(Download) Pink Bottle Brush Shrub

The flower stalks for the albany bottlebrush tend to stay in the bright red or deep red pink range tipped with tiny pale yellow specks.

Pink bottle brush shrub. Description we all like to grow something a bit different and this plant is a real beauty. These evergreen shrubs flower mostly in the spring and summer and can be found all over arizona nevada and new mexico. Easily trained into a small scale specimen tree. Grow them as shrubs or small trees that grow up to 15 feet. Its natural multi branched form is perfect for massing as an informal screen. Bottlebrush plants callistemon spp are attractive shrubs or small trees with brush like flowers in shades of cream yellow pink or red that appear in spring and early summer. It loves a sheltered corner and is early to flower with frothy blooms in a warm shade of pink which attract plenty of bees and butterflies.

However it s the bottle brush shaped blooms in shades of pink red purple yellow green and white that make the plant truly distinctive. Cut stems are happy indoors and make a change from run of the mill cut flowers. Rigid sparse shrub or small tree to 20 feet with 10 feet spread. These plants are easy care and great for attracting bees and nectar feeding birds to the garden. Regular watering initially dry tolerant once established. Most bottlebrush varieties bloom over a long summer season in shades of red or crimson. The flowers are spiky and like their name resemble a round hair brush.

New growth is pink. Finely textured gray green foliage complements the profusion of showy bottlebrush like hot pink flowers. A colorful waterwise shrub ideal for hot dry minimal care gardens. This plant flowers heavily in spring and continues to flower during warm weather. Shrubs with pink flowers or magenta flowers are valued for their vibrant colors. Stiff bottlebrush callistemon perth pink. The botanical name for bottlebrush sometimes written bottle brush is callistemon.

The same can be said of magenta which is a reddish purple and similar shades. Flower color can be red pink or yellow. Zones ls cs ts. Full sun to half shade. Tree bottle brush can read up to 25 feet tall and 10 feet wide while bush bottle brush can be as short as 3 feet. Can tolerate most soil types very. Sharp pointed gray green sometimes purplish.

Bottlebrush plants callistemon spp get their name from the spikes of flowers that bloom at the ends of the stems bearing a strong resemblance to a bottle brush.