{"title":"Grevillea","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-four listings, and flower colour will not tell you which one you are buying. The split is twelve low or ground-hugging plants, ten shrubs, one forest tree, and one shrub grafted onto a clear trunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHalf the range lies on the ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix run flat. Only three strike roots as they travel and knit into a self-repairing mat, which decides the plant count on a batter. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-poorinda-royal-mantle\"\u003ePoorinda Royal Mantle\u003c\/a\u003e is the landscape workhorse for car park islands and long mulched strips, and the one groundcover here that takes a wider range of soils, though it sulks in permanently wet clay. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-gaudichaudi\"\u003eGaudiChaudi\u003c\/a\u003e travels for metres while staying ankle deep, with soft bronze-red new growth. Gin Gin Gem does a similar job and is the Western Australian one of the three, so it wants gritty soil and a mound, not improved mix. Green Carpet, Forest Rambler and the prostrate Grevillea banksii sold as Red Silky Oak run flat too, but cover by plant numbers and spacing, so order enough to close the gaps and keep mulch off their crowns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix more sit low without forming a mat: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Border Red, Mini Marvel, thelmanniana, Woolly Grevillea and its dwarf selection Mt Tamboritha. The last two are high country plants out of Victoria and New South Wales, reliable through Melbourne, Canberra and the tablelands, and both are unreliable through a humid summer, which can take a healthy plant in a week. Woolly Grevillea varies from low mound to near prostrate, so judge the plant in front of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe shrubs, and the two that are not\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen listings make shrubs, from a low prickly barrier to a screening line. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-olivacea-red\"\u003eGrevillea olivacea Red\u003c\/a\u003e is the odd one out, with blunt olive-like leaves instead of ferny ones, and in Western Australia it is a standard informal hedge and windbreak plant on limestone and exposed coastal blocks. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-juniperina-stripy\"\u003eGrevillea juniperina Stripy\u003c\/a\u003e is its opposite: tablelands stock from New South Wales that takes hard frost and grows in the sort of cold, tight clay that kills the western species outright. Winpara Gem handles salt wind. Ellendale Dragon has no published parentage, so judge it on performance. Gilt Dragon is a Western Australian preissii selection, prickly and grey-green, and another that wants gritty soil and a mound. Lilliane screens at eye level and is worth training properly. Pink Profusion is bought for dense twiggy cover as much as flower. Apricot Glow and New Blood are the colour picks. Red Hooks makes ten, and it is Western Australian too, so on the humid east coast it goes high on a mound or not at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-robusta\"\u003eSilky Oak\u003c\/a\u003e is the outlier: a fast canopy tree for acreage and windbreaks that will pass power lines; pruning will not hold it at shrub height. Watch the name: Red Silky Oak is the prostrate banksii above, not this tree. The Grevillea spp. Assorted Standards arrive as a foliage head on a clear trunk in a 330mm pot, as assorted varieties, so order a full row at once if you want it matched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhich grade to buy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStock is weighted small: twenty-one of the twenty-four begin at 150mm or under, and fifteen offer a 140mm. Only three start larger, Pink Profusion and Mt Tamboritha at 5L and the standards. Just four listings carry a grade above 250mm, two of them the tree and the standards. So \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-hookeriana-red-hooks\"\u003eGrevillea hookeriana Red Hooks\u003c\/a\u003e, which runs to 90L, is effectively the only shrub you can buy here at screening height, once it is up on that mound, and GaudiChaudi at 330mm the only advanced groundcover. Two listings drop to 70mm tubes, about a fifth of a litre: Woolly Grevillea and Forest Rambler, for a bank that needs numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a native that clips to a flat formal face, try \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/westringia\"\u003ewestringia\u003c\/a\u003e instead. For drainage, feeding and pruning, read the guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"grevillea-apricot-glow","title":"Grevillea Apricot Glow","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough grevilleas have a reputation for dying young, most losses come down to two avoidable things: phosphorus and drainage. Apricot Glow is no exception. Feed it with a low phosphorus native fertiliser or nothing at all, and plant it where water moves away from the crown, on a slope or a raised bed if the soil is heavy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet that right and you have an evergreen shrub carrying apricot toned flowers over a long season, with the nectar load that brings honeyeaters and wattlebirds into a garden. Growth is moderate to fast, and it is happiest in full sun; in shade it thins out and stops flowering. Water needs fall away to low once the roots are established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pruning rule for this genus is worth learning properly. Tip prune lightly and often from the day it goes in. Grevilleas rarely reshoot from bare old wood, so a hard cut back into leafless stems on a neglected plant usually kills the branch rather than rejuvenating it. Useful for screening and native mixed plantings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 140mm up to 250mm, priced from $16.95 to $59.