Anigozanthos 'Bush Glow'
This cultivar has flower scapes that reach 0.7m tall. The
individual flowers are a greenish-yellow. The flowers are covered with deep
red coloured hairs that give an orange appearance to the flowers.
Diagnosis:
A. humilis:
Small clumps 100mm wide by 100-500mm tall (flower scape).
Leaves 10mm wide by 200mm long; margins hairy, leaf surface hairy to
glabrous. Flower stems to 500mm; covered in wooly hairs; stems sometimes
branched. Flowers are tubular to 50mm long; covered in short hairs;
perianth lobes turned back; cream, yellow, orange pink or red in colour.
A. 'Bush Glow':
Leaves to 7mm wide by 400mm long; glabrous. Flower stems to
700mm tall, branched. Flowers tubular, 35-40mm long, perianth lobes
partially recurved, perianth greenish-yellow and densely covered with deep
red hairs, becoming short and sparse on the lower stem and red to red-black
in colour.
A. flavidus:
Clumps to 1m across and up to 2m tall. Leaves are 20-40mm wide
by up to 1m long; glabrous. Flower stem up to 2m; glabrous where branching
starts; flowers tubular, 30-40mm long, perianth lobes not curved back, red,
orange, pink,yellow or green in colour.
Anigozanthos 'Rambofury'
Medium compact selection 1.2m(h) x 1.5m(w) with red flowers. Comparitors: A. 'Big Red' and A. 'Bush Sunset'. Diagnosis: A. ‘Big Red’ has bright all red flowers and similar breeding to Rambofury where as A. Bush Fury has yellow hairs on the buds.
A. ‘Bush Sunset’ has similar breeding, bright red flowers and similar height to Rambofury. but has darker red flowers red 53A
Grevillea 'Fire Sprite'
A large spreading shrub to c. 3m x 5m with a mid-dense habit
and infertile inflorescences.
Branchlets bronze with dense matted hairs, becoming grey with a shiny waxy
layer with age, striate, erect to slightly spreading.
Leaves normally pinnately divided, occasionally simple, to 25cm long and to
18cm wide. Leaf lobes to 17cm long and to 8mm wide. Upper surface dark
green with scattered deciduous appressed white hairs mostly shed with age.
Lower surface with a mixture of white and bronze appressed hairs either
side of a bronze-haired midvein.
Flowers in a simple to branched erect cylindrical conflorescence on a short
peduncle. Floral rachis bronze with matted hairs, average length 7cm.
Flowers burnt red. Perianth 12mm long (average) x 8mm wide, yellow-green at
the base, becoming orange then pinky-red to deep burnt red at the top of
the curve, lightly covered on the outer surface with a mixture of bronze
and white appressed hairs which become dense and bronze on the limb. Inner
surface with scattered erect white hairs particularly in lower third. Limb
bronze, obtuse, revolute. Pistil to 46mm, style to 36mm, burgundy-red with
spreading long white hairs in lower half. Style end same colour as style.
Ovary with dense spreading white hairs, stipitate above a large, markedly
oblique torus. Flowers during June to October, with scattered flowers for
remainder of year.
Diagnosis:
Foliage has broader lobes than G. longistyla, but finer than G.
venusta. Flowers are a unique deep burnt red and orange/green unlike either
of its parents.
Grevillea 'Ember Glow'
A low spreading shrub, which flowers for most of the year. ‘Ember Glow’ grows approximately 1m high x 2m across.
Grevillea 'Raptor'
Grevillea ‘Raptor’ is a fast growing hardy ground cover. It has bright red toothbrush like flowers that occur during spring. New growth is also a deep red colour.
During cold winters plants develop a bronzed appearance, this quickly changes when the weather warms up.