Sunrise Grevilleas

Grevilleas are our most popular genus of native plants - they top our popularity polls, and our sales reports.
With 125 different grevillea varieties currently in our range, there's heaps of choice!

And leading the pack of all the grevilleas on offer, are the sunrise-sunset shaded varieties. This gentle sunwashed pastel palette is popular with gardeners across Australia, as it can mix it up with vivid golds and hot pinks, and mingle amongst pale lilacs and shades of green.

 

Grevilleas For Every Garden

Grevilleas generally love free draining light soil, low in nutrients, and dry air.

Although they are native, they are very tricky to propagate. We propagate them in the winter months, when humidity is lowest here on the east coast, for the best chance of success.

Most of the sunrise- and sunset-gradient grevilleas we sell mature to a very garden friendly size, roughly a metre to a metre and a half around, ideal for informal border hedging and feature shrub planting, and small enough to fit into a large patio planter.

One or two will top out over head height, to provide perching and singing posts for small birds.

Sunrise Grevilleas

 

"I love [Grevillea Coconut Ice] because it is in flower 365 days a year, the birds adore its nectar, and it provides shelter to small birds and animals."

Coconut Ice has been one of our most popular grevillea varieties since we started retailing our plants back in 2013. The large flowers shade from warm deep coral pink, through peach and sand, for a very pretty ombre effect.

When it's not flowering, the stiff, heavily-dissected leaves create a tall dense privacy hedge and a save haven for small birds.
But who are we kidding? It's almost never not flowering!

Frost tolerant, drought tolerant, flowers throughout the year, grows in a range of different climates.

 

 

Lovely Lemon Baby has elongated tapering flowers, papaya-pink at the base, butter gold in the centre, and lemon-lime at the bud tip.

It shares the same parents as our Strawberry Pops below - Grevillea bipinnatifida with stiff, highly dissected leaves and burnt-red flowers, and Bush Lemons, a big tree-shrub grevillea with vibrant acid yellow flowers.

Drought tolerant, low and wide-spreading, it flowers all year round and looks good planted where the flowers can tumble down a bank or over a low wall.

 

 

Loopy Lou is our best-selling sunrise-shaded grevillea. Half the height of a mature Coconut Ice, it's easier to site in a smaller garden, and in a patio planter.

The large flowers shade from coral-orange to butter yellow, and the tips of each style (the hairbrush-like spines) are cherry red, for a vivid contrast.

Light-frost tolerant, drought tolerant, happy in humidity, flowers throughout the year.

 

 

New Outback Sunrise is a different species to our other grevilleas, most of which are related somewhere along their family tree.

It's big - up to 4m - with fine feathery foliage and dense flowers all year round in warm climates. Those flowers are lemon-butter inside, with magenta-scarlet styles all round, for a very vivid contrast.

 

 

Always in demand, Peaches and Cream is the kind of sunrise to get your eyes popping open and your feet jumping out of bed. It's a zesty colour palette; warm-toned apricot at the base of the flower shifts dramatically to acid neon yellow at the tip.

It popped up one day in a Brisbane garden, quite by chance, so you know it loves a humid climate!

Light-frost tolerant, drought tolerant, flowers throughout the year, and about a metre and a half all-round for heaps of bird-friendly flowers.

 

 

New Pink Profusion is a delicate shell pink to soft peach, with contrasting hot pink-magenta hairbrush styles all around as the flowers open.

With masses of these flowers through the year, covering a metre-large shrub, there's a lot of value in a small package.

Light-frost tolerant, drought tolerant, flowers throughout the year, grows in a range of different climates.

 

 

Fast-growing, sun-loving Soopa Doopa shares the sunrise shading of other varieties here, with an all-over deep ocean-going tan.

The colour palette is a toasted Coconut Ice, a sandy Superb, a Loopy Lou with generous application of bronzer.

Its breeder says

"t's a tiny plant, it's less than a metre tall, it's about a metre round, it flowers all year, it's got soft foliage — it's a gorgeous little thing"

 

 

New Strawberry Pops was bred especially for Australian Plants Online by renowned grevillea breeder Richard Tomkin.

The fat conical flowers start off buttery gold, shades to mango-peach at the base, finally ending up a deep warm-toned papaya-strawberry pink all over when fully open. So you get a fruity rainbow sunrise of shades all over each plant!

Strawberry Pops is twice as wide as it is tall, two metres by one metre, ideal for filling space and giving you great birdwatching opportunities.

Frost tolerant, drought tolerant, flowers for a long season in winter-spring.

 

 

At a metre and a half all round, Strawberry Sundae is a double scoop of lemon mousse and ripe peaches topped with strawberry syrup. Delicious!

Compact, bushy, flowering for a long season in winter-spring.

 

 

Superb is a step-sibling to Coconut Ice, the very similar parentage creating a similar grevillea.
Superb's flowers are richly coloured, peachy-apricot when young, shading to deep papaya-peach with warm musk-pink at the base as they mature and open. They appear all year round, with more heavy blooming in winter and early spring.

This variety was bred in Queensland so it's very happy in subtropical humidity.

Frost tolerant, drought tolerant, flowers throughout the year, grows in a range of different climates.

 

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With a very different shape of flower to the large fat cones of the varieties above, Winpara Goldhas small rounded loopy flowers, that unloop and open up into firework explosions of colour - custard yellow inside, strawberry pink outside.

Big enough for privacy screens, open and airy enough for feature shrubs and wildlife refuges for small birds, it's frost tolerant and flower during autumn and winter when the garden needs colour and local birds need nectar.

Have we tempted you to find a place to watch the sunrise in your garden?

Take a look through our gallery below to see what we have in stock right now!