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64308925301105,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308925333873,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308925366641,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308925399409,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/VcG1SOZoAmBcaEZZILZpP_SOQigav0.jpg?v=1787628150"},{"product_id":"grevillea-banksii-prostrate-red","title":"Red Silky Oak - Grevillea banksii prostrate Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost Grevillea banksii in cultivation grow as upright large shrubs, so the prostrate red form catches people out. It runs sideways along the ground rather than up, throwing long horizontal limbs clothed in deeply divided, ferny leaves that are dark above and silvery-felted beneath. The flower brushes are the same heavy terminal spikes as the tall form, in deep red, held upright above the foliage and worked over by honeyeaters through the warmer months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it over a dry embankment, spilling from a raised bed, or as rough cover under established eucalypts. It wants full sun, sharp drainage and very little water once the roots are down. Two cautions worth knowing. The leaf and flower hairs irritate some people's skin, so wear sleeves when pruning. And in humid coastal gardens on heavy soil this species can collapse quickly from root rot, so mound the planting hole and keep mulch off the stem. Avoid phosphorus-rich fertilisers, including most lawn and rose products.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $28.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308925858161,"sku":null,"price":28.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/kHVssRIuGU5ybpZRC9S_d_1Nn4Ej1C.jpg?v=1787628151"},{"product_id":"grevillea-border-red","title":"Grevillea Border Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eBred for the front of a garden bed rather than the back of one, Border Red is a low, spreading grevillea that stays around knee height and covers ground steadily instead of shooting upward. The fine, narrow foliage gives it an almost heath-like texture, and small red spider flowers sit close in among the leaves where wrens and smaller honeyeaters can reach them under cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt earns its place edging a driveway, softening the top of a retaining wall, or planted in drifts of three or five along a hot northern boundary. Full sun is not negotiable, since in shade it opens up and flowers poorly. Give it drainage above everything else, water through the first summer only, then tip prune lightly after each flush to hold the habit dense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkip phosphorus fertilisers. If a plant starts yellowing in a heavy clay bed, drainage rather than feeding is almost always the real problem, so lift the bed rather than reaching for the fertiliser bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $17.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308926710129,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/KC5GaMPvBv2y-RxV96obi_xf1Q8MV7.jpg?v=1787628213"},{"product_id":"grevillea-ellendale-dragon","title":"Grevillea Ellendale Dragon","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot every grevillea in the trade carries a published parentage, and Ellendale Dragon is one of those garden hybrids better judged by how it performs than by its pedigree. What you can rely on is the genus behind it: evergreen foliage year round, nectar-rich flowers that pull honeyeaters and wattlebirds close to the house, and a firm preference for open sun and free-draining ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is supplied in 130mm and 140mm pots, which is genuinely the better way to establish grevilleas. Small plants root out into surrounding soil faster and commonly overtake a larger potted specimen within two seasons, so buy small and plant well rather than the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet it slightly proud of the surrounding soil so water moves away from the crown, mulch with coarse bark rather than anything that holds moisture against the stem, and water deeply but rarely after the first summer. Prune after flowering, taking a little from every branch instead of cutting hard into bare old wood, which grevilleas are reluctant to reshoot from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 130mm up to 140mm, priced from $16.95 to $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308929266033,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311646814577,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/W4zAJUkj1tN_bQ3MrFUOA_DSocp0HQ.jpg?v=1787628150"},{"product_id":"grevillea-gaudichaudi","title":"Grevillea GaudiChaudi","description":"\u003cp\u003eRun your hand over the new growth and you will find it soft, bronze-red and lobed like a small oak leaf, which is the quickest way to pick Grevillea gaudichaudii out of a nursery row. This is a genuinely prostrate hybrid, a cross of G. acanthifolia and G. laurifolia, and it spreads sideways for metres while staying only ankle deep, layering itself down wherever a stem meets moist soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are one-sided toothbrushes in deep maroon to burgundy, mostly through the cooler months into spring, sitting on the surface of the mat where they are easy to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a bank and batter plant first and foremost: hillsides, embankments, the awkward strip above a retaining wall, or tumbling over rock. Give it sun, decent drainage and room, because it will not sit politely in a small pocket. Its weakness is prolonged wet in heavy soil, where the older centre can rot out. Trim runners back at the edge rather than shearing the whole plant over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 140mm up to 330mm, priced from $17.95 to $149.