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Easy Growing Proteas

A Selection of easy-growing protea seeds that are most robust for a wide range of conditions and suitable for a novice to grow.

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Easy Growing Proteas : This is a selection of proteas that are easy to grow under a wide variety of conditions - ideal for beginners to test their growing conditions. Get 10 seeds of each of these proteaceae, plus Smoke Primer and detailed growing instructions.
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Catalog photo of Leucadendron album

Leucadendron album $0.12 for 1 seeds

(Linear-leaf Conebush)
Grows to 2m, linear silvery white leaves with silky hairs, flowers in Summer, mature cones silvery pink, very attractive. Sow in Autumn. USDA Zone 8.
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Catalog photo of Leucadendron daphnoides

Leucadendron daphnoides

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Grows to 1 to 2m with upper leaves that go through a series of colour changes - green, ivory, reddish, then green again. Very attractive and easy garden plant. Sow in Autumn. USDA Zone 8.
Catalog photo of Leucadendron rubrum

Leucadendron rubrum $0.12 for 1 seeds

Grows to 2.5m, males have many small narrow flower-heads, female cones are green with red edges to bracts, very attractive, adaptable, good cut foliage.Sow Autumn. USDA Zone 8.
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Catalog photo of Leucadendron salignum

Leucadendron salignum $0.12 for 1 seeds

Grows to 2m, a multi-stemmed plant with persistent rootstock. Leaves hairless, not shiny. Flowers in spring to summer with a yeasty odour. Grows on a wide range of soil types, from sea-level to 2000m. A very variable species. USDA Zone 8.
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Catalog photo of Leucospermum conocarpodendron

Leucospermum conocarpodendron $0.12 for 1 seeds

A large, rounded shrub or tree, 3 - 5 m tall, 3 - 6 m across. Flowers yellow.Grows in granite and sandstone soils on dry slopes.Flowers Aug-Dec.
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Catalog photo of Leucospermum cordifolium

Leucospermum cordifolium $0.12 for 1 seeds

A 1.5m shrub, large orange/red flower in spring/summer.Grows in acid well-drained soils. Gives a good cut flower. Sow Autumn. USDA Zone 9.
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Catalog photo of Leucospermum muirii

Leucospermum muirii $0.12 for 1 seeds

Grows to 1.5m shrub, with narrow leaves. Quite rare.Small yellow flowers are borne singly or in groups between Winter and Spring.Sow Autumn. USDA Zone 9.
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Catalog photo of Protea burchellii

Protea burchellii $0.12 for 1 seeds

An erect, spreading shrub 1 - 2 m tall, up to 3 m across. Flowerheads have short flowers sunken within the long involucral bracts. Involucral bracts are shiny, cream to pink to carmine, tipped with a black or white beard. Grows invaried soils but favours richer soil. Flowers Jun-Jul.
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Catalog photo of Protea cynaroides

Protea cynaroides $0.12 for 1 seeds

(King Protea)South Africa's national flower. Grows 0.3m to 2m. Distinctive leaves, huge flowerheads with pink/red flowers. Flowering time depends on variant.Can be potted.Sow Autumn. USDA zone 8.
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Catalog photo of Protea eximia

Protea eximia $0.12 for 1 seeds

Grows to between 2 and 5m, with broad cordate leaves. Shows large flowers usually in Spring with long spatulate inner bracts that are widely splayed.Easy in cultivation. Sow in Autumn. USDA zone 8.
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Catalog photo of Protea neriifolia

Protea neriifolia $0.12 for 1 seeds

(Oleanderleaf Protea - Blousuikerbos)Grows to a 3m shrub with narrow oblong leaves.Flowers are creamy-green to deep pink in winter, beard white to purple-black.Good cut flower.Tolerates a wide range of soils.Coastal, light frost, easy to grow.Sow in Autumn. USDA zone 8.
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Smoke Primer $0.10 for 1 Disks

(1 disk will germinate up to 100 seeds)
This paper disk is impregnated with the chemicals found in bushfire smoke, as well as components found to help Strelitzia's and Restios germinate. When you soak seeds in a solution of these chemicals you recreate conditions similar to the start of the rainy season after a fire. This triggers germination.We use it and recommend it in our growing instructions. If you have bought seeds then don't go home without this! Essential for Protea, Strelitizia and Restio seeds and recommended for most Cape Fynbos seeds.
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