Paula: Pruning on Leucospermum should be kept to a minimum. After flowering, trim off the old flowering stems and, if the plant is growing out of "shape", prune a little bit more into those stems that are asymmetrical at that time. The plant is naturally a large shrub but as it gets older, you can remove some of the lower branches to give it the look of a small multi-trunked tree. Joe

Does anyone have these growing and able to save me some seeds I have grown the orange one from seed and I would like to grow the red and the yellow ones. please email me if so Bev

Thank you both for your suggestion that I visit the SA gardenweb. Actually, I have posted there. I haven't gotten any responses. So took a chance that maybe some of you may be growing these plants and would offer advice. Re cold and warm. I am in an area that gets a freeze in the winter (so I winter protect my plants) and that gets really, really hot in the summer (often a 100 degrees -- sorry i don't know what that would be in Celsius). My plants are new, but are flowering profusely. They just seem to lack intensity of color. Thanx again for any advice you can offer.

I have two Leucospermum right next to each other - one is browning (to the right of hte lights) and the other is doing fine (on the left). Both went in about 2 months ago - both bloomed wonderfully. Well drained soil (basic tropical plant soil around root ball and then I live on a sand dune a few feet further down - So Cal within 1/2 mile from coast). Ideas of what might be going wrong?