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Leucospermum 'High Gold' (Golden Nodding Pincushion) - This is an attractive upright mounding shrub up to 5 feet tall with a 6-foot spread. It produces gray-green leaves and yellow, distinctively dome-shaped flowers, that are 4 inches wide on long stems that last for a prolonged period in mid spring on the plant and in the vase. It does best in the full sun in a well-drained soil. It is drought tolerant once established but is not cold hardy much below 30 F. A very showy yellow flowering pincushion.
Leucospermum 'High Gold' is considered to be an improvement on Leucospermum cordifolium 'Yellow Bird', which is one parent with Leucospermum patersonii as the pollen parent. This plant was developed by the Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, a division of the Agricultural Research Council of South Africa. It was first hybridized in 1980 with Plant Breeder Rights granted in 1991 and was granted US Plant Patent PP10,644 to Zorro Farms in 1998. Mel Resendiz had originally worked at Zorro Farms and when this nursery shut down the patent was reassigned to Resendiz Brothers Nursery but the patent on it expired in 1997. We have grown this great pincushion since 2012.
The information about Leucospermum 'High Gold' displayed on this web page is based on our research conducted in the nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also include observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share cultural information that would aid others in growing this plant. |
