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Description:

A lovely, softer variety with a dense, low growing, slightly weeping habit; grows well in most well drained soils; red spidery flower clusters emerge in winter; fine, lacey gray-green foliage looks great even when plant is not in bloom

Ornamental Features

Gilt Dragon Spider Net Grevillea features showy clusters of rose spider-like flowers with white overtones at the ends of the branches from early winter to early spring. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has attractive grayish green foliage with hints of silver. The tiny fuzzy ferny leaves are highly ornamental and remain grayish green throughout the winter.

Landscape Attributes

Gilt Dragon Spider Net Grevillea is an open multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It is a good choice for attracting birds and butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Gilt Dragon Spider Net Grevillea is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Gilt Dragon Spider Net Grevillea will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. It has a low canopy. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

This plant is not reliably hardy in our region, and certain restrictions may apply; contact the store for more information.