Oh for heavens sake - I do know what this is, but I've forgotten the name. Like you, I went to all the trouble to find out what it was about 2 years ago and, as far as I recall, it was something that wasn't easy, or couldn't be, grown here... Hopefully I'll remember overnight if no one else names it...

Okay, I've got it - its one of the Leucadendrons, maybe safari sunset, or sylvan red, not sure, but they're a member of Protea family, and are tender here.

Well done Bamboo!
How did you remember?
Have just googled Leucadendrons and you are spot on!
I would never have found this otherwise. It really is a beautiful plant and so unusual. I see that couple of nurseries are selling them. However seem to be tender and since i am cold wet Scotland best not chance it
Many thanks for your help
regards
marion

I didn't recall its name at all, but it was driving me bonkers, so in the end, I did a google search on florist's foliage. Took a while, but I got it in the end. Soon as I saw the name, I knew it was that one, as I said, done this research before!

Bamboo, you have so much patience and never give up!

Patience, ha ha, everyone who knows me would be giving a hollow laugh hearing that. It's my very impatience that makes me so damned persistent, I'm like a dog with a bone, can't wait for it to just come to me, have to make a mission out of it and seek it out, lol. My usual approach is "there must be a way to do/get/find/resolve this or that..."