Blechnifolias thrive in sun or shade, and with their pink-flushed new growth are especially lovely in pots. Banksia integrifolia can become an easy-to-tend tree, and is happy from inland Santa ...

Firewood banksia is rugged and yet stunning ... However, the flower spikes are stunning – showy and vibrant, dark pink-red in colour that becomes mixed with yellow as they open – and set ...

Fern-like Banksia (Banksia belchnifolia) – has large, pink to red-brown flowers but it’s the serrated foliage that’s really eye catching, especially the hairy, burnt-orange new growth.

There are only a handful of banksia vincentia plants growing in the wild.Credit: Corinne Le Gall Even the experts get sucked in. “We’d been to WA and like a lot of people admired the plants ...