The soft orange or apricot flowers of Grevillea Wakiti Sunrise grow on a low-growing shrub with handsome, deeply cut leaves.

Grevilleas show the curious characteristic of brush like flowers often seen in Australian plants.

The colorful medium sized shrub, Grevillea 'Robin Gordon', in flower

This group of woody plants offer some fascinating, colorful and  highly ornamental flowering shrubs. There are some that grow tree-like to fifteen feet in ideal conditions, many that form medium-sized bushes, and a few that hug low to the ground, making attractive ground covers. The varieties shown here are some of the most cold resistant Grevilleas, braving temperatures into the 20′s Fahrenheit.

Grevillea Lanigera 'Prostrate Form' makes a pink-flowered ground cover.

These plants come in a wide range of single or blended flower colors and leaves tend to be short and simple or flat and deeply cut.

The majority are frost shy. Like so many Australian plants, Grevilleas are drought-tolerant and do not like phosphorus in the soil.

This bright red flowered Grevillea rosemarinifolia is a wide-spreading shrub that tops out at around five feet tall. The leaves do resemble rosemary.

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