{"title":"Bottlebrush","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty seven bottlebrush listings, all Callistemon, all now filed under Melaleuca after a name change that altered labels and nothing else. Sort them by habit, not by flower. The dwarf mounds cannot screen anything. Twenty flower red. Of the seven that do not, willow bottlebrush is the cream one, Candelabra lemon, White Anzac white, pachyphyllus Green a yellow green, Candy Pink pink, Mauve Mist mauve, and Pink Champagne a paler haze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eUprights and clipped hedges\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-citrinus-endeavour\"\u003eCallistemon citrinus Endeavour\u003c\/a\u003e is the one grown as a cut face: dense low down, and more willing under shears than the rest of the genus. Eureka is the near neighbour, and the difference is finish: a screen grown out with one trim a year. It pushes vertically, so a row set too wide stays a line of separate columns with daylight between them. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-slim\"\u003eCallistemon viminalis SLIM\u003c\/a\u003e holds a column of foliage from the base up, which is what a bed a metre deep needs. It thins on any face jammed against a shaded wall. Candy Pink gives soft pink on a rounded shrub, but only in open sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe weeping forms\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-dawson-river-weeper\"\u003eDawson River Weeper\u003c\/a\u003e hangs hardest. Shear it flat and the regrowth returns stiff and upright, so the fall never comes back. Hannah Ray is the middle position, enough weep to read as one and enough tolerance of a trim to hold a boundary line. Captain Cook has no fall at all, a mounded dwarf for a low hedge under a window. All three sit in the weeping viminalis group, the cold tender end of this range. In an inland frost pocket around Orange young growth burns each winter, and a Captain Cook hedge never closes along the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe ones that make trees\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-kings-park-special\"\u003eKings Park Special\u003c\/a\u003e outgrows every other cultivar stocked here and arrives in a 200mm pot looking harmless. Under an eave, beneath powerlines or on a 900mm verge, the only remedy left is topping, and it never recovers. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-salignus\"\u003eWillow Bottlebrush\u003c\/a\u003e is the upright single trunked option, with white papery bark, and it handles cold better than the weepers. The straight weeping species runs surface roots that follow water into ageing clay drain lines and under slab edges. Keep it clear of both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWet ground, and the exception\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of this genus takes ground that stays wet for days after a storm, which is why bottlebrush belongs in swales and low corners on the basalt clay through Melbourne's west. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-little-john\"\u003eLittle John\u003c\/a\u003e is the exception, and the trap, because it is the name most buyers already know. It wants sharp drainage. In unimproved clay it thins and dies out plant by plant. Mound the bed first. The pachyphyllus Green wants acid sandy heath soil, so the calcareous sand behind the Perth coast will yellow it. For cold districts take Callistemon pallidus Candelabra, which sits through frost and is the only one here that reshoots readily from older wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePruning and grades\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut the week the brushes brown off, taking the spent flower and a short length of wood behind it, before the seed capsules lock onto the stem. Keep the cut in leafy wood. Bare old stems reshoot slowly and unevenly, and the gap stays for years. Shear on the same autumn round as everything else on the block and you remove the wood carrying next spring's brushes. That one error accounts for most bottlebrushes that never flower. Feed a native blend after the cut, and watch soft new growth for myrtle rust through a humid Brisbane summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen of the twenty seven start at 140mm, roughly 1.5 litres, the grade for a hedge run. Five start at a 70mm tube. Nine listings carry a 45L and four reach 100L, the only route to immediate height. Dawson River Weeper, Endeavour and MacArthur each appear twice under separate listings with different grade runs, so open both. Melaleuca cousins sit under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paperbark\"\u003epaperbark\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-pachyphyllus-green","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon pachyphyllus Green (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you have only ever seen red bottlebrushes, the green flowered form of Callistemon pachyphyllus is worth a look. The brushes open a soft yellow green that reads more as a foliage colour than a flower colour, so it sits alongside grey leaved natives instead of fighting them. The plant itself is a low, fairly open evergreen shrub with thick, stiff, narrow leaves, quite unlike the soft foliage of the common hybrids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a wallum species from the sandy coastal heaths of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, which tells you what it wants: acid, sandy, low fertility soil that can sit damp through a wet season. Alkaline or limey ground is the usual cause of yellowing and slow decline. Heavy clay is not impossible, but plant on a raised mound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoneyeaters find it quickly. Tip prune after flowering so the old woody capsules do not stack up along the stems. Stocked in 140mm and 200mm across four farms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 25L, priced from $16.95 to $119.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"25L","offer_id":64308510261617,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308510294385,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308510327153,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/yC782vCcRVaT1L9GJ71IT_5UP5rVwe.jpg?v=1787627335"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-red-rocket","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Red Rocket (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo things decide whether a red bottlebrush still looks good in five years, and neither is on the label. The first is pruning. Cut the spent brushes off as soon as flowering finishes, before the woody seed capsules set and start stacking in rings along the stems. Skip that for a few seasons and you get a bare, knuckly plant carrying foliage only at the tips. The second is sun. Anything less than most of the day and it stretches and flowers thinly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed Rocket is grown for an upright habit and strong red brushes, and it gets used the way red bottlebrushes usually are: screening along boundaries, informal hedging, and pulling honeyeaters and lorikeets into a garden. It is evergreen, moderate growing and undemanding on water once established, though it will accept more moisture than most natives without sulking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree sizes are stocked, 140mm, 200mm and 5 litre, across four farms, so a hedge run can be matched for size from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 5L, priced from $18.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64308511998321,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308512031089,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308512063857,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/MhcvsmxcF3apxpsU5rroo_jjF1ZqyM.jpg?v=1787627335"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-subulatus","title":"Dwarf Bottlebrush - Callistemon subulatus (Melaleuca subulata)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere a bed stays damp, or the ground along a dam edge or a swale never quite dries out, this is the bottlebrush to reach for. Callistemon subulatus grows naturally along creeks and rocky riverbeds in eastern Victoria and southern New South Wales, and it tolerates the periodic wet feet that would rot most native shrubs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is far finer in the hand than the common hybrids. The leaves are short, narrow and almost needle like, the habit is small and arching rather than upright, and the red brushes are correspondingly small, carried through the warmer months. That fine texture makes it useful as a low informal hedge, a soft mound at the front of a native border, or a rain garden and bioswale planting. It is frost hardy and takes full sun or dappled shade, though flowering drops away in real shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrim lightly after flowering to hold it compact. Stocked in 140mm and 200mm from one farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $19.