Our extensive range of Protea offers you a huge choice with plants suitable for many different landscape solutions from tall hedge plants to ground covers. Our Proteas are both tough and beautiful and provide suitable habitat for birds and bees. We have been selecting and breeding Proteas suitable for Australian gardens for over 30 years!
Proteas are native to southern Africa and belong to the same family of plants (the family Proteaceae) as the Australian Banksias, Grevilleas and Telopea. The name ‘Protea' is commonly used to refer not only to plants in the genus Protea, but also to plants in two other genera from southern Africa: Leucadendron and Leucospermum.
The family Proteaceae is an ancient family of plants with a Gondwanan ancestry - it was one of the earliest groups of flowering plants and was able to disperse and diversify throughout Gondwana before the supercontinent disintegrated. With about 1600 species, it is one of the plant groups which now dominate the southern hemisphere floras.
Our full range is illustrated on the following pages and our search facility enables you to select varieties best suited to your requirements
