Diplolaena angustifolia – Yanchep Rose

A medium shrub with linear leaves on slender stems and lovely creamy-pink to orange, pendant flower heads, surrounded by cream bracts. An attractive shrub that grows from 0.4 to 1.2m high and 1m wide, and flowers in winter and spring. It looks lovely in any garden and is very effective in large courtyard pots. It grows in full sun or dappled shade and tolerates moderate drought, coastal conditions and alkaline sandy soils, and adapts to inland soils such as gravelly loams and clay loams. Origin – Geraldton Sandplain and Swan Coastal Plain.