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308513309041,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308513341809,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/yGMxIPWdW7Vp9qFemm0yj_edRvtIKK.jpg?v=1787627336"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-better-john","title":"Weeping Bottlebrush - Callistemon viminalis Better John (Melaleuca viminalis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo not expect the big weeping street tree that older bottlebrush plantings bring to mind. Better John is a compact, densely branched selection of Callistemon viminalis, chosen to stay shrub sized and to break from low down, which is what makes it work as a clipped informal hedge or a low screen along a fenceline rather than something you limb up into a tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed brushes come through the warmer months with a lighter repeat later on, and honeyeaters and lorikeets find them within days. New growth flushes soft and bronze pink before hardening off to grey green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune as the brushes finish, taking the spent flower with a short length of stem behind it. That one habit keeps the bush dense; skip it for a couple of seasons and the plant opens up and goes woody at the base. Watch for sawfly larvae clustered on soft shoots, and be aware that myrtle rust attacks new growth in humid coastal parts of Queensland and New South Wales. Water needs are low to moderate once it is established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308514554225,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308514586993,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/Zu4gmwHrtpeUBA0C9wLvz_AXtwhsYL.jpg?v=1787627335"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-pink-champagne","title":"Weeping Bottlebrush - Callistemon viminalis Pink Champagne (Melaleuca viminalis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWill it read pink from the street? Not the way a red bottlebrush reads red. Pink Champagne carries soft, pale pink brushes that sit lightly against grey green foliage, and at a distance the effect is closer to a haze than a signal. Up close it is the more interesting flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe habit is classic weeping viminalis: arching outer limbs, pendulous branchlets and narrow leaves that move in any breeze. Left alone it builds into a small tree with a domed weeping crown. Kept trimmed it makes a soft screen. Decide early, because taking the lower limbs off a mature plant leaves obvious scars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt copes with low to moderate water once established and tolerates soils that stay damp for periods, which is why it turns up in swale and basin planting. Fed and watered hard it grows fast and soft, and fast growth means brittle limbs, so avoid pushing it in exposed windy sites. Sizes here run from 70mm tubes through to 45L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 70mm up to 45L, priced from $16.95 to $229.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"25L","offer_id":64308517568881,"sku":null,"price":139.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308517601649,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308517634417,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308517667185,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308517699953,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308517732721,"sku":null,"price":91.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308517765489,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70mm","offer_id":64311674962289,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/o4stW4RZKynSd8fr8zf6c_n1Pcal5b.jpg?v=1787627336"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-hannah-ray","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Hannah Ray (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHannah Ray weeps and screens at the same time, which not every pendulous cultivar manages. It reaches around four metres with pendulous outer branches, and the difference you notice first is foliage rather than flower: new growth breaks soft silvery pink and hardens to grey green, so the plant reads cooler and lighter than the deep green cultivars standing beside it. Red brushes hang out on the drooping tips where you can see them instead of sitting buried in the bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGive it the width or lose the point\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe branches need somewhere to fall. Squeezed into a 600mm bed beside a path and then cut back every time it leans over the pavers, Hannah Ray loses the pendulous tips that are the whole reason to buy it, and what remains is a stubbed cylinder of grey twigs that any upright cultivar would have given you for less. Allow a bed at least two metres deep, or plant something else in the tight spot. In a row screen, set plants 1.5 to two metres apart, remembering that each canopy needs room to hang and not merely room to stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt suits coastal and near coastal gardens from southern Queensland through New South Wales and into Victoria, and does as well in the drier air of Adelaide and Perth. Salt laden wind does not trouble it, which is why it turns up in beachside streets. Clay and brief puddling after heavy rain are both fine. Water deeply and infrequently while it establishes, then ease back, because the grey cast in the foliage holds better on a plant that is not being over watered, and that grey is a large part of what you are paying for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe weeping forms, ranked by commitment\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-dawson-river-weeper\"\u003eDawson River Weeper\u003c\/a\u003e hangs harder and is grown as a specimen where nobody takes shears to it. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-captain-cook\"\u003eCaptain Cook\u003c\/a\u003e is the mounded dwarf at the other end, low hedge material with no real fall to it. Hannah Ray is the middle position: enough weep to look like a weeping bottlebrush, enough tolerance of a trim to hold a screen line along a boundary. It is also the pick for an exposed coastal site, where the silver in the new growth reads more strongly than it does in a sheltered garden. More options are grouped under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrimming without flattening it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow the fall of the branch. Tip prune just below the spent brushes as each flush finishes, and let the outline stay uneven rather than cutting a hard line across the face. Old bare wood recovers slowly here and often stays gappy, so do not chase a shape by cutting hard into it; on a plant this size a mistake takes two seasons to grow out. Check soft new growth for sawfly larvae in spring and for scale on any plant under water stress, both simple to deal with early. Put any fertiliser out at the drip line rather than against the trunk, and hold off reshaping until the plant has been in the ground two full seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 9 sizes, from 125mm up to 45L, priced from $16.95 to $229.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"125mm","offer_id":64311345873265,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311345906033,"sku":null,"price":95.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311345938801,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311345971569,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311346037105,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311346069873,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311346102641,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311346135409,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311346168177,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10L","offer_id":64446156243313,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-hannah-ray-bottlebrush-callistemon-hannah-ray-20260611_990b174c-6337-4747-b2a0-95fd5b6fdc08.png?v=1785551604"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-little-john","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Little John (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt about a metre high and as much across, Little John stays a dense rounded mound where the rest of the genus builds a shrub or a small tree. The fine blue grey foliage is half the reason it gets specified: it holds that tone through winter and sits well against rendered walls, pale gravel and hard paving. Brushes are deep blood red, heaviest in spring with a lighter repeat later, and they sit low enough to bring honeyeaters down to eye level. Low clipped borders, front of house mass plantings and driveway runs where a taller shrub would block the sightline are where it belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDrainage decides it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the one place Little John parts company with the rest of the genus. Most bottlebrushes shrug off heavy, wet ground and several of them prefer it. Little John does not. In unimproved clay or a bed that stays soggy it thins, browns off in patches and dies out plant by plant, usually the season after a wet summer, and a mass planting with three holes in it cannot be patched invisibly. Mound the bed, work in coarse gritty material and sort the drainage out before anything goes in the ground, because there is no correcting it afterwards. In a container the same rule bites harder: a free