{"title":"Paperbark","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty one melaleucas, and fourteen of them carry Paperbark at the front of the title. The prefix is filing, not description. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-lateritia\"\u003eMelaleuca lateritia\u003c\/a\u003e has no papery bark anywhere, and Little Red and Little Penta are bottlebrush selections that came across when Callistemon was folded into Melaleuca, so one plant turns up under both names. Melaleuca salicina is the third, listed twice: here as a paperbark in 300mm and 45L, and as Willow Bottlebrush in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/bottlebrush\"\u003ebottlebrush range\u003c\/a\u003e across seven grades from 140mm. Open both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrees for ground that goes under\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-quinquenervia\"\u003eBroad Leaved Paperbark\u003c\/a\u003e is the standard call for swales, detention basins and the low corner that floods after storms, and a safer bet across more of the country than the northern Melaleuca viridiflora. The costs: a wide surface root system damages slabs, driveways and stormwater lines, the flowers set off hay fever in some people, and it seeds freely, so keep it well away from remnant wetland outside its home range. Hard frost checks it, so keep it coastal, warm temperate or subtropical. In a frost pocket use Melaleuca parvistaminea, which handles cold on a swale or dam margin, or Melaleuca salicina, frost hardy once settled, with pink and bronze spring growth, though scale and sooty mould follow stress. Melaleuca linariifolia, snow in summer, takes the same heavy wet ground at garden scale, and it is the one to buy if the peeling white trunk brought you here. The two Melaleuca leucadendra lines are the tropical end: fast, genuinely large, frost tender while young, roots that find drains, so parks, acreage and wide verges. Melaleuca preissiana and Melaleuca rhaphiophylla are the Western Australian swamp trees, at home under water all winter, rhaphiophylla even in salty groundwater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSun, sand and the wet feet exception\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-lanceolata-moonah\"\u003eMoonah\u003c\/a\u003e is the limestone coast survivor, dense on deep alkaline sand, low and twisted in wind, rounded in shelter. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-fulgens\"\u003eScarlet Honey Myrtle\u003c\/a\u003e is the exception to everything above. It wants sand, a mound or a slope, and air around the stems. In a wet airless summer on heavy soil it browns off inside a fortnight, root rot behind it. Showy honey myrtle self seeds beyond the garden in some southern districts, so check your council list. Melaleuca nodosa has sharp leaf tips, so keep it off paths, gates and play areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCompact forms, and cutting them on time\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-linariifolia-snowstorm\"\u003eSnowstorm\u003c\/a\u003e covers itself in white through summer at hedge height and never builds the papery trunk buyers keep expecting from the name. Melaleuca incana nana gives grey weeping foliage that breaks a run of dark green natives, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-nesophila-narrow-nessie\"\u003eNarrow Nessie\u003c\/a\u003e holds a screen line in a strip where the standard form sprawls. All want the same: shear the whole plant as soon as the brushes brown off, before the woody capsules set, every year. Leave a compact melaleuca to run for two seasons, then cut hard into bare old wood, and it is not reliably recovered from. Prune late and you remove the wood carrying the next flush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSiting, feeding and grades\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun for all; shade thins the crown and costs the density you paid for. Set compact forms 60 to 75 cm apart for a low informal hedge. On heavy clay, mound the bed and backfill with the soil you dug out, not potting mix, and read the \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/plants-for-clay-soil-australia\"\u003eclay planting guide\u003c\/a\u003e first. Feed lightly with a native blend in spring on poor sand; established trees rarely need it. Myrtle rust attacks soft new growth across this family in humid coastal Queensland and New South Wales, so check the tips after each flush and water at the base. Expect bark and flower litter all year, so keep the trees off pool surrounds and gutters. Thirteen of the twenty one lines start in a pot under two litres, and nine are listed in a single size only. Broad leaved paperbark is the one that reaches 300L.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-incana-nana","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca incana nana (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot every melaleuca wants to be a tree. Melaleuca incana is the grey honey myrtle from Western Australia, and the nana form is the compact one: fine, soft, grey-green needle foliage on weeping branchlets that build a low mounded shape instead of a trunk. Soft creamy yellow brush flowers appear over the outer growth in spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLandscapers use it for low informal screening, mass planting on banks and softening the edge of paving, where the silver-grey tone breaks up a long run of dark green natives. Give it full sun. It asks for low to moderate water once established and, like most of the genus, does not object to ground that stays damp through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat goes wrong is neglected pruning. Left alone the plant opens out and goes woody in the centre, and cutting back hard into bare wood is not reliably recovered from. A light trim after flowering each year keeps it dense and worth looking at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 130mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $23.95 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309186822513,"sku":null,"price":23.