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64308930314609,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64308930347377,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308930380145,"sku":null,"price":31.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308930412913,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/yvCyi-wUOmBMopTa-6mhy_z4qRnNPO.jpg?v=1787628215"},{"product_id":"grevillea-hookeriana-red-hooks","title":"Grevillea hookeriana Red Hooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eWestern Australian in origin, Grevillea hookeriana carries fine, deeply divided foliage on an upright and fairly dense shrub, and its flowers are the toothbrush type: one-sided combs of deep red with dark protruding styles held along the branches through winter and spring. Red Hooks is selected for that strong flower colour. Honeyeaters work it hard, and it starts flowering young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause it is offered from a 140mm pot right up to advanced 90 litre stock, it covers both jobs: a long informal screen planted small and grown on, or an instant privacy line where you need height in the first season. Space plants so air moves between them, since crowded specimens in humid country are the ones that die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the honest caveat on the east coast. This species comes from a dry winter rainfall climate and resents humid, wet summers on clay. Plant high on a mound, avoid overhead watering in the muggy months, keep phosphorus away from it, and prune lightly after each flush rather than cutting into leafless wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 300mm, priced from $16.95 to $88.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? 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New Blood is a garden hybrid grown for richly coloured flower heads held against ferny, finely divided evergreen foliage, and like most grevilleas of this type it throws a main flush and then keeps producing scattered heads across much of the year, which is exactly what makes it valuable to honeyeaters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it the sunniest, best-drained position you have. It suits a hot western fence line, a native mixed border, or a large pot on paving where drainage is guaranteed. Water it through the first summer, then back right off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical notes. Prune lightly and often, taking spent flower heads with a short length of stem behind them, because grevilleas rarely reshoot from bare old wood once you let it get away. And keep phosphorus off, which rules out most rose and lawn fertilisers; a native-specific low-phosphorus slow release is the safe choice if you feed at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 130mm up to 5L, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? 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Stripy is a selected garden form of that species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are short, sharp and needle-like, which is where the juniper name comes from, and they make the plant genuinely prickly to handle. Spider flowers cluster along the stems through the cooler months, and small birds shelter and nest inside the thorny framework, so it doubles as habitat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant it as a low informal hedge, a barrier along a fence line, or a bird refuge in a native bed. Full sun keeps it dense. Wear gloves and long sleeves when pruning, and shape it little and often rather than cutting back into leafless wood. We deliver to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, flat $99 freight with a $399 minimum order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $22.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308932968817,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/ZURonIwodPK5x3SwqjF5J_9TT1GjNv.jpg?v=1787628150"},{"product_id":"grevillea-lan-mt-tamboritha","title":"Grevillea lan Mt Tamboritha","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dwarf, woolly-leaved selection of the Victorian high country species Grevillea lanigera, Mt Tamboritha stays low and mounded, spreading wider than it is tall and rarely climbing past shin height. The small grey-green leaves are covered in fine hairs, which gives the whole plant a soft, faintly silver look even out of flower, and the pink and cream spider flowers appear mainly through the cooler months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCold suits it. It handles frost and exposed, cool sites better than almost anything else in the genus, which is why it turns up in rockeries, alpine-style plantings, low borders and cascading over walls in southern gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumidity is its undoing. In warm, humid summer rainfall areas a plant can look healthy one week and be dead the next, taken by root rot at the crown. Plant it high, use gravel or coarse mulch rather than fine damp material against the stems, keep it in full sun, and resist the urge to water an established plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64308934934897,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/KtjqN10arUWytyiHcnNZf_7g0wANSR.jpg?v=1787628214"},{"product_id":"grevillea-obtusifolia-gin-gin-gem","title":"Grevillea obtusifolia Gin Gin Gem","description":"\u003cp\u003eShoppers often land here after looking at Poorinda Royal Mantle, and the two do a similar job. Gin Gin Gem is a Western Australian selection of Grevillea obtusifolia that runs flat across the ground, layering as it goes and striking roots where the stems touch soil. That makes it useful on batters, over the top of retaining walls and as a living mulch under taller natives, where it covers ground fast enough to hold weeds down. The leaves are small, blunt tipped and dark, and red toothbrush flowers sit tight against the foliage through the cooler months, bringing honeyeaters down to knee height.