draining native mix, and never a saucer left standing with water in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtherwise it is straightforward through temperate and subtropical gardens, and it takes light to moderate frost better than the weeping forms do. Full sun gives the tightest, greyest growth. For a low border, plant 600 to 750mm apart so the mounds meet without crowding; for a broader mass, a metre lets each plant keep its own outline. Once established, keep it on the lean side, since a plant pushed hard with water loses the compact shape you bought it for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat it cannot do\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt will never screen anything, which is worth saying plainly, because it is the bottlebrush most people already know by name and it gets bought for jobs it cannot take. For privacy along a boundary, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-eureka\"\u003eEureka\u003c\/a\u003e is the upright form to look at. If you want something compact but the corner is damp, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-captain-cook\"\u003eCaptain Cook\u003c\/a\u003e is the larger dwarf that tolerates wet ground where Little John will sulk. Choose Little John for grey foliage, tight habit and genuinely low height on ground that drains. It sits alongside the rest of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/natives\"\u003enatives\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKeeping the mound tight\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight and often beats one hard cut a year. Tip prune after each flush, taking the spent brushes and little more, because a plant allowed to go woody turns gappy and will not fill back in from bare stems. Do not tidy it in late winter: that removes the wood carrying the spring brushes and leaves you with a neat green ball and nothing on it. Feed sparingly in early spring and keep the mulch thin right around the crown so the base stays dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 70mm up to 430mm, priced from $16.95 to $259.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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Candy Pink opens a soft pink that often leans towards mauve, on a rounded, well branched shrub of about two to three metres with a similar spread. New growth flushes pinkish bronze before it hardens to green, so there is a second and quieter colour event running through the warmer months. It is bought for mixed native borders, informal hedging, and bird planting close enough to the house that you can watch it work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere the pink actually shows\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePale flowers need light behind them. In an open sunny position the brushes read clearly against the foliage. Pushed into the shade of a south facing fence or under the skirt of an established tree, the pink washes out to a dirty white, flowering thins to a scatter, and the bush opens into a frame that no amount of pruning will thicken. A few hours of shade a day is fine. Deep shade for most of the day is the one siting mistake that costs you the entire reason for choosing this cultivar over a red one. Colour clash runs the other way and works in its favour: soft pink sits quietly against red brick, terracotta roof tiles and warm sandstone, where a red bottlebrush argues with all three.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond light it asks little. It is dependable through temperate and subtropical gardens on the eastern seaboard and holds up in the dry summers of Adelaide and Perth once the roots are down. Heavy clay suits it, as does a low corner that holds water for a day or two after a storm. Dig a wide hole rather than a deep one, keep mulch clear of the stem, and set plants 1.2 to 1.5 metres apart for an informal hedge so the canopies knit instead of being clipped to a face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePink at other heights\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no straight substitute for the colour in this range, so any alternative is a trade of flower for habit. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-little-john\"\u003eLittle John\u003c\/a\u003e gives you a knee high mound with a similarly soft look in the leaf, blue grey rather than green, but its brushes are deep red. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-eureka\"\u003eEureka\u003c\/a\u003e is the answer when privacy outranks flower colour, growing upright and closing a boundary that Candy Pink would take years to fill. More colour choices sit in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flowering\"\u003eflowering\u003c\/a\u003e range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCutting for next season\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune the week the brushes fade, not a month later. Callistemons set hard woody seed capsules straight after flowering, and once a cluster locks onto a stem the plant stops branching from that point and the capsules sit there for years. A light shear taken back behind the spent flowers keeps the shrub dense and roughly doubles the wood available to flower the following season. Stay out of bare old stems, which reshoot slowly and unevenly. One feed of a slow release native blend as the weather warms is all it asks for the year. Nectar feeders arrive with the flowers, so if you would rather watch honeyeaters than tidy the plant to the last stem, leave a few brushes on the outer branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 140mm up to 400mm, priced from $16.95 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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Left to run it becomes a small tree with arching limbs and papery bark down the trunk, and the brushes are bright red and noticeably longer than those of the compact forms, heaviest in spring with a second showing later in the season. Foliage is narrow and grey green, faintly pink as it emerges. It goes in where a screen has to reach well above head height, or as a small shade and bird tree standing in lawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMeasure the space before you dig\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mistake this one attracts is siting. It arrives as a 200mm pot, gets treated as a shrub, and ends up under an eave, beneath powerlines or in a 900mm verge, where the only remedy left a few years on is topping. A topped Kings Park Special does not recover its shape: you get a flat crown, a rush of vertical shoots off the cuts and years of chasing it back. Check the mature height and spread against the position first. Growth is steady rather than explosive, and that is part of the trap, because the plant is unalarming for the first three or four years and by the time it is plainly too big for the spot it is too well established to move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGround it will tolerate\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection came out of Kings Park in Perth, and it is among the more adaptable bottlebrushes on offer: coastal wind, inland heat, heavy clay and periods of waterlogging that would rot most ornamental trees. It wants an open aspect and gets by on modest water once the roots are down. For a tall screen allow 1.5 to two metres between plants and accept a broad informal wall rather than a crisp hedge. It is one of the few flowering trees that will hold in a low corner which floods briefly each summer, so it earns a place where other things have already died. Keep mulch off the trunk and water deeply rather than often.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHeight, or a hedge, or neither\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-eureka\"\u003eEureka\u003c\/a\u003e, which stays tighter and lower and holds a narrow line along a fence, this is the one to choose when the wall you are screening is two storeys and Eureka would simply not reach it. Against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-citrinus-endeavour\"\u003eEndeavour\u003c\/a\u003e, which takes hedging shears and can be held as a clipped block, Kings Park Special is happier grown loose and full sized. Take it for height and canopy, Endeavour for a cut face, Eureka for a modest suburban screen. On a narrow verge or in a courtyard none of the three belongs and a dwarf form is the honest answer. Larger sizes are grouped under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/advanced-trees\"\u003eadvanced trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShaping a young plant\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut back into green wood as each flush finishes, before the woody seed capsules lock up the stem, and the base stays clothed instead of hollowing into the twiggy look untended plants fall into. If you want a single trunk with clearance beneath it, remove the lowest limbs progressively across the first few years rather than in one session, while the wounds are still small. Sawfly larvae turn up on soft tips in spring but rarely do lasting damage to a plant this size. One application of a native blend as growth starts in spring covers a tree of this size for the year. Once it is flowering at height it becomes a standing food source for nectar feeders rather than a seasonal visit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 17 sizes, from 70mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311383064945,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm Squat","offer_id":64311383097713,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311383130481,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25L","offer_id":64311383228785,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311383261553,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64311383327089,"sku":null,"price":459.