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. 

This information about Leucospermum pattersonii 'Brothers' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.