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Hakea lehmanniana

This plant in the Protea Family is relatively new to us at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, and it is putting on a fine floral show for the first time this winter. The flowers are blue-tinged, and it is sometimes called the “blue hakea” (in some plants the blue is more pronounced than seen here).It is native to Western Australia in the winter-rainfall zone, and it seems right at home here in the Mediterranean climate of California.

-Brian