This bushy grevillea is great for sunny sites with good drainage. It has has cream flowers, contrasting nicely with the deep green foliage and growing rapidly to form a bushy shrub to around a metre tall. It's massed with flowers over winter, which as well as looking great will also attract nectar eating native birds such as waxeyes and bellbirds. For a bright, low maintenance planting try combining grevilleas with bushy rosemary varieties such as ‘Tuscan Blue’ and ‘Lady in White’, along with ‘Pukehou’ lavender, and for contrast Cordyline ‘Green Goddess’.

If there’s room, the native kaka beak, Clianthus ‘Kaka’ King’ will look dazzling at the rear and will be covered in its crimson, bird attracting blooms in early spring. Cut back grevilleas after flowering to keep them compact and strong growing. Go easy on fertilisers with grevilleas, if you give them any at all - these Australian natives really are happiest on a starvation diet. In sandy beach gardens they are very much at home.