Re: Grevillea Robin Gordo?

It sounds like the cultivar name has been garbled in
Spain, it is most likely 'Robyn Gordon' as Bill Grant
notes.I would disagree with Bill on the cold hardiness
of this cultivar, as it is frost tender in my
experience, and never seen as a long lived landscape
plant away from coastal influence here in northern
California.  I'd suggest that in most garden settings
it needs frost protection below 29/30F.  This may be
because I usually grow it in irrigated settings where
it is not usually forced into dormancy by late fall. 
It does have very large beautiful flowers nearly year
round, benefits from regular tip pinching to give it
better form, and is is sensitive to poor drainage. 
I've enjoyed using it as a specimen container plant,
and get to enjoy the hummingbirds who visit it up
close.  The cultivar 'Superb' is a similar
orange/apricot version of this plant, but a little
less rangy in growth habit.


--- Pamela Steele <pamela@nznf.co.uk> wrote:

> I have just purchased a lovely shrub Grevillea
> 'Robin Gordo' here in the
> Costa Blanca. I cannot find any reference to it at
> all on the Web. Does
> anyone know anything about this lovely plant and
> maybe the sub species of
> Grevillea to which it belongs.    Any light shed on
> this would be much
> appreciated.
> thank you
> 
> Pamela
> 



	
		
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