Sometimes I feel almost guilty writing about a plant I love, particularly when extolling its virtues is so easy to do. Such is the case with the wide-ranging genus grevillea. Hailing from Australia ...

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, ...

Grevillea is a very large genus of Australian plants, with the continent’s third largest number of species after Acacia and Eucalyptus. These range from tall trees to prostrate groundhuggers, but the ...

Grevilleas belong to a genus of plants ranging from groundcovers to trees with 360 species and more than 1000 cultivars. In addition to a wide range of growth habits, these Australian natives grow in ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. The Protea family (Proteaceae) is a Southern ...

Have you noticed more birds in the garden of late? Is it that we are experiencing some best winter weather in years or is it that some gardens are providing more to attract birds to the garden? There ...

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 ...

I've always had a passion for propagating plants. I did my first cutting when I was about five years old. I stuck a side shoot from a tomato straight into a garden bed and from the moment it struck ...

Back home on the east coast of England, there's a flowering plant that wows me every single winter: Grevillea. The variety I have is called 'Coastal Gem', and it's a very fitting name for a hardy ...

Is it that we have experienced some of the best winter weather in years or is it that some gardens are providing more to attract birds to the garden? There are literally hundreds of plants available ...