03/06/2026
Our Venus Protea are starting to bloom, and you will see them in some of our bouquets at Petal the Flower Cart from today. Venus had a rather late documented discovery in the 1920’s. It originated in the high, rugged mountains of the western Swartberg in South Africa, growing on ledges of inaccessible cliffs and rocky sandstone slopes at an altitude of 750–2,000 metres. Its conservation status is now ‘Vulnerable’ with an estimated remaining wild population or around 6,000 plants. Venus is a large bloom, and we think it is beautiful.