Plant Finder Features How It Works Pricing Testimonials Blog

The UK's leading eCommerce platform for horticulture businesses.

Product

Features
How It Works
Pricing

Company

About
Blog
Contact

Legal

Twitter LinkedIn

Protea eximia | Plant Finder | Fill My Garden

Home/Plants/Shrubs

Plants > Shrubs

Protea eximia

Protea eximia

Drought Resistant

Genus: Protea
Family: Proteaceae

About this plant

A large shrub or small tree to 4m, with robust, sparsely branched stems and leathery, glaucous, grey-green, sometimes purple-flushed leaves. In early summer it bears cone-shaped flowerheads to 14cm across, with red bracts fringed with white hairs

Growing Information

Height

2.5-4 Metres

Spread

2.5-4 Metres

Hardiness

Foliage

Evergreen

Growing Conditions

Sunlight

Full Sun

Soil

ClayLoamSandy

AcidAlkalineNeutral

Not Currently Available

This plant is not currently stocked at any garden centres on our platform.

Moisture

Well Drained

Aspect

West FacingEast Facing

Exposure

Exposed

Care Guide

Cultivation

Under glass grow in a mix of 1 part loam with added charcoal and 3 parts equal measures of grit (or perlite) and peat substitute, in full light. Water moderately in spring and summer. Apply a liquid fertiliser of magnesium sulphate and urea, both at half recommended strength, once in spring and again in early autumn. Water sparingly in winter. Outdoors grow in poor, well-drained soil in full sun

Pruning

See pruning group 1

Propagation

Propagate by seed or semi-ripe cuttings

Pests

Generally pest-free

Diseases

Generally disease-free

Garden Uses

Uses

Flower BordersLow MaintenanceArchitecturalPatio Container

Planting Places

Gravel GardenIndoorConservatory

Season of Interest

SpringSummerAutumnWinter

Size & Characteristics

Height

2.5-4 Metres

Spread

2.5-4 Metres

Habit

Bushy

Time to Full Height

Twenty To Fifty Years