Uses: Highly ornamental low shrub for more open locations, wider verges, median strips, parks and reserves. Planted singly as a colourful foreground in mixed plantings or en-mass as a ground cover or low hedge or barrier.
Requires well-drained soils
Tolerant to pruning.
Bird attracting for food and habitat.
Caution: Can be a skin irritant.
Note: This species is provisionally classified schedule 1, Regulation 24.2 under the Sewerage Act. Written approval is required prior to planting in streets or roads. It should not be planted closer than two metres to any sewer main or connection.