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Family: Proteaceae
Native to: Australia
Dimensions: to around 8' tall, 10' wide
Cold resistance: hardy to 10°F, or perhaps slightly below; especially in hot climates
Drought resistance: moderate, not for desert
Key Features: red flowers over very long season (sometimes almost year-round), blooms all winter, attracts hummingbirds, fast and easy to grow
Uses: urban gardens, coastal gardens, feature plant, hummingbird plant, wall or border shrub, deer resistant, easy.
Description:
This sturdy, adaptable and long-blooming shrub is one of the best Grevilleas we can grow in the Northwest and deserves much wider use. It will draw hummingbirds to the garden all winter long. A Xera Plants selection, where it occurred as a chance seedling, it grows quickly 8' tall with greater spread. Showing an excellent combination of cold-hardiness, vigor, and floral display, it looks a bit like the older cultivar G. victoriae 'Marshall Olbrich' with linear leaves to about 2"; but is arguably superior, having much denser foliage and being less floppy; also the flowers are larger.
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