This shrub is upright and spreading with slender branches that form a compact rounded habit. It has glossy green divided leaves with pungent leaflets and the reddish tube-shaped flowers appear in pendant clusters from autumn to spring.

Hardiness zones 8 to 10

Grevillea ripicolais naturally found near the coast of south-west Western Australia growing in open forests. It tolerates well drained moderately fertile gravelly clay or sandy loams in a full sun to semi shaded protected position and is drought tender but frost tolerant.

The Collie Grevillea is grown for its dense spreading habit and its bird attracting flowers and is planted in shrub borders for screening or as a large garden specimen. It is suitable for coastal regions establishing in 2 to 3 years and is planted on road or creek embankments as a ground cover.The plant thriving in wet cold winters and hot dry summers but is short lived in humid coastal regions. ID 2474

Grevillea(gre-VIL-ee-a) ripicola(rip-ee-KOH-lah)

Proteaceae (pro-tee-AY-see-ee)
Protea Family