Cultivars
There are three main types, upright, prostrate and weeping or trailing with pendant branches.

There arethousandsof cultivars and hybrids of this plant, they occur in a wide range of shapes and colours, check your local nurseries for available varieties.

'Blaze'
This plant produces flowers with bright red sepals and vibrant pink petals.

'Bolivina'
This plant may grow to a small tree of 3.5m; leaves are grey green with long tubed scarlet flowers.

'Comet'
This shrub produces pendant flowers up to 30mm (1?in) wide with white sepals that are suffused in pink and soft pink clustered petals.

'Colossus'
This bushy shrub produces large pendant flowers with bright red sepals and tightly packed dark purple petals. The stamens are light pink and the pedicel and associated branchlets are reddish.

'Display'
This small shrub produces flowers with a short red tube that has upward pointed sepals and the petals are pale pink.

'Flash'
This shrub has light green leaves and formes a bushy habit. Flower has magenta sepals with red petals.

'Hula Girl'
This shrub produces flowers with whitish sepals, pink petals and protruding pink stamens.

'Ice Maiden'
This double flower has ice-white sepals and pale mauve petals that are suffused with pink towards the base. The shrub is upright and bushy with slender woody stems, suitable for a small garden.

'Kenny Holmes'
This bushy shrub produces large pendant flowers with pink/white sepals and pale red petals. The stamens are red and the style is tipped in white.

'Mendocino Rose'
This semi-double flower has white sepals and purplish petals. The stamens are pink and the plant is suitable for small gardens.

'Monsteria'
This dense shrub produces double flowers that have red sepals and pale mauve petals.

'Orange Drops'
This bushy to semi - trailing shrub has single flowers with light orange tubes and sepals and dark orange petals.

'Peppermint Stick'
This shrub is upright and bushy, producing flowers that have upturned bright pink sepals and pale pink overlapping petals. The darker pink stamens and style protrude below the petals.

'Rosebud'
This semi-double flower has bright pink sepals and deep mauve petals. The stamens are red and the shrub flowers profusely.

'Strawberry Delight'
This small plant produces double pale pink flowers with ascending sepals and ruffled petals.

'Swing Time'
This shrub is vigorous plant to 60cm. has double flowers; tubes and sepals are red with creamy white petals.

'Tom Thumb'
This shrub is small to 300mm (1ft) tall has an arching open habit and produces small single tubed flowers purple-white petals and red sepals.

'Voodoo'
The flowers have rich red sepals and purple petals that are suffused with red. The stamens are pink tipped in white and the shrub is upright with an open habit.

'Waltzing Matilda'
This shrub forms a trailing habit with dark green leaves with serrate margins.
The flowers are double pale pink with pink veins.

'Whiteknight's Pearl'
This multi stemmed upright shrub forms a rounded habit with slightly toothed ovate leaves. It produces pendant flowers with soft pink sharply pointed sepals and slightly darker pink petals.