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311637705073,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/IFyuKIUGyFCzQFGXFumY_oA51RBS9.jpg?v=1787628478"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-lanceolata-moonah","title":"Moonah - Melaleuca lanceolata","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the limestone coasts of South Australia and western Victoria, Moonah is the tree still standing where nothing else holds on. Melaleuca lanceolata carries a dense, dark green, fine-leaved crown on a short gnarled trunk with rough dark bark, and it takes salt-laden wind, deep sand, alkaline soil and long dry spells without complaint. Small creamy white brush flowers appear over the warmer months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForm depends entirely on exposure. Out in the wind it stays low, twisted and sculptural. In shelter it lifts into a proper small tree with a rounded canopy. Both are useful: the first as a coastal windbreak or character planting, the second for shade and screening on a hard site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun and an open position. Shade thins the crown and costs you the density that makes the plant worth having in the first place. Sizes here run from 75mm tubes through to 400mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 75mm 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? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309186855281,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309186888049,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64309186920817,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309186953585,"sku":null,"price":52.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309186986353,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75mm","offer_id":64311644815729,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/xAB-vFp7mpQimt4pvS5FG_MFqUfKac.jpg?v=1787628478"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-leu-broad-leaf","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca leu. Broad Leaf (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive this one room before you plant it. The leu. on the tag is short for leucadendra, the weeping paperbark of northern Australia, and the broad leaf form carries wide, leathery, drooping leaves on branchlets that hang from a heavy, thick-barked trunk. The bark is the feature: layer on layer of cream and buff paper that peels away in sheets and looks good from the day the tree is knee high. Creamy bottlebrush flowers follow through the warmer months and are worked hard by bees and lorikeets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is quick, it gets genuinely large, and it is happiest with its feet wet, which makes it a sound choice for dam edges, park plantings, wide verges and low ground where other trees sulk. On a small block it will outgrow the space and the roots will find drains. It is frost tender while young, so treat it as a tropical to warm subtropical tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffered in 5lt and 90lt.\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? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"90L","offer_id":64309187182961,"sku":null,"price":479.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64309187215729,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/nHi41EApsbDTz5NSrhVH6_zf1tEJ32.jpg?v=1787628478"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-leu-fine-leaf","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca leu. Fine Leaf (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnlike the broad leaf form, the fine leaf selection of Melaleuca leucadendra carries narrow, willowy leaves that hang in a much finer curtain, so the tree reads softer and more pendulous even though it is the same species at a similar scale. If you are choosing between the two, that texture is the real decision, along with how much light you want filtered through the canopy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything else is shared. White papery bark peeling in sheets, cream bottlebrush flowers over the warm months, fast growth in full sun, and a genuine appetite for wet ground, so creek lines, dam surrounds, swales and seasonally flooded flats all suit it. It resents frost while young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlan for size. This is a shade tree for parks, acreage and wide verges rather than a courtyard specimen. Only the 5lt is listed at present, which is a sensible size to establish from given how quickly the tree moves once it is in the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64309187248497,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/LYOmH7wfbGR-Ar9Oeev3c_Vkbz2655.jpg?v=1787628479"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-linariifolia-snow-in-summer","title":"Snow In Summer - Melaleuca linariifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eGround that stays soggy for weeks after rain defeats most trees, which is why this one turns up so often in swales, detention basins, car park islands and roadside batters. It handles heavy clay and periodic inundation, then holds on through dry spells once the roots are down, so it suits sites that swing between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bark is the year round feature, white to cream and peeling away in soft papery sheets over a trunk that is often forked low or multi stemmed. Foliage is fine, needle like and evergreen, on a spreading crown that throws filtered rather than heavy shade. Through summer the canopy covers itself in white bottlebrush flowers, which is where the name comes from, and the bees find it within a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowth is moderate to fast in full sun on low to moderate water. Expect litter from spent flowers and shed bark, so keep it clear of pools and gutters. Plant Drop delivers to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA for a flat $99, with a $399 minimum order.\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 100L, priced from $18.95 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"25L","offer_id":64309187707249,"sku":null,"price":139.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64309187740017,"sku":null,"price":97.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309187805553,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64309187871089,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309187903857,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64309187936625,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309187969393,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309188002161,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20L","offer_id":64446149329265,"sku":null,"price":219.