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311383359857,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311383425393,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70mm","offer_id":64311383458161,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311383490929,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30L","offer_id":64311383523697,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311383556465,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1.5L","offer_id":64311383589233,"sku":null,"price":72.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311383654769,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311383687537,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311383720305,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311383818609,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10L","offer_id":64446160208241,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"20L","offer_id":64446160241009,"sku":null,"price":139.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"143mm","offer_id":64446160273777,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"420mm","offer_id":64446160306545,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"8L","offer_id":64446160339313,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-kings-park-special-bottlebrush-callistemon-kings-park-special_6fb97295-3de5-4c0f-b7e1-5860f539f70b.png?v=1785551700"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-harkness","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Harkness (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf the red bottlebrushes in cultivation, Harkness carries some of the largest brushes, and they are held out on the ends of arching new growth where honeyeaters and lorikeets can get at them. It is also sold as Gawler Hybrid, and you will see the genus written as Melaleuca on some labels since the botanists moved Callistemon across. The plant is the same either way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrown unclipped it makes a tall, open shrub or a small multi trunked tree, which suits a screen along a fenceline. Clipped, it thickens into a hedge, but timing decides the result: cut back once flowering finishes and before the seed capsules set hard, taking off the spent brush and a little of the wood behind it. Cutting deep into bare old stems is much slower to recover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun gives the heaviest flowering, and it copes with heavy soil, seasonal wet feet and dry spells once established. Stock runs from small pots through to advanced 30L for immediate screening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 140mm up to 400mm, priced from $17.95 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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SLIM is the usual answer. It was selected for a naturally narrow, upright habit, so it holds a column of foliage from the base up without the constant shearing a standard viminalis needs to stay tidy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine, soft, slightly weeping foliage clothes the stems, and the red brushes come through the warmer months with a lighter repeat later on. Nectar feeders find it within days, which is the practical side of the bird attracting note in the spec table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo things to watch. It needs light on both sides to stay dense, so planted hard against a shaded wall it will thin on that face. And sawfly larvae, the black clustering spitfires, can strip young growth overnight in spring, so check the tips regularly. Feed with a low phosphorus native food and tip prune after each flush rather than cutting into old bare wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 9 sizes, from 140mm up to 75L, priced from $16.95 to $449.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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It is a dwarf form of that species: dense, rounded and mounded rather than pendulous, settling at roughly 1.5 to two metres. New growth flushes soft pink to bronze before hardening to narrow deep green leaves, and bright red brushes come through spring with a scattered repeat later. Low hedges under windows, repeated masses along a path and clipped shapes in a native courtyard are the usual jobs. If the sightline you need covered sits above two metres, this is the wrong plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCold is the limit, not wet\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing a selection off a creek margin species, it takes a damp corner as readily as a dry one, so it goes in where drainage is imperfect and other low hedging plants have already failed. What it will not take is a genuine inland frost pocket. Young growth burns off over winter, the plant spends the following season repairing rather than building, and repeated damage leaves a hedge that never closes properly and stays ragged along the top. Established plants handle light frost without fuss. In a cold garden, give a young one a sheltered position with the morning sun off it, or choose a different cultivar and save yourself three seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtherwise it suits subtropical and warm temperate gardens, and coastal sites in particular, where it handles salt wind without burning. Sun for most of the day gives the tightest face, and part shade is workable. Set plants at a metre for a hedge and 1.5 metres for a loose mass so each mound keeps its own outline. Dig the hole twice as wide as the pot and no deeper, firm it in and keep water up through the first summer. After that, a hedge kept slightly lean stays denser than one pushed along with water and feed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe two plants people mix it up with\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis\"\u003ethe weeping bottlebrush species\u003c\/a\u003e, the parentage and the tolerance of wet are the same and the scale is not: one is a small tree, this stays under a window. Against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-little-john\"\u003eLittle John\u003c\/a\u003e, Captain Cook is the larger dwarf, greener in the leaf and far more forgiving of heavy or damp soil, while Little John gives grey foliage at half the height and needs sharp drainage to hold it. Take Captain Cook for a low hedge in ordinary garden soil. Other low screening options sit under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClipping a dwarf\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShear lightly and often rather than hard and rarely. Prune straight after each flush, before the buds for the next season set, and stay out of bare old wood, because a dwarf left woody holds the hole for years and a mounded plant shows a hole from every angle. Watch for scale and the sooty mould that follows it, and for webbing caterpillar drawing the tips together in summer. Keep any feeding light, because an overfed hedge puts on soft growth that flops out of the face and has to be cut off again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 7 sizes, from 70mm up to 45L, priced from $16.95 to $229.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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It grows as a small tree of about four to five metres, with silvery pink new growth on the drooping tips, narrow grey green leaves, and red brushes coming heavily in spring with a second run later. It is a feature tree for a lawn, an entry statement beside a drive, or a tall informal screen where the branches have room to fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePut the hedge trimmer away\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShear this cultivar into a ball or a flat faced hedge and you have removed the only thing separating it from every other red bottlebrush on the list. Worse, regrowth off a stubbed cut comes back stiff and upright rather than pendulous, so the fall does not return: you have permanently converted it into a plain upright shrub that cost you more. If the site calls for a clipped hedge, buy a different plant. This one is grown loose or not at all, and since the branches lengthen and the fall improves with every year, patience pays better here than shears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGetting the shape started\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt performs through subtropical and warm temperate gardens across Queensland, New South Wales and coastal Victoria, and adapts to Adelaide and Perth with water through the first summers. Like the parent species it handles wet ground and creek banks better than most trees you would plant near water, and tolerates dry once settled. An open position suits it and part shade is tolerated. For a clear trunk, remove the low branches early and stake it properly at planting, because a young plant left to itself sprawls and leans away from the prevailing wind, and a leaning trunk cannot be straightened later. Used as an informal screen, allow around three metres between plants. Go easy with fertiliser: soft rushed growth stands up instead of hanging, so once a year in early spring at the drip line is plenty, and less does more good than more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow it sits against the other weepers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-hannah-ray\"\u003eHannah Ray\u003c\/a\u003e weeps moderately and tolerates trimming, which makes it the one for a boundary that has to be kept in bounds; take Dawson River Weeper when the plant is meant to be looked at rather than to hide something. