Product Name

🌺 Grevillea ‘Superb’ 

Grevillea ‘Superb’ is a popular Australian native hybrid shrub valued for its large, spider-like red and orange flowers, long flowering season, and bird-attracting nectar. It’s fast growing, adaptable, and ideal for low-maintenance gardens.

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🌿 Plant Description

• Common Name: Grevillea ‘Superb’

• Botanical Name: Grevillea ‘Superb’

• Plant Type: Evergreen native shrub

• Foliage: Fine, deeply divided green leaves

• Flowers: Large red, orange and yellow spider flowers

• Flowering: Late winter through summer (often year-round in warm climates)

• Height: 3–5 m

• Spread: 3–4 m

• Growth Habit: Upright, open, spreading

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🌞 Care Guide (Easy & Reliable)

☀️ Light

• Full sun to light shade

• Best flowering in full sun

🌱 Soil

• Well-drained soil essential

• Sandy or loamy soils ideal

• Avoid heavy clay and poor drainage

💧 Water

• Low to moderate water needs

• Water regularly while establishing

• Once established, drought tolerant

🌿 Feeding

• Use low-phosphorus native fertiliser only

• Apply lightly in spring

• Avoid manure or high-phosphorus fertilisers

✂️ Pruning

• Light pruning after flowering

• Encourages bushier growth and more flowers

• Avoid cutting into old woody stems

🌡️ Climate & Hardiness

• Tolerates heat, light frost, and coastal conditions

• Not suited to waterlogged or humid tropical soils

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🌼 Landscape Uses

Grevillea ‘Superb’ is highly versatile in landscape design:

• 🌺 Feature shrub for native or mixed gardens

• 🐦 Bird-attracting plant (honeyeaters love it)

• 🌳 Informal screening or hedge

• 🌿 Large shrub or small tree with pruning

• 🌱 Low-maintenance landscapes and councils plantings

Pairs well with:

• Kangaroo paw

• Callistemon

• Westringia

• Banksia