A robust perennial with bright golden-yellow flowers on tall stems, perfect for a spectacular feature in your garden.

Anigozanthos Landscape Gold is a towering yellow Kangaroo Paw. On the label it says it will grow 1 to 2 metres tall. When they describe height for a Kangaroo Paw they are talking about the height of the flower, not the height of the plant itself. In my garden the flowers are over 1.6 metres tall. It is also planted in a raised bed, making it a very imposing feature in full bloom!

The flowers stand tall and strong for many months. When you have just one or two flowers initially they can fall over so I will often cut off a bloom or two early on, but as the full spring flush happens all the flowers seem to support each other so they stand upright and proud in a towering crown of colour.

Landscape Gold will reward you with a display of flowers that is spectacular and a striking and memorable garden feature. I think the range should be re-named Tall, Tough and Spectacular.

It forms a mass of towering flowers decorated in a striking two-tone ‘fuzz’ of brightest yellow with vibrant red accents bejewelled with happy green ‘crowns’ as they open. I should say if you cut the dead flowers it will keep delivering more, but even without doing that the flowers are long lived, looking good for many months, no matter the weather.

If you can give it a raised bed and/or good drainage it will be happiest like any paw, but it will shrug off almost any kind of planting abuse you throw at it, so long as you give it a good feed in spring and summer and a good cut back in late summer or autumn.

Landscape Gold has sailed through extreme drought to flooding rains in my gardens, overcrowding and humidity while looking bright green, unblemished and healthy the whole time. It is so uncomplicated, not fussy and a welcome relief from the plants I have to fret over.