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis\"\u003eThe weeping bottlebrush species\u003c\/a\u003e falls less strongly and grows larger, so this is the more manageable choice on a suburban block. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-captain-cook\"\u003eCaptain Cook\u003c\/a\u003e shares the parentage but is a mounded dwarf with no fall at all, so do not buy it expecting a scaled down version of this plant. Larger stock sits under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/advanced-trees\"\u003eadvanced trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMinimal pruning\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShorten the spent brushes back to the first healthy growth behind them once flowering finishes, take out anything crossing or rubbing, and stop there. Formative work on the trunk belongs in the first few years while the wounds are small. Sawfly larvae cluster on the tips in spring and strip new growth fast, so hose them off as soon as you spot them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 140mm up to 45L, priced from $16.95 to $259.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311428645233,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311428678001,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311428710769,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311428776305,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311428809073,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311428874609,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311428907377,"sku":null,"price":259.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311428972913,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20L","offer_id":64446164402545,"sku":null,"price":139.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-dawson-river-weeper-bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-dawson-river-weeper_ab7849a2-8d56-4dcd-9d37-a9974f29a58f.png?v=1785551793"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-citrinus-endeavour","title":"Crimson Bottlebrush - Callistemon citrinus Endeavour (Melaleuca citrina)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEndeavour goes in as a hedge far more often than as a specimen. It makes a solid upright shrub or small tree of around two to three metres with real density low down, and it takes hedging shears more willingly than others in this genus, which is the whole case for choosing it. Brushes are deep red with gold anther tips. Crush a leaf and you get the lemon scent behind the old species name citrinus, now carried under Melaleuca citrina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe trap is the calendar\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause it clips so readily, people put Endeavour on the same schedule as the rest of their hedges and shear it in late summer or autumn along with everything else. That cut removes precisely the wood carrying the following spring brushes. The result is a tidy green hedge that never flowers, year after year, and the owner concludes the plant is a dud. Cut when flowering finishes, take one light tip trim in early summer if the face needs tightening, then leave the shears in the shed until the brushes have come and gone again. The timing matters more here than elsewhere in the genus for a simple reason: nothing else in this range gets clipped four times a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBuilding the frame\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is at home from southern Queensland through coastal and inland New South Wales into Victoria and South Australia, and copes with a Perth summer given water in the establishment years. It wants sun for most of the day, though it will hold a face in part shade. Heavy clay and ground that holds water briefly after storms do not trouble it, which makes it a sensible replacement in a wet corner where a row of exotic hedging shrubs has already failed. Plant one to 1.2 metres apart for a clipped hedge and 1.5 metres for a looser screen, and water through the first two summers, because a hedge only ever ends up as dense at the base as the growth it laid down in its first year. Start trimming from the first season rather than waiting for it to reach height.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHedge, screen or mound\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-little-john\"\u003eLittle John\u003c\/a\u003e is worth considering only where height is not wanted, since a dwarf mound cannot cover a fence however many you plant. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-kings-park-special\"\u003eKings Park Special\u003c\/a\u003e runs the other way, too large and too arching to hold a cut face without constant work. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-eureka\"\u003eEureka\u003c\/a\u003e is the near neighbour, and the difference is finish: Eureka for an informal screen grown out, Endeavour where the face is cut to a line. Related options sit under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePests on a clipped plant\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tightly sheared hedge holds still air inside it, and that is where the trouble starts. Scale settles on the interior stems and sooty mould follows on the honeydew, both worse in humid corners with no air movement, so thin the occasional branch out of the middle instead of only cutting the outside. Sawfly larvae cluster on young shoots in spring and are easy to knock off early. Feed once after the main prune with a fertiliser formulated for natives, then water it in thoroughly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 12 sizes, from 70mm up to 75L, priced from $16.95 to $449.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"70mm","offer_id":64311429267825,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311429300593,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311429333361,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311429366129,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311429398897,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311429431665,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64311429464433,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311429497201,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311429529969,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"35L","offer_id":64311429562737,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311429595505,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"125mm","offer_id":64311429628273,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-callistemon-citrinus-endeavour-callistemon-citrinus-endeavour-20260609_a730b387-00c5-41f4-b2cf-c9c7d1ce9286.png?v=1785551796"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-macarthur","title":"Weeping Bottlebrush - Callistemon viminalis MACARTHUR (Melaleuca viminalis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compact, weeping form of the common weeping bottlebrush, Macarthur keeps the pendulous branchlets and deep red brushes of the species on a plant scaled for a suburban block rather than a paddock. Flowering peaks in spring with a lighter repeat later on, and honeyeaters and lorikeets find it within days of the first brushes opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCallistemon viminalis grows along creek lines in the wild, so unlike most natives it will take a damp corner or ground that stays heavy after rain, while still coping when conditions dry out. That makes it genuinely useful along swales and low points where other screening shrubs sulk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTip prune as soon as the brushes brown off, which keeps growth dense and brings on the next flush\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWatch soft new growth in humid weather for myrtle rust, seen as yellow powdery spotting on the tips\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCheck for sawfly larvae clustered on stems and for caterpillars webbing leaves together\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eStocked in 140mm, 200mm and 300mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 300mm, priced from $18.95 to $109.