proteas

rather than continue to post in with other threads, just thought i's start one showing pics of various protea family plants i've had flower in my garden over the years

 

I like the plant in the last picture Bodster, have you a name for it please?

 

sure its grevillea juniperina. very hardy and easy to grow. you need a big space for it though. miner got to six feet high by ten feet across before it collapaed under its own weight. fortunately the come back again even after extreme pruning!

 

Very nice.
Where abouts do you live?

 

southampton. most winters are fairly mild here but we had a coupoe of really bad ones in the last few years

 

No 4 looks like a Banksia.
Do you still have it?/ did it last long?

 

yes its banksia giant candles. i still have it but it was dufficult to protect outside so its now in the conservatory in a big pot

 

here is how i was protecting the banksia outside. the trouble was i didn't get to admire the flowers under the cover

 

heres banksia integrifolia which is supposed to be a lt hardier

 

If I could just add, I had a very similar Grevillea to that, it came under the name of G. "canberra gem".
I found it quite hardy and vigorous.

 

yes grevillea canberra gem is a hybrid of grevillea juniperina and grevilea rosmarinifolia

 

heres how to overwinter protea cynaroides. the bottles keep the water out of the flower buds stopping them from rotting