Pink Bottle Brush Shrub

The botanical name for bottlebrush sometimes written bottle brush is callistemon.

Pink bottle brush shrub. In color theory pink is a tint of red and the color shares with red flowers the ability to draw attention to itself. Bottlebrush is a medium sized evergreen shrub with leaves that are spiky and bright green with a citrusy aroma. Regular watering initially dry tolerant once established. These evergreen shrubs flower mostly in the spring and summer and can be found all over arizona nevada and new mexico.

These plants are easy care and great for attracting bees and nectar feeding birds to the garden. 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. Can tolerate most soil types very. Finely textured gray green foliage complements the profusion of showy bottlebrush like hot pink flowers.

This plant flowers heavily in spring and continues to flower during warm weather. A colorful waterwise shrub ideal for hot dry minimal care gardens. The flowers are spiky and like their name resemble a round hair brush. However it s the bottle brush shaped blooms in shades of pink red purple yellow green and white that make the plant truly distinctive.

Most bottlebrush varieties bloom over a long summer season in shades of red or crimson. Easily trained into a small scale specimen tree. Stiff bottlebrush callistemon perth pink. Shrubs with pink flowers or magenta flowers are valued for their vibrant colors.

Sharp pointed gray green sometimes purplish. Full sun to half shade. Cut stems are happy indoors and make a change from run of the mill cut flowers. Description we all like to grow something a bit different and this plant is a real beauty.

Its natural multi branched form is perfect for massing as an informal screen. Grow them as shrubs or small trees that grow up to 15 feet. 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. Dense full growth to 610 feet tall and wide with weeping branches and deep pink flowers to 6 inches long in spring and early summer.

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. Rigid sparse shrub or small tree to 20 feet with 10 feet spread. Flower color can be red pink or yellow. 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.

New growth is pink.