Grevilleas are fantastic Australian plants for the garden. They generally have big, spectacular flowers for much of the year, and soft, often silvery ferny foliage. But there are a few tricks to ...

While pondering the subject of this Red Bluff Garden Club article, I sauntered down my garden paths seeking inspiration. There right before me in the patent splendor of a ground cover carpet, ...

Our grevilleas are not happy. It is hot. It is dry. And they don't like it. A grevillea's natural response to the one-in-300-year droughts that our climate is prone to, is to flower, set seed and die, ...

Australia has more grevillea species than there are days in the year, and every year a few more join the gang as botanists and dedicated volunteers find previously undescribed plants. The Sydney basin ...

When it’s spring in Marin, it’s fall in the Southern Hemisphere, but do the Australian native shrubs in our Marin gardens think it is spring or fall? It turns out, they are not confused at all. Our ...

Some people are afraid to prune native plants because of the myth that they don’t need it, or for fear of doing something wrong. Many native plants are used to being browsed by animals so a bit of a ...

Description: This successful evergreen shrub, with most of its 270 species native to Australia, is a little less known to some gardeners than its cousins in the protea family: protea, leucadendron, ...