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catch is drainage and humidity. Western grevilleas resent wet feet and a muggy summer, so on the coast plant it high, on a mound or a slope, into gritty soil rather than rich improved mix. Use native fertiliser only; phosphorus yellows it first and kills it later. Full sun keeps the mat dense, while shade makes it thin out and reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 125mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? 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It builds into a dense, rounded shrub that holds cover right to the ground, and the red form carries clusters of curved spider flowers along the stems from late winter into spring, when little else in a native bed is doing much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Western Australia it is a standard informal hedge and windbreak plant, at home on limestone and on exposed coastal blocks where salt-laden wind shreds softer shrubs. It shapes reasonably well for a grevillea if you trim after flowering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, drainage decides everything. This is a dry winter rainfall species, and in humid eastern gardens on clay it is prone to sudden collapse from root rot, so plant on a raised mound, keep mulch clear of the trunk, and avoid summer irrigation once it is established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 250mm, priced from $16.95 to $59.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308945224049,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311660478833,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/grWJ0cprnKc_FUkMcKXB-_dOZ8jrvk.jpg?v=1787628152"},{"product_id":"grevillea-poorinda-royal-mantle","title":"Grevillea Poorinda Royal Mantle","description":"\u003cp\u003eCouncils and landscapers have leaned on Poorinda Royal Mantle for decades, and the reason is coverage. This old Australian hybrid runs flat across the ground, rooting down as it travels, and a single plant will eventually blanket several square metres of embankment with overlapping, deeply lobed dark green leaves. New growth flushes bronze-red, and deep red toothbrush flowers sit on the surface of the mat, mostly through the cooler months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the plant for a batter too steep to mow, a car park island, the top of a rock wall, or long mulched strips where weeds would otherwise win. Once it knits together, very little gets through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun and reasonable drainage. It accepts a wider range of soils than most grevilleas but still sulks in permanently wet clay. Plant at generous spacing and be patient rather than crowding, and cut stray runners back at the edge instead of shearing over the top, which leaves bare woody patches that are slow to recover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308946895217,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/ovI4lcBrjp6a0gzvoPKWW_sNbo71p0.jpg?v=1787628215"},{"product_id":"grevillea-winpara-gem","title":"Grevillea Winpara Gem","description":"\u003cp\u003eTip prune it lightly after each flowering flush and this shrub stays dense for years. Skip that and you end up with a hollow woody middle and flowers only on the outside skin of the plant. Winpara Gem is a hybrid grevillea with grey green, finely divided foliage and coral to salmon spider flowers carried over a very long season, heaviest through the cooler months, and honeyeaters find it within days of planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt builds into a rounded, medium sized shrub, dense enough to use as an informal screen or a loosely clipped native hedge. Coastal tolerance is genuine, taking salt wind and sandy soils better than most grevilleas, and it sits through dry spells once established. Related selections such as Winpara Gold differ mainly in flower colour, so plant a run of one rather than mixing them and losing the effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull sun; shade makes it leggy and cuts flowering hard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLow phosphorus native fertiliser only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeep mulch pulled back off the stem to avoid collar rot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 140mm up to 250mm, priced from $16.95 to $59.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64308953252209,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64308953284977,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308953317745,"sku":null,"price":35.