The cascading growths of Grevillea ‘Mt Tambourine’ makes it ideally suited to tumbling down banks and over walls, but it’s also a most rewarding ground cover shrub. The dense growth of this sun lover means it helps with garden maintenance by smothering weed growth and also makes it good from a visual point of view as a contrast to more upright, larger leafed plants. For a bit of garden drama, plant is so it cuddles up to bold stuff such as Echium fastuosum, Protea cynaroides, Cordyline ‘Green Goddess’, Metrosideros ‘Tahiti’, larger growing Grevilleas such as ‘Robin Gordon’ and ‘Robin Hood’ or Leucadendrons such as ‘Julie’ or ‘Wilsons Wonder’.

Against a sunny wall is often a dry situation where some plants struggle but not Grevilleas, which enjoy such conditions. A group of smaller growing, shrubby Grevilleas such as ‘Mount Tambourine’, ‘Red Clusters’, ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ and ‘Nancy Otzen’ will make quite a feature in such a situation and will provide lots of flowers for an astonishingly long period. Where there’s more room, use taller growing Grevilleas such as ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Robyn Gordon’, both of which have very bright and beautiful red flowers, as a background to groups of low growing Grevilleas such as ‘Red Clusters’. As well as year round beauty and being very easy to maintain, such plantings also attract native birds.