Posts Tagged ‘nectar’

Enchanting Grevillea ‘Superb’

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

I know I have written a post before about these beautiful tropical Grevilleas, but they are just stunning at the moment!

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I don’t think there is actually a time of year when they are not flowering. The Wattle birds just love them and are continually foraging the flowers for nectar.

Grevillea ‘Superb’ is actually a hybrid of a QLD Grevillea, ‘Grevillea banksii’ and a W.A Grevillea, Grevillea bipinnatifida’. Now the QLD Grevillea actually has white flowers, whilst the W.A one has red, therefore the hybrid of Grevillea ‘Superb’ has these enchanting salmon pink coloured flowers.

This Grevillea is just so hardy and it even tolerates the moderate frosts we get here too! Because it only grows to around 1.5 to 2 metres high it is the perfect plant for many gardens.