Protea compacta
Bot River sugarbush
Round, sparsely branched shrub. Warm pink feathered flowers held at branch tips make long lasting floral displays. Prune to shape once flowers are done. No phosphorus.
 Altura | 5–10 pies |
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 Ancho | 5–10 pies |
 Tolera | Costa, Sequía, Sal, Viento |
 Riego | Bajo |
Proteas are well adapted to our Mediterranean climate, making them carefree plants with bountiful rewards. After a few years, when your protea is established, it will want deep watering every couple weeks, though it will tolerate more if the drainage is excellent. In general protea respond poorly to clay soils, especially if they are overwatered. In habitat this protea grows in sandy flats and as such is not recommended for heavy soil with poor drainage. | |
 Resiste hasta | 25 °F |
 Exposición | Sombra parcial – Pleno sol |
 Características | Con flores, Barrera visual, Arbusto |
 Interior / exterior | Exterior |
 Drenaje | En el suelo: mezcla para cactus, En maceta: mezcla para cactus, Tolera suelo arenoso |
 Fertilización | Harina de sangre, Emulsión de pescado, Necesita poco, Sin fósforo |
 Origen | Suroeste de Sudáfrica |
 Nativa de California | No |
 Zonas Sunset | 16, 17, 19–24 |
Notas de cultivo
Fast growing, often blooming in five years from seed, or (as with our plants) a couple years from a cutting grown plant.
The Bot River sugarbush has a lanky nature, sometimes causing mature plants to fall over; this can be avoided by doing some early pruning and tip pinching or by pruning back bloomed branches. Don't prune back to more than two years of growth where there are no leaves and the branches are woody; this plant may not bud back from such a hard pruning.
Proteas have evolved to live in very poor soils, and so they should never have phosphorus fertilizer, which many a grower has learned the hard way. If you give your protea all-purpose fertilizer, it'll likely be completely dead within a couple weeks. They do respond well to light acidic fertilizer, such as cotton seed meal, or nitrogen fertilizers such as blood meal and fish emulsion. Generally its better to sit back and see how the plant grows without fertilzier, which is typically not needed.
Más información
There is also a white flower form of this plant.
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Esta información refleja las observaciones de Grubb and Nadler y de nuestra comunidad de amantes de las plantas. Siempre tomamos en cuenta las aportaciones de otros horticultores y agradecemos los comentarios de quienes tengan más información sobre el cultivo de esta planta.
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