Bees make straight for the nectar as do honey eaters and other native birds and the flowers are such a lovely beacon on these grey winter days.
It is not simply a gorgeous shrub with its beautiful flowers, fast growth and thick foliage it is also a marvellous screening plant.
Recently the local council put in footpaths on my side of the street and they dug up most of my nature strip garden, despite not needing to place the concrete there. In their wisdom, the workers dug up most of the plants leaving the grevillias roots to the sky.
Somehow amidst the carnage the bottle-brush and hakea survived.
I managed to save a couple but the majority have died.
But every morning when i walk outside and see the hakea in flower, I'm grateful it's still there.
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