Our Floral ( NSW) Emblem Flowering

[Pedro 65]

Telopea specisissima( NSW Warratah) is our Floral emblem of NSW which is in the proteaceae family, it has stunning flowers but is a very fussy and hard to grow easy, so over many years of criss crossing different Telopea's, there are many Hybrid Telopea that are an "easy grow" and flower in a short few years.

The pics taken today below are Telopea oreades x specisissima here planted in deep red soil.

Telopea's like near all Proteaceae like very free draining soil to do well.

Pete

[Tropicgardener]

Absolutely gorgeous Pete.........I used to grow it when I was in Nowra but up here I tried many times and failed many times.............I think I will stick to my home state floral emblem.....the good old Cooktown Orchid.

[Pedro 65]

Andrew, since there are so many Telopea hybrids available now, Id like to grow more, especially the White. Pete

[tropicbreeze]

I've always liked Waratahs (not meaning one of our local footy teams here). When I lived down south (out bush) there were lots of them around, but I never worried about trying to grow them myself. Didn't know they'd hybridised a lot of new varieties, a white one would look great. I guess I'll have to stick to our own proteas (or NQ ones). Can't even grow our own floral emblem here. It was a choice made by Canberra, so that explains a lot.

[Pedro 65]

I've always liked Waratahs (not meaning one of our local footy teams here). When I lived down south (out bush) there were lots of them around, but I never worried about trying to grow them myself. Didn't know they'd hybridised a lot of new varieties, a white one would look great. I guess I'll have to stick to our own proteas (or NQ ones). Can't even grow our own floral emblem here. It was a choice made by Canberra, so that explains a lot.

Yeh Zig, the hybrids have been around for quite a while but the colour range now is growing, heres a few pics from Telope hybrids site, the whitest is called Crimson White Shady Lady, many have the Shady Lady name, the most abundant flowering pics is a perfect shaped Spec x oreades. The colour range of hybrids is Pink, Red, Cream, White, Yellow and Blood Red.

Pete