Today we will visit some ot the Gardens’ winter flowering grevilleas as well as other  plants along the way.

1. Epacris impressa [ Section 174] is a straggly bush with prickly foliage and cheerful pink tubular flowers along the stem.
2. The standard grevillea Grevillea bipinnatifida ‘Jingle Bells’ [Section 124]  has orange/red toothbrush flowers and prickly foliage.
3. A small tree of Banksia spinulosa var. spinulosa [ Section 109] shows off crimson styles on gold brushes.
4. A low bush of Grevillea lanigera [Section 15g] is covered with pink and cream clusters on blue/green foliage.
5. Hakea obtusa [Section 20] has pink powderpuff flowers growing on the stem, with green veined foliage.
6. A large open bush of Grevillea vestita [Section 22] displays white starbursts of flower on stiff foliage.
7. Grevillea corrugata [Section 24] has white rods of flower on a fine leafed sprawling bush.
8. A dense bush of Grevillea ripicola [Section 24] is covered in orange/red flower clusters.
9. An unusual Western Australian grevillea, Grevillea endlicheriana [Section 26], has long arching silver-grey foliage with terminal pink flowers.
10. Grevillea minutiflora [Section 26] has cream rods of flower on prickly foliage.
11. A large bush with soft oval leaves and pendent clusters of red flowers is Grevillea rhyolitica subsp. rhyolitica [Section 24].
12. Hakea clavata [Section 26] is a sparse bush with long leathery leaves and pink flower clusters.
13. Grevillea dielsiana [Section 26] has particularly stiff and prickly foliage with orange flowers in abundance.
14. A prostrate bush of Grevillea baueri [Section 26] has tight foliage and red flowers.
15. Grevillea sericea [Section 26] is an open bush with pink flower clusters.
16. This bush of  Banksia spinulosa var. spinulosa [Section 26]has puregold styles and brushes.
17. Grevillea ‘Lady O’ [Section 26] is a spreading floriferous bush with many red flowers.
18. Long serrated leaves of Banksia robur [Section 25] surround new greenish brushes and older rich brown brushes.
19. Eremophila microtheca [Section 302] has a minty aroma, needle like foliage and purple tubular flowers.

      Rosalind Walcott.