Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil where it can tolerate alkalinity and light to heavy frosts (hardy to around 18° F) and requires little irrigation once established. Only lightly prune as heavy pruning can be damaging to this plant. Grass-leaf Hakea is very popular in cultivation in Australia and it is described in Rodger Elliot and David Jones' Australian Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants (Vol 5. Lothian Press, 1990) as being "one of the most eye-catching of the hakeas when in full bloom". It makes a great specimen plant for the garden and is attractive to nectar feeding birds.

Grass-leaf Hakea occurs in the wild in arid to semi-arid regions of southern Western Australia and central and western South Australia on sandy, gravely soils or clay loams. The name for the genus honors Baron Christian L. von Hake, a 18th and 19th century German patron of botany and the specific epithet honors Charles Fraser, the first superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Image on this page courtesy of Jo O'Connell of Australian Native Plant Nursery. 

The information about Hakea francisiana that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.