Plant in sun to light shade with good drainage and irrigate regularly to occasionally. We have customers who have reported that it does well in heavy soil although it is recommended that this plant be placed where drainage is good. It is hardy to about 20 degrees F and tolerates near coastal windy conditions. With its charteuse colored needle-like foliage this is a great plant for contrasting with other darker foliage colors and textures.

This one-time New Zealand "Shrub of the Year" was apparently first discovered in a garden in Western Australia and introduced into the US in the late 1980's when we first started growing it as Coleonema pulchrum 'Sunset Gold' but the plants in cultivation under the name Coleonema pulchrum are now considered to be to be Coleonema pulchellum. We also grow the full sized species Coleonema pulchellum , a darker pink flowering cultivar Coleonema pulchellum 'Dark Pink' and a compact form of this species Coleonema pulchellum 'Compact Form', as well as the white flowering species Coleonema album. 

The information displayed on this page about Coleonema pulchellum 'Sunset Gold' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.