Please excuse the cheesy title of this post, but this beautiful spring flowering leucadendron is called Safari Goldstrike. I wrote about it earlier in the year. It was our first new planting after we took over the protea farm 4 years ago, and it has been a great success. This year is the first big harvest, with the plants beginning to produce lots of saleable stems. If you want to see the before and after shots, click on the link.
For most of the year, Safari Goldstrike are a green leaucadendron with a slightly pink tip, as seen in the photo above. Many florists use them at this stage. They are long lasting and a great accent flower, the green really glowing among soft pastels, or natives.
You can see them being used above in this native arrangement. Depending upon the weather conditions, sometime in August these unassuming leuco's decide its their time to shine, and they begin to change colour and open into the large golden blooms that give them their name.
They really glow with colour and their large, teacup shaped flowers just shout "look at me".
We are so proud of these great flowers - our first planting. They are versatile all year round, but are definitely a spectacular spring-flowering leucadendron.