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308953350513,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311660347761,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/HiHoDMcRr4ivX1y3Pi2hY_UyOwHFNN.jpg?v=1787628214"},{"product_id":"grevillea-robusta","title":"Silky Oak - Grevillea robusta","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilky oak makes a tall, straight tree with a narrow crown when young, gaining height quickly, and it will pass power lines and dwarf a small block long before it slows down. The foliage carries it outside flowering, finely divided and fern like, dark green above with a silvery grey reverse that shows in any wind. In spring the canopy fills with one sided golden orange racemes, the familiar toothbrush shape, and lorikeets work them noisily. It belongs on acreage, in windbreaks and in large native plantings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRoom, wind and the mistake that cannot be undone\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts home range is coastal and near coastal Queensland and northern New South Wales, and it has since proved itself across most warm parts of the country, tolerating heat, poor soil and long dry spells. Full sun, and reasonable drainage; it is not fussy about soil type. Young trees want shelter from hard frost, after which they look after themselves. The failure with this species is almost never cultural, it is siting. Planted a few metres from a house, over a driveway or under a suburban service line, it becomes a problem tree that gets topped, and a topped silky oak throws long weak regrowth on brittle timber that breaks in the next storm. Give it room to reach full size on the day you plant it, well clear of buildings, paving and wires, and do not plant it where the answer in ten years will be a chainsaw at head height. On acreage, plant in a line as a windbreak so the trees shelter each other and grow straighter for it. Established trees are dry tolerant enough for a paddock with no irrigation, and the canopy holds foliage year round, though it thins noticeably in flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe upright tree or the low rambler\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two grevilleas here are opposites in every dimension that matters. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-forest-rambler\"\u003eForest Rambler\u003c\/a\u003e is a low spreading plant for banks, wall edges and the front of a bed, flowering through the cooler months and staying close to the ground. Silky oak is a canopy tree that flowers in spring and needs a paddock, a drive or a large native planting. If you want grevillea flowers and honeyeaters in a courtyard or small front garden, take the rambler. If you are planting shade, shelter or a windbreak on land, this is the one, and it is stocked in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/advanced-trees\"\u003eadvanced grades\u003c\/a\u003e for a head start. There is no middle option here, so do not order silky oak intending to keep it small: pruning will not hold a forest tree at shrub height, and trying produces the weak regrowth described above.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShaping the leader, and covering your arms\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune early and lightly to establish one dominant leader, removing competing stems while they are still thin, because a tree allowed to fork low carries a weak union into maturity and that is where storm damage starts. Lift the lower branches over several seasons for clearance, and do not top a mature tree. Wear long sleeves and gloves whenever you prune or handle the sawdust, which irritates skin. Feeding is rarely necessary, and when it is, use a native fertiliser labelled low phosphorus, since the Proteaceae are burnt by the phosphorus in ordinary garden products. Rake fallen leaves and spent flowers off paths, where they are slippery after rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 150mm up to 200L, priced from $16.95 to $1209.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311404986737,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311405052273,"sku":null,"price":1209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311405117809,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311405150577,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311405183345,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311405216113,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"35L","offer_id":64446162043249,"sku":null,"price":189.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64446162076017,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-southern-silky-oak-tree-grevillea-robusta_6c625307-0673-4886-8160-59ed51926d80.png?v=1785551741"},{"product_id":"grevillea-bonnie-prince-charlie","title":"Spider Flower - Grevillea Bonnie Prince Charlie","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost red-flowered grevillea hybrids sold in Australia trace back to a handful of the same parents, and telling them apart on a nursery bench is close to impossible. Bonnie Prince Charlie is the low, wide-spreading one: fine grey-green divided foliage on lax stems, with pendulous red spider flowers appearing through the cooler months and returning in flushes at other times. Honeyeaters work it hard. It suits the front of a native bed, the top of a retaining wall, or a bank where you want cover without height.