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/3bhIohNDgH6I6j9ITrEGB_F4dBWuIH.jpg?v=1787628478"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-little-nessie","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca Little Nessie (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle Nessie is sold as a compact melaleuca, bred down from the taller paperbarks to give the same fine foliage and soft cream brush flowers on a plant that stays low enough to use as a clipped hedge or a border mass rather than a tree. Cultivar detail varies between growers, so treat it as a dwarf form of the genus and judge the plant in front of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus behaviour is what you can rely on. Full sun, low to moderate water once established, and an unusual willingness to sit in ground that stays damp through winter, which is exactly where most compact hedging shrubs fail. That makes it useful along a swale, at a downpipe outfall, or in the low corner of a lawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep it clipped from the start. Compact melaleucas hold shape well under light, frequent trimming, but they thin out at the base and go leggy if you let them run for two years and then cut hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $17.95 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? 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Rounded mauve to pink flower heads, each one tipped with gold, sit all over the plant from late spring into summer, and they look far more like a pompom than the brush shape most people expect from a melaleuca.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeft alone it becomes a dense, wide, twiggy screen. Lifted by removing the lower branches it turns into a small character tree with corky fissured bark and a leaning trunk, which is how it is most often used in coastal streetscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo cautions. It is greedy for width, so allow more room than seems necessary at planting, and in some southern districts it self-seeds beyond the garden, which is worth checking locally before you mass plant it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 75mm up to 300mm, priced from $16.95 to $99.95 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? 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The first is density: fine needle-like foliage packed tightly enough to form a real barrier, which is why it turns up in habitat plantings and screens where small birds are wanted. The second is the flower, a globular lemon-yellow ball rather than a bottlebrush cylinder, carried over the outer growth in spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other common name, prickly-leaved paperbark, is a warning. The leaf tips are sharp enough to be unpleasant against bare arms, so keep it back from paths, gates and play areas and use it where a boundary planting is what you actually want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is an east coast heathland plant from sandy, low-nutrient country, so it copes with poor soil, coastal exposure and ground that waterlogs after heavy rain. Full sun keeps it tight and even. Tip prune after flowering to stop the base going bare, and avoid phosphorus-heavy fertiliser as you would with most natives.\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 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309188919665,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25L","offer_id":64309188952433,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309188985201,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309189017969,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/yRz0jXq-0mKwg68jb5gOU_DGpTDCU2.jpg?v=1787628543"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-parvistaminea","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca parvistaminea (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eConfusion with Melaleuca ericifolia follows this species around, and for good reason. The small-flowered honey myrtle has much the same fine leaves, the same soft papery bark and the same small creamy white flower clusters through spring. The practical difference is that swamp paperbark suckers hard from the roots and forms thickets, while parvistaminea is generally better behaved and holds as a defined tall shrub or small tree, which matters if you are planting a boundary rather than a revegetation block.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts natural ground is damp, seasonally wet country in south-eastern Australia, so it is a sound pick for the wet corner, a drainage swale or the margin of a dam. It also handles frost, which not every melaleuca does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it as a screen in full sun and expect moderate to fast growth once the roots are down. Available in 140mm and 200mm, both of which establish quickly on a site that stays moist.\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? 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It carries thick, soft, white to grey papery bark on a leaning multi-stemmed trunk, narrow needle-shaped leaves, and creamy white brush flowers through spring and summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts value in a planted landscape is tolerance of conditions that finish off other trees: prolonged inundation, heavy soil that stays saturated, and groundwater carrying salt. Revegetation crews use it in drainage basins, on salt-affected flats and along waterways for exactly that reason. In a garden it does the same job at the bottom of a slope where water sits after rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt will also grow quite happily in ordinary soil on normal watering, so do not read swamp tree as needing a bog. Give it full sun, room for a spreading multi-stemmed habit, and patience with a shape that is naturally irregular rather than upright. Listed in 5lt and 30lt.\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 30L, priced from $29.95 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 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"30L","offer_id":64309189738865,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64309189771633,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/UHlMCwwW58gEz7-2kBEom_DLlbIQH5.jpg?v=1787628543"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-salicina","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca salicina (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGardeners who bought this as Callistemon salignus were not wrong. The willow bottlebrush moved into Melaleuca when the two genera were merged, and much of the trade still uses the old name. Whatever it is called on the label, the tree is the same: white papery bark, narrow willow-like leaves, and a spring flush of new growth in bright pink or bronze that is arguably a better display than the cream bottlebrush flowers that follow it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is one of the more forgiving natives for suburban use. Frost hardy once established, tolerant of wet ground and periodic flooding, moderate in scale, and useful as a street tree, a driveway avenue or a screen along a fence line. Full sun gives the strongest new growth colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatch for scale and the sooty mould that follows it on stressed plants, and keep competing leaders off early