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Pink King Protea
Protea cynaroides ‘King Pink’
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Supplied in 400mm
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Pink King Protea - Protea cynaroides ‘King Pink’
The king protea produces the largest flower head of any protea, a wide bowl of stiff pointed bracts that can span 20 to 30cm, and ‘King Pink’ is selected for a clean, saturated pink in those bracts. Protea cynaroides is a low, spreading shrub with a woody lignotuber, so the plant itself is far smaller than the flowers suggest and can regenerate from the base after damage. Growing it well is entirely a matter of drainage, sunlight and keeping phosphorus away from the roots.
Why Pink King Protea
Flower Scale: Individual heads are among the largest of any shrub grown in Australian gardens.
Long Season: Blooms appear over an extended period from autumn through winter and into spring in most districts.
Lignotuber: The woody rootstock lets an established plant reshoot after a hard prune or fire damage.
Water Efficiency: Adapted to dry Cape summers, it needs very little supplementary water once rooted.
Cut Flower Value: Heads last for weeks in the vase and dry well, holding their form for a year or more.
Ideal Applications
Feature shrub in a dry bed: Placed as a single focal plant where the flower heads sit at eye level.
Coastal sandy gardens: Thrives in the sharp draining sands of southern Australian coastal sites.
Cut flower plot: Grown in a production row for florists or household cutting.
Slope and terrace planting: Elevated positions give the drainage and air movement it demands.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): Not suited to hedging; allow 1.2 to 1.5m if planted in a row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m centres
Best Planting Season: Autumn in temperate zones, or early spring in cooler districts
Soil & Drainage: Acidic, sandy, sharply drained and low in nutrients; no phosphorus fertiliser, manure or rich compost at any stage
Establishment Care: Water deeply once a week for the first three months, then only through prolonged dry spells, because soggy soil is the usual cause of sudden death. Plant on a slight mound, mulch with coarse gravel or pine bark away from the crown, and never dig or cultivate around the shallow proteoid root mat.
Plant Details
Height: 1 to 1.5m
Width: 1.5 to 2m
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun with open air movement
Native to: Cultivar of a species from the Cape region of South Africa
Flower Colour: Pink bracts around a white to pink central boss
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







