A dense medium to large shrub with deep green foliage with cone-shaped bright red blooms. A great feature shrub for general garden beds or rockeries. Also suitable for a large container and is a great cut flower. Does best in a well drained acid soil, and likes a mulch of leaves, straw or similar. Feed in spring with a good native fertiliser, watering in well afterwards.

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  Telopea speciossima 'Ballerina'