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo things kill it. The first is phosphorus, so keep ordinary rose and citrus fertilisers well away and use a native blend or nothing at all. The second is wet feet in heavy clay, which is why it is far happier on a raised or gravelly bed than in compacted new-estate soil. Tip prune lightly after each flush; cutting back into bare old wood usually will not reshoot. Full sun keeps it dense, and once the roots are down it asks for very little water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 5L, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311405871473,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311405904241,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311405937009,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/NN60GS-0swyOUgxemisMb_1KHhTVah.jpg?v=1787629356"},{"product_id":"grevillea-forest-rambler","title":"Spider Flower - Grevillea Forest Rambler","description":"\u003cp\u003eForest Rambler runs sideways rather than up, a low evergreen grevillea that spreads over the ground on wiry stems and hides the soil under fine divided foliage. Small spider flowers appear through the cooler months, when nectar is scarce, and honeyeaters and other small birds work the planting at knee height where they feel safe. The obvious uses are a batter or bank that needs holding, the top of a retaining wall where growth can spill over, and the front edge of a native bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFull sun, free drainage and the bag of fertiliser to leave shut\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant for open positions in full sun with soil that drains freely. It takes dry conditions once established, and in most southern gardens it will get through summer on rainfall alone. Heavy clay is the problem site: mound the bed, work coarse gravel or sand through the planting soil, and keep mulch pulled back from the crown so the base stays dry. The one thing that reliably kills it is the fertiliser bag. Grevilleas belong to the Proteaceae, and the phosphorus in ordinary lawn, vegetable and rose fertilisers burns their fine proteoid roots, so a plant given the same feed as the rest of the garden yellows, drops leaves and collapses inside a season. Feed a native product labelled low phosphorus or feed nothing, and watch where lawn fertiliser and runoff finish up. Space plants to knit together within a season or two rather than crowding, and let them mesh into continuous cover rather than separate mounds. Frost is tolerated in most temperate gardens, and coastal exposure is no obstacle where drainage is sharp. On a batter, plant across the slope rather than down it, so the cover slows water instead of channelling it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGroundcover grevillea or timber tree\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other grevillea in this range, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-robusta\"\u003esilky oak\u003c\/a\u003e, shares the family, the bird traffic and the phosphorus sensitivity, and shares nothing else. That one is a fast canopy tree for acreage; this one covers ground and stays where you put it. If your brief is erosion control, bank planting, verges or a low native border, Forest Rambler is the one to order in quantity. For a wind facing coastal bank where salt is the main pressure, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/coastal-rosemary-westringia-fruticosa-1\"\u003ecoastal rosemary\u003c\/a\u003e is the steadier mass planting, with the rambler used behind it for flower and bird value. Flowering time is the other split worth knowing: the rambler works through the cooler months when small honeyeaters are short of nectar, while silky oak puts everything into a spring display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTip pruning while it is still young\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStart tip pruning in the first year and keep at it after each flush, taking the growing points back by a small amount to force branching low down. Grevilleas reshoot poorly from bare old wood, so a plant left unpruned for years cannot be renovated, and a hard cut into leafless stems usually kills it outright. Trim lightly and often instead. Feed in early spring with a low phosphorus native fertiliser only if growth is weak, and water through the first summer to get the root system down before the plant is left to itself. Mulch with coarse chunky material rather than fine compost, which holds moisture against the stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 70mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $36.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? 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Clusters of pink and cream spider flowers sit tight against the foliage through the cooler months, when little else native is doing much, and small honeyeaters work them constantly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a cool climate species from the high country of Victoria and New South Wales, so it is one of the more frost hardy grevilleas and does well in Melbourne, Canberra, the tablelands and southern gardens generally. In humid subtropical summers it is far less reliable and can collapse without warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForms vary from low mounding shrubs to near prostrate ground covers, so judge the plant in front of you rather than assuming a size. Sharp drainage, full sun, no phosphorus, and light tip pruning after flowering. Avoid cutting back into leafless old wood, because it rarely reshoots from there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 70mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $34.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? 