Plant in well-drained soil, along with full sun to ensure a bountiful bloom. It is drought tolerant and needs little to no summer irrigation. It is noted as also able to better tolerate alkaline conditions better than most other protea plants and is cold hardy to about 25 ° F, but winter flower buds can be damaged if temperatures dip down long to 28° F. Cut stems for flower arrangement or trim plants by early summer to not remove the stems that will initiate flowering in the next season. This is a great cut flower variety and also makes a very showy landscape plant. Its attractive broad pale green leaves are similar to Leucospermum conocarpodendron and the well known Leucospermum conocarpodendron hybrid 'Veldfire'.

Leucospermum patersonii is restricted to alkaline soils on limestone outcrops along the coast between Kleinmond and Cape Agulhas in South Africa. It was a plant first collected in the late 1600s but misidentified until recollected by a Mr. William Hugh Paterson (1873-1963), a schoolteacher, amateur botanist and mayor of Hermanus and then was described by the South African botanist Edwin Percy Phillips in 1928. This selection with long stems and showy large flowers for cut flower this purpose was made by Gary Brothers at Brothers Brothers Inc. cut flower company in Watsonville that operated from 1980 until 1998. 

The information displayed on this page about Leucospermum pattersonii 'Brothers' 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.