Becoming increasingly popular is this most delightful Australian native with narrow, silvery-grey leaves, and bearing on strong, easily arrange able, wiry stalks globular drumsticks of bright yellow flowers. They make excellent dried flowers. Although usually grown as a colourful half-hardy annual, it is not that tender and is well worth trying to nurse through an average New Zealand winter, with cloches perhaps, when the blooms in the second year will repay the effort taken. 3ft (90cm)

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