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311446995313,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311447028081,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311447060849,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/xFUkVSEolsyIGwnXJ2pW_WnTtey5K.jpg?v=1787629643"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-salignus","title":"Willow Bottlebrush - Callistemon salignus (Melaleuca salicina)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost people buy a bottlebrush for red flowers. The willow bottlebrush does not oblige. Its brushes are pale creamy yellow, its trunk carries white papery bark, and the display it is actually planted for is the spring flush of new growth, pink to bronze red right across the canopy against fine willow like leaves. It makes an upright small tree of around six to eight metres, taller in deep moist ground, and it is used as a street and verge tree, a windbreak line, or a tall screen over a clean trunk. Nectar feeders work the cream brushes as hard as they work the red ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIt will not carry a dry start\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a creek margin tree. Planted into shallow ground already full of the roots of an established gum, then left to fend for itself, it sits sparse and stunted for years, and the two features it was bought for never arrive: the canopy stays thin and the trunk never colours up to clean white bark. Give it an open position away from established root competition, water it deeply through the first two summers rather than lightly and often, and mulch a wide ring to keep grass and shrubs off the base. A tree that gets that start moves along steadily. One that does not may never catch up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere it will grow\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt occurs naturally along creeks and swamp margins on the east coast, which explains the two traits that matter in cultivation: it copes with heavy soil and with ground that stays wet for a period, and it takes cold better than the weeping bottlebrushes do, so it suits the tablelands and cooler inland gardens as well as the coast. Give it an open aspect, modest water once established, and expect steady rather than rapid growth. As a windbreak or screen line, space plants two to three metres apart. On a verge, check the mature spread against the footpath and the kerb before you dig, and site it so the trunk stays visible, because keeping shrubs back from the base is what lets the bark do its work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe cream one\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-kings-park-special\"\u003eKings Park Special\u003c\/a\u003e the difference is character more than size: that cultivar is broad, arching and bright red, while this is upright and single trunked with quiet flowers, and reads as a street tree rather than a shrub. Against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis\"\u003ethe weeping bottlebrush\u003c\/a\u003e, which shares the tolerance of damp ground, salignus holds its branches up instead of letting them fall. Nothing else in this range carries a cream brush, so if that colour is the reason you are here the decision is already made. Large specimens sit under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mature-trees-100l\"\u003emature trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrunk and canopy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune straight after flowering, cutting back behind the spent brushes into leafy wood, or it thins out, goes leggy and top heavy and stops working as a screen. Where clearance under the canopy is the point, lift the lower limbs progressively over several years rather than in one cut. An older tree that has been left alone does respond to a staged reduction, but it is slow going, so the annual trim is the cheaper habit. Fertiliser is optional once the tree is away, and on a young one it is better spent on a thick mulch ring than on the bag. You will also see it listed as Melaleuca salicina since the botanists moved it across.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 7 sizes, from 140mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311450141041,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311450173809,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311450206577,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311450239345,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311450272113,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311450304881,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311450403185,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12L","offer_id":64446167253361,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-white-bottlebrush-callistemon-salignus-20260609_a91b92ae-67e8-44c6-ac91-b1c4e88a5912.png?v=1785551863"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-mauve-mist","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Mauve Mist (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMauve Mist is the bottlebrush for gardeners who do not want red. The brushes open in soft mauve and pink tones then fade as they age, so a plant in full flush carries several shades at once. Growth is moderate and upright, and it takes shaping better than most natives, which is why it works as an informal screen along a fence line or a clipped native hedge that honeyeaters visit. The label may read Callistemon or Melaleuca; botanists moved the genus, and it is the same shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWet ground, salt wind and one date in the calendar\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBottlebrush suits gardens from Melbourne up through the subtropics, and Mauve Mist is not fussy about soil. It takes clay, sand and made ground, tolerates periodically wet or poorly drained spots better than almost any other flowering shrub sold for hedging, and stands up to coastal wind. Full sun gives the heaviest flowering and part shade thins it, and water needs are low to moderate once the roots are down. For a screen, plant about a metre apart and let the plants meet, or 600 to 800mm apart for a tighter clipped hedge. The failure mode is timing, not culture. Bottlebrush sets next season's buds on the growth that follows flowering, so a shrub sheared in late autumn or winter, or trimmed on the same schedule as everything else on the block, will grow strongly and never flower again. Gardeners then assume the plant is faulty. It is not. Cut it in the weeks straight after the brushes brown off and the display comes back. Watch for scale and the sooty mould that follows it, and for sawfly larvae clustered along young shoots in warm weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNative screen or clipped exotic hedge\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin this batch the real cross shop is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/escallonia-iveyi\"\u003eEscallonia Iveyi\u003c\/a\u003e. Both make dense flowering hedges, but they belong in different climates: escallonia is happiest in the cooler, drier coastal gardens of the south and sulks through a humid summer, while Mauve Mist is the safer bet in Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast or any garden where February is wet. Escallonia also clips harder into a formal face, so take it if the hedge has to hold a crisp line. If the boundary you are covering is a fence rather than a garden bed, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pandorea-jasminoides-pink-magic\"\u003ePandorea Pink Magic\u003c\/a\u003e gets height with almost no ground width, which is the trade a narrow side passage usually needs. See the rest of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003escreening range\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePrune after the brushes, feed like a native\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrune once a year, immediately after flowering, cutting back into the wood just behind the spent brushes rather than shearing the outer leaves only. That single cut thickens the plant and sets up the next display. Hard renovation into older wood is possible with bottlebrush and it does reshoot, but do it in spring rather than heading into cold weather. Feed with a native or low phosphorus fertiliser in early spring and again after the main flush; standard rose and citrus foods carry more phosphorus than this family wants. A layer of coarse mulch kept off the trunk holds moisture through the first two summers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $19.