Matching Proteas to Your Garden

	General fillers	Hedges & Screens	Focal Plants	Ground covers & Creepers	Adjacent ponds
Coastal Gardens (on alkaline or neutral sands & limestone)	Au umbellata Ld salignum Ls truncatum Pr repens	Ld coniferum Ld galpinii Ld meridianum Pr lanceolata	Ls praecox Mi saxatile Pr obtusifolia Pr susannae	Ld murii	Ld laxum Ld linifolium
Clay Soils (well drained!)	Ld chamalea Ld corymbosum Ld cryptocephalm Ld lanigerum Ld modestum Ld rubrum Ld stellare Ld stelligerum Ld teretifolium Ls calligerum Pr burchellii Pr coronata Pr decurrens Pr mucronifolia Pr odorata Pr pudens Se brownii		Ld elimense Ls grandiflorum Ls vestitum Pr nitida	Ls heterophyllum	Ld laxum
Acid Sands	Almost any Cape Mountain species, except high altitude peat species.	Any: White Sugarbush Stream Conebush	Ld tinctum Ld discolor Ld platysperum Ls conocarp. Ls reflexum Mi chrysanthus Mi fimbriifolius Pr laurifolia Pr neriifolia & others	Di buekii Ls gracile Ls saxosum Ls royenifolium Ls pedunculatum Ls prostratum Ls hypophyllocar. Se cygnea Se viridifolia	Ld floridum Mi hirtus
Good Loams (granite-derived, sandy loams ideal)	All above, except some acid sands	All above	All above, plus Ld argenteum	All above, plus Se gracilis	All above
Container Plants (bigger pots best)	-	-	Ls oleifolium Mi argenteus Mi hottentoticus Or zeyheri Pr nana	-	-