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Green Carpet spreads low and wide with fine foliage, knitting across bare ground, tumbling over retaining walls and covering the awkward soil in front of taller natives. Small nectar rich flowers sit down among the leaves and bring honeyeaters and small birds in close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wants full sun and free draining ground, and once established it asks for very little water. Two rules matter. Do not feed it with a standard complete fertiliser, because the phosphorus in most blends burns grevillea roots; use a native formulation or nothing at all. And do not pile mulch or soil over the centre of the plant, since buried stems and a wet crown are the usual reason one collapses suddenly through a humid summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTip prune lightly after each flush to keep the mat dense rather than woody and open in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311461118321,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/yEgA6WUFoW6t1RAPAnaJ_9dTaIZYl.jpg?v=1787629645"},{"product_id":"grevillea-spp-assorted-standards","title":"Spider Flower - Grevillea spp. Assorted Standards","description":"\u003cp\u003eA standard is an ordinary shrub grown or grafted onto a single clear trunk, so what turns up in a 330mm pot is a ball of grevillea foliage on a stick, ready to flank a gate or run down the middle of a driveway strip. This line is supplied as assorted varieties, so flower colour and leaf type vary with what is ready to go. Order the full run in one go if you need a matched row.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrafted grevilleas are commonly worked onto a rootstock chosen for tolerance of heavier and more alkaline soils, which is why standards often succeed in gardens where own root plants quietly fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStake the trunk for the first couple of seasons. Wind rocks the head and the graft union is the weak point.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRub off every shoot on the trunk or below the graft, or the rootstock will outgrow the top.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrune the head lightly after each flush to keep it round rather than one sided, and use a low phosphorus native fertiliser only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 330mm, at $379.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311495754097,"sku":null,"price":379.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/gUGCYkrMKmcRvszwf9J4__aZa5lqDC.jpg?v=1787629998"},{"product_id":"grevillea-lilliane","title":"Spider Flower - Grevillea Lilliane","description":"\u003cp\u003eLilliane is a shrubby, bird attracting grevillea with fine, divided, needle like foliage and a moderate to fast rate of growth that fills a gap quickly. Its distinctive feature is a long flowering season through the cooler months, when spider type flower clusters open along the stems and honeyeaters, wattlebirds and smaller nectar feeders work them over daily. It is planted as an informal screen along a fence, as a repeated shrub through a native bed, or as the nectar source in a garden planted deliberately for birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSoil, phosphorus and the fertiliser bag\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, and soil that drains freely. Those two conditions carry most of the result. It suits temperate and subtropical gardens, tolerates dry spells once established, and needs only occasional deep watering through its first couple of summers to get roots down. Mound the bed if the ground is clay, keep mulch thin over the crown rather than heaped against the stems, and do not enrich the soil heavily before planting. Set plants far enough apart that air moves between them, since a crowded row holds humidity and loses its lower foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe failure mode is phosphorus. Grevilleas and their relatives evolved on old, phosphorus poor Australian soils and cannot regulate their uptake of it, so a standard lawn food, a rose fertiliser or a spread of poultry manure anywhere near the root zone burns the roots and yellows or kills the plant within weeks. Use a native or low phosphorus fertiliser only, and keep lawn feeding well clear of the bed. Wet feet finish off the plants phosphorus misses, so drainage comes first and feeding second.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLilliane against the other bird plants\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo other natives here draw the same birds. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/correa-alba\"\u003eCorrea alba\u003c\/a\u003e is lower, denser and salt tolerant, better on a coastal front boundary or as a clipped low hedge, but it will never screen anything. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/wattle-acacia-floribunda\"\u003eAcacia floribunda\u003c\/a\u003e grows far faster and gets far taller, and it is the pick if you need cover within one or two seasons, at the cost of a short life and a crop of seedlings. Lilliane sits between them: tall enough to screen at eye level, long lived enough to be worth training properly, and flowering when the birds most need it. Plant all three together and the garden carries nectar across most of the year. See the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/natives\"\u003enatives range\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTip pruning little and often\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStart tip pruning the day it goes in, taking a few centimetres off every few months through the growing season rather than making one hard cut a year. Each tip cut forces two or three shoots lower down, which is how a grevillea stays dense instead of becoming a woody frame carrying flowers only at the ends. Reshooting from bare old wood is unreliable, so never cut back past the leafy growth. Feed after the main flowering flush with a slow release native fertiliser and water it in. Renew mulch annually, keeping it thin over the crown. Do not shear it like a hedge, since flat cuts across the foliage brown off and stay visible for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 5L, priced from $22.