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311452664177,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-mauve-mist-bottlebrush-callistemon-mauve-mist-20260609_f7efbdf6-fbbd-4dd7-adf6-5b10a9b4402f.png?v=1785551873"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis","title":"Weeping Bottlebrush - Callistemon viminalis (Melaleuca viminalis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the true weeping bottlebrush, the species standing behind most of the weeping cultivars sold here. It grows into a small tree of roughly five to eight metres with fine foliage carried on genuinely pendulous branches that hang and sway, red brushes in a heavy spring flush and a lighter one later. It occurs naturally along watercourses through eastern Australia, and that origin is the practical point: it goes in where the ground stays damp, over a low corner, along a creek bank, or as a screen on a wet boundary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWet ground is the reason to plant it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere a drain line, a swale or a low corner holds water for days after heavy rain, most screening plants rot at the collar. This one does not, and it still holds through a dry summer once the roots are down. Subtropical and warm temperate gardens through Queensland, New South Wales and coastal Victoria suit it, and it does well in Perth and Adelaide with water while it establishes. Young plants are the tender ones in cold inland gardens; a mature tree is considerably tougher. For a row screen, allow 2.5 to three metres between plants so each canopy hangs clear of the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKeep it away from pipes and paving\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe appetite for moisture that makes it useful also makes it a poor neighbour for infrastructure. It carries an active surface root system that follows water, and a tree set a couple of metres from a slab edge, a paved path or an ageing clay drain line will in time lift the paving and find the joints in the pipe. Site it clear of both, at a distance that at least matches the canopy spread you are expecting, and it is an undemanding tree. Put it in a courtyard or on a narrow verge and the cost lands on somebody a decade later. The mulch ring matters as well on a tree standing in lawn, where damage to the base from the mower and the whipper snipper is the common injury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecies or selection\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe named forms exist because the species is large. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-dawson-river-weeper\"\u003eDawson River Weeper\u003c\/a\u003e has longer, whip like branches and a stronger fall in a smaller frame. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-captain-cook\"\u003eCaptain Cook\u003c\/a\u003e is the dwarf for hedges under a window. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-hannah-ray\"\u003eHannah Ray\u003c\/a\u003e sits between the two with grey green foliage at screening height. Take the straight species when you want the full tree, a genuine canopy over damp ground and a bird roost rather than a shrub, and take a cultivar when the space is measured in metres rather than tens of metres. The full genus sits under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/bottlebrush\"\u003ebottlebrush\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCare of a young tree\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTip prune right after each flowering, cutting back behind the spent brushes, since unpruned plants go woody and see through from below. If you want a clear trunk, lift the lower limbs gradually across the first several years. Sawfly larvae gather in dark clumps on the branches in spring and can strip foliage quickly, so knock them off as soon as you see them; the tree refoliates, but a young one loses a season of growth doing it. Bottlebrushes are not as sensitive to phosphorus as the proteaceous natives, so a general fertiliser will not harm this tree, though a native blend spread at the drip line in early spring is the simpler habit. It is now classified as Melaleuca viminalis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 330mm, priced from $16.95 to $149.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311466754417,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311466819953,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311466852721,"sku":null,"price":92.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64446169547121,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-callistemon-prolific-callistemon-viminalis-20260611_eaaf65e7-f6c1-46ae-b4af-ad931a3296cc.png?v=1785551922"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-endeavour","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Endeavour (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEndeavour is one of the older bright red bottlebrushes still worth planting, a medium upright shrub that flushes brushes along the stems in spring and often gives a lighter repeat in autumn. Honeyeaters and lorikeets find it within days of the first brushes opening. Left alone it makes a loose screen; clipped, it holds a reasonable hedge, though flowering suffers if you shear it at the wrong moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiming is the whole trick with bottlebrushes. Prune as soon as the brushes brown off, cutting back past the spent flower into the wood behind it. Skip that for a few years and you are left with woody knuckles of old seed capsules, bare legs and flowers only at the tips. Botanists have moved Callistemon into Melaleuca, so both names turn up on labels for the same plant. Watch for scale and the sooty mould that follows it on plants under water stress, usually a sign the root zone has been allowed to dry out. Available in 250mm and 5lt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 5L up to 250mm, priced from $29.95 to $59.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These mid-range sizes balance establishment speed against immediate presence, and they are the usual choice for general garden planting. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311468327281,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311468360049,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/it5Oq7YsUuTu-zbsA5KYy_Gq00C93M.jpg?v=1787629790"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-lc01-pbr-macarthur-tm","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon 'LC01' PBR MacArthur TM (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does a named bottlebrush give you that a seedling one does not? Consistency. Every plant of Callistemon LC01 MacArthur comes from the same parent, so a hedge or screen grows at one rate, holds the same fine leaved density and flowers at the same time, which matters when a run has to look even from the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpect the usual callistemon strengths: red brushes through the warmer months that honeyeaters and lorikeets work over, tolerance of full sun through to part shade, low to moderate water once established, and a real tolerance of ground that stays wet, which makes it useful in swales and low spots where other screening shrubs drown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiming the prune is the main skill. Cut straight after flowering, before the woody seed capsules set along the stems, and take a little more than just the spent flower so the plant branches below the cut. Left unpruned, callistemons go leggy and gappy at the base. Watch for sawfly larvae clustered on stems and webbing caterpillars deeper in older growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 250mm, at $63.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311479337329,"sku":null,"price":63.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/f8RE0R7rTDGp5lLs-P2AS_tRkimE72.jpg?v=1787629792"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-citrinus","title":"Crimson Bottlebrush - Callistemon citrinus (Melaleuca citrina)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere Callistemon viminalis weeps, citrinus holds itself stiff and upright, and that one difference is why this species clips into a hedge and the weeping form never really does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrush a leaf and you get the lemon scent the name refers to. New growth breaks pink to bronze before hardening off to a dull green, and the crimson brushes carry through the main spring flush with scattered repeats later in the season. Honeyeaters and lorikeets find it within days of the first brushes opening, which is exactly what it is grown for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt takes heavy clay and periods of wet feet better than most natives, then sits out dry spells once the roots are down, matching the low to moderate watering listed above. The one job it genuinely needs is a prune straight after flowering, cutting back behind the spent brushes before the woody seed capsules build up along the stems. Skip that for two or three seasons and you get a leggy shrub flowering only on the tips. Watch for sawfly larvae clustered on soft new shoots in warm weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStock runs from 75mm tubes to 100L specimens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 75mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311479828849,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75mm","offer_id":64311479861617,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/iQy-gdNqchk_fhbgPeok0_Uex2qyu5.jpg?v=1787629792"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-viminalis-prolific","title":"Weeping Bottlebrush - Callistemon viminalis prolific (Melaleuca viminalis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eProlific is a weeping form of Callistemon viminalis selected for the sheer weight of red brushes it carries, hanging off pendulous branchlets in flushes through the warmer months with scattered flowers at other times. Bees and honeyeaters work it hard while it is out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Melaleuca viminalis in brackets on the label is not an error. Botanists moved Callistemon into Melaleuca and the trade now uses both names, so search under either when you are matching a landscape