{"product_id":"ned-kelly-grevillea-grevillea-ned-kelly","title":"Ned Kelly Grevillea - Grevillea Ned Kelly","description":"\u003cp\u003eNed Kelly carries the hottest colour in the Robyn Gordon group. It comes from the same kind of cross, Grevillea bipinnatifida with Grevillea banksii, and some nurseries label it Mason's Hybrid, but its large flower heads are a glowing orange red rather than crimson, and they keep coming in flushes through almost every month of the year. The leaves are deeply lobed and fern like, and the plant forms a rounded, spreading shrub, wider than it is tall, that fits a suburban front garden without crowding the path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a warm climate plant. It is happiest in Queensland and coastal New South Wales, where it handles a wet, sticky February that would rot many western species, and it is the one to reach for when you want colour, birds and low water use against a hot north or west facing wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA hot wall and a dry root zone\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant it in full sun. In shade the shrub thins out and flowers sparsely, and the honeyeaters move on to a better fed plant down the street. Any soil that drains will do: sandy loam, decomposed granite or a raised bed of ordinary garden soil all suit it, while a clay hollow that stays wet through a rainy summer is where it fails, usually through root rot that browns the plant from one side. Frost blackens the soft new tips, so in a cold pocket or on the tablelands, set it against a wall or under the eaves where frost cannot settle. Against a hot wall the soil dries quickly, so give it a deep soak twice a week through the first summer; from the second year it gets by on rain, with a drink in a heatwave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Robyn Gordon and the other banksii hybrids, Ned Kelly can raise an itchy rash, occasionally with blisters, on sensitive skin, and sensitivity can build with repeated handling, so put gloves on and roll your sleeves down before pruning, and wash your arms afterwards. Expect ten years or so of good flowering from one plant: when the base turns woody and bare, replacing it is quicker and more reliable than trying to rejuvenate it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOrange red beside the crimson original\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext to \u003ca href=\"\/products\/robyn-gordon-grevillea-grevillea-bipinnatifida-x-banksii-robyn-gordon\"\u003eRobyn Gordon Grevillea\u003c\/a\u003e, the deep red original, Ned Kelly's heads are warmer and read from further away; \u003ca href=\"\/products\/superb-grevillea-grevillea-bipinnatifida-x-banksii-alba-superb\"\u003eSuperb Grevillea\u003c\/a\u003e takes the same frame into apricot orange with a pink flush. Ned Kelly suits a scheme built on hot colour: it stands out against lawn, dark fences and green walls, and it sits well with yellow flowered natives, silver foliage and the blue of a fan flower edging. The wider choice, from groundcovers to trees, is in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/grevillea\"\u003eGrevillea\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLight, regular trims and the right fertiliser\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune after each main flush, cutting finished flower heads back to the first good leaves below them; that keeps the shrub dense and brings the next round of flowers on sooner. A light trim all over in late winter tidies a plant that has grown lopsided. Keep cuts within the leafy growth, where the plant recovers fastest. For fertiliser, use only a native blend labelled low phosphorus, at half the label rate, in early spring: grevilleas evolved in phosphorus poor soils, and the doses in general purpose, rose and lawn products poison them. Against a wall, a gravel mulch keeps the stem dry where bark would hold damp against it. Scale, and the sooty mould that follows it, occasionally turn up on stressed plants; a spray of horticultural oil deals with the scale, and the black film washes off over a few weeks once the insects that fed it are gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 300mm up to 25L, priced from $109.00 to $119.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These mid-range sizes balance establishment speed against immediate presence, and they are the usual choice for general garden planting. 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":"300mm","offer_id":67671405887857,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25L","offer_id":67671405953393,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/ned-kelly-grevillea-grevillea-ned-kelly.jpg?v=1791520168","url":"https:\/\/plantdrop.com.au\/products\/ned-kelly-grevillea-grevillea-ned-kelly","provider":"Plant Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}