Until recently, the only place you would have seen a kangaroo paw like this was in the wild, in Western Australia. Then the plant hybridists worked their magic and made it a much easier plant to propagate and to grow in garden conditions while losing none of its extraordinary beauty. The flowers really are something magical, shaped like paws or birds’ beaks, depending on their stage of opening, with an unusual colour combination of pale greeny-yellow and black. This, and the long black stems, makes them superb cut flowers and they last for a long time in a vase. Just the thing to go with a modern dining room or kitchen décor.