specification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo pests account for most of the damage on weeping bottlebrush. Sawfly larvae cluster in dark writhing masses on the stems and can strip a branch in days, and webbing caterpillars tie the shoot tips together and feed inside the mess. Both are simple to deal with by hand if you actually look over the plant monthly through spring and summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune straight after each flush, cutting behind the spent brushes into leafy wood. Left alone it goes leggy and thin at the base; trimmed from young it holds as a screen or a clipped hedge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 140mm up to 30L, priced from $16.95 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"30L","offer_id":64311489167729,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311489200497,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311489233265,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311489266033,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/H2-k29IUmcXFJ2s5pvp5e_ciekH0lo.jpg?v=1787629865"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-citrinus-white-anzac","title":"Crimson Bottlebrush - Callistemon citrinus White Anzac (Melaleuca citrina)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot every bottlebrush flowers red, and this one is a good deal wider than it is tall. White Anzac is the low, spreading, white-flowered selection of Callistemon citrinus, now more correctly Melaleuca citrina, and it works as a low informal hedge, a bank cover or a broad mass planting where the taller cultivars would be out of scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brushes are cream to white with fine filaments, mainly in spring with a lighter repeat in autumn. New growth flushes pink-bronze before hardening to stiff grey-green leaves that smell of lemon when crushed, which is where citrinus comes from. Honeyeaters work the flowers hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrune every year straight after flowering, cutting back below the spent brushes into the newer growth. Skip it two seasons running and you end up with an open woody frame carrying all its foliage on the outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatch for sawfly larvae clustering on the tips in warm weather and knock them off before they strip the new shoots. Full sun to part shade, low to moderate water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 140mm up to 330mm, priced from $16.95 to $149.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311491821937,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311491854705,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311491887473,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311491920241,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311491953009,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/v-akZLp58wnr2BwDOIq8A_XgzwGwRD.jpg?v=1787629995"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-eureka","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Eureka (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEureka was selected as a screening plant rather than a display shrub, and the narrow upright frame is what came of it. It holds a dense frame of roughly two to three metres and pushes its growth vertically, which is exactly what lets a row close into a solid green wall instead of an open thicket. Deep red brushes come heavily in spring with a lighter repeat later. Boundary screens, driveway windbreaks and informal native hedges are the standard jobs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpacing a Eureka screen\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe upright habit that makes it useful is also the thing people get wrong at planting. A spreading, arching bottlebrush will eventually throw a branch sideways and paper over a gap in a row. Eureka will not. It grows up rather than out, so a line set at two metres stays a line of separate columns with daylight between them for years, and no amount of trimming persuades it to fill sideways. Plant one to 1.2 metres apart if you want the row closed within two or three seasons, and treat 1.5 metres as the outside limit. Run a string line and keep the spacing even, because an uneven Eureka screen does not correct itself later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSoil, sun and the first three years\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt performs across coastal and inland gardens through the warm temperate and subtropical zones and takes a western Sydney or Brisbane summer without complaint. Full sun gives the denser habit; part shade is workable, though the frame opens up. Soil is rarely the limit. It accepts heavy clay, compacted builder fill and ground that stays wet for a few days after rain, conditions that quietly kill most exotic hedging shrubs. The years that decide the plant are the first three. Trim lightly every season from planting and it breaks low and stays furnished to the ankles. Leave it alone and everything runs to the leaders, the base goes bare, and you finish with woody legs under a green hat. Cutting into that bare wood seldom brings it back, so any recovery has to be staged over two or three seasons. You will also see it labelled Melaleuca in newer references, a change of botanical name and nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSizing it against the rest\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-kings-park-special\"\u003eKings Park Special\u003c\/a\u003e is the one to take where the thing you are screening is two storeys, since it lifts into a small tree with arching limbs that Eureka will never match for height. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-little-john\"\u003eLittle John\u003c\/a\u003e sits at the far end as a dwarf mound that will not screen anything at all. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-citrinus-endeavour\"\u003eEndeavour\u003c\/a\u003e is the closest comparison, and the split is simple: Endeavour holds a sheared face and reads as a clipped hedge, while Eureka is for a screen left to grow out with one trim a year. Larger stock for an established screen sits under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAfter flowering\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut the moment the brushes brown off, taking the shears back into the spent heads before the new shoots run out past them. Sawfly larvae are the pest to watch on young plants, black grubs that huddle in a mass on the branch tips and can strip a small bush in days; a jet from the hose knocks them off and the plant recovers. Feed after the annual cut with a slow release native fertiliser, water it in, and keep water up through the first summer while the roots spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 140mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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Wee Johnnie is a dwarf bottlebrush, now classified under Melaleuca, with deep crimson brushes over fine dark foliage and a naturally compact habit that suits a knee-high informal hedge, a letterbox planting or a row beside a path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt works in full sun through to part shade, copes with poor soil and dry spells once established, and tolerates wet feet better than most shrubs, which makes it useful in low-lying corners and rain gardens. Honeyeaters work the flowers hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatch for sawfly larvae clustered on stems in spring and scale on shaded interior growth. Myrtle rust attacks soft new shoots in humid coastal areas, so avoid pushing it with heavy nitrogen through summer. Supplied in 140mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/grevillea-and-bird-attracting-plants\"\u003eplanting for birds\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311502864753,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/fW3Z2sBTpy4oQPWLvXVpc_xIkIT81I.jpg?v=1787630136"},{"product_id":"bottlebrush-callistemon-dawson-river-weeper","title":"Bottlebrush - Callistemon Dawson River Weeper (Melaleuca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe weeping habit is the whole point of this bottlebrush. Branches arch and hang rather than standing up, so an established plant reads as a soft curtain of narrow leaves with red brushes swinging clear of the foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it room to fall. Squeezed into a narrow bed or sheared flat like a formal hedge the habit is lost and you have bought the wrong plant; as an informal screen row, spaced generously and tidied after flowering, it does the job well. You may also see it listed under Melaleuca as well as Callistemon, which follows a botanical reshuffle rather than any change in the plant itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoneyeaters and lorikeets find the flowers quickly. Watch for scale and the sooty mould that follows it, and for webbing caterpillar drawing leaf tips into a shabby clump; both are easier caught early than sprayed later. Stock runs from 5lt through to 90lt for immediate effect. Flat $99 delivery to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 5L up to 90L, priced from $29.95 to $479.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? 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