One of the most spectacular flowering plants in my garden would have to be the native Grevillea ‘Superb’.
It is a fairly common Grevillea and many people have it in their gardens because of it’s wonderful hardiness. It can tolerate light frosts and very open exposed conditions on tough, gravelly soil.
It also flowers just about all year round and the nectar feeding birds just love it! Sometimes the flowers really do droop down quite heavily as they are so laden with nectar.
The bush grows to around 1.5 metres in height and also about the same in width. It is classified as a ‘tropical’ Grevillea, although I am not really sure why. It may be because it looks like a tropical kind of plant or because it actually originates from the more tropical regions of our country.
There are now just heaps of these fantastic tropical type Grevilleas being bred. All with amazing flowers and colours ranging from brilliant red, pink, intense yellow, lemon all the way to white. Some of them have amazing names like ‘Gypsy Moon’,'Majestic’, and ‘Honey Gem’.
One of my personal favourites that is also one of the foremost cultivars is ‘Ned Kelly’. Named after Australia’s notorious bush ranger.