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311501193585,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311501226353,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-lilliane-grevillea-grevillea-lilliane-20260609_ad87ce92-00c1-43fe-b7dd-1dcf8fec9703.png?v=1785552100"},{"product_id":"grevillea-thelmanniana","title":"Spider Net Grevillea - Grevillea thelmanniana","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea thelmanniana comes out of Western Australia and behaves like it: fine, deeply divided grey-green foliage on low spreading branches, and clusters of pink to red spider flowers carried through the cooler half of the year and often on and off besides. Honeyeaters find it fast, and because the flowers sit low it is one of the better ones for watching birds up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharp drainage is the whole game. On the east coast it is humidity and heavy wet soil that kill it, not cold, so put it on a slope, a raised bed or a gravelly mound rather than flat clay, and keep mulch off the crown. Grafted plants on a hardier rootstock cope with eastern conditions far better than plants on their own roots, so check the graft union sits above soil level. Use a low phosphorus native fertiliser or none at all, tip prune lightly after each flush to keep it dense, and treat it as a fast, generous, relatively short lived plant rather than permanent structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311509680497,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/key8kcjc35xBRDqz_LgPm_eLVKhIso.jpg?v=1787630238"},{"product_id":"grevillea-pink-profusion-pbr","title":"Spider Flower - Grevillea Pink Profusion PBR","description":"\u003cp\u003eBirds find this one quickly. Pink Profusion carries pink spider flowers over a long season on a shrubby, well branched frame, and the combination of nectar and dense twiggy cover is what small honeyeaters and silvereyes actually need, not just a feed but somewhere safe to sit while they take it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrown in full sun it makes a useful informal screen, or a native hedge that will never want to be a formal one. Prune it, but prune it properly: shorten the growth that has just flowered, take a little and often, and never cut back into bare old wood, because grevilleas are reluctant to reshoot from it. Skip standard garden fertiliser and use a low phosphorus native blend or nothing at all; phosphorus toxicity shows up as blackened leaf tips and a slow decline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce established it runs on very little water, though drainage matters more than rainfall and it will not tolerate sitting in a wet hollow. Some people find the foliage irritating to handle, so keep gloves nearby when you prune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $30.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311510434161,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/kVzoAYqsqQKUCJTccc0gO_zVmFEAIy.jpg?v=1787630239"},{"product_id":"grevillea-thel-mini-marvel","title":"Spider Net Grevillea - Grevillea thel. Mini Marvel","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnlike the tall screening grevilleas that end up as three metre thickets, Mini Marvel is a compact form from the Grevillea thelemanniana group, built low and wide with fine, deeply divided grey green foliage. The spider flowers sit close to the foliage in warm red tones and bring honeyeaters in at eye level rather than up in a canopy, which is part of why it gets used along paths and in courtyards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrainage decides everything with these. In heavy clay or a bed that stays damp, root rot will take it out quietly over a wet season, so mound the soil or work in coarse material before planting. Full sun keeps it dense; shade makes it open and sparse. Feed with a native blend low in phosphorus, and tip prune lightly after each flush rather than cutting into old bare wood, which grevilleas are slow to reshoot from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivery is a flat $99 to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA on orders over $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311512269169,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/PXd-Z8vEs9PCeWjXeI9d7_Xs8cjEzT.jpg?v=1787630242"},{"product_id":"grevillea-preissii-gilt-dragon","title":"Spider Flower - Grevillea Preissii Gilt Dragon","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive this one sharp drainage and it will do things the common east coast grevilleas cannot. Grevillea preissii is a Western Australian species with finely divided, slightly prickly grey-green foliage and clusters of deep red flowers with long protruding styles, carried through the cooler months and worked over constantly by honeyeaters. Gilt Dragon is a named form of it, kept for foliage character and flower colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant makes an upright to spreading evergreen shrub, useful in a low screen, a bird garden or a dry native bed, growing at a moderate to fast rate in full sun on low water once established. The failures are predictable: humid summer air and poorly drained soil bring on root rot, and phosphorus-rich fertiliser will damage it, so use a native blend or nothing at all. Gravel mulch and a raised bed suit it far better than heavy bark. Tip prune from a young age rather than cutting into bare old wood. Flat $99 delivery, minimum order $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311513350513,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/WPi65A7VmdQuh-WltLORn_SGtMAry0.jpg?v=1787630280"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/collections\/plantdrop-lilliane-grevillea-grevillea-lilliane-20260609_ad87ce92-00c1-43fe-b7dd-1dcf8fec9703.png?v=1787348920","url":"https:\/\/plantdrop.com.au\/collections\/grevillea.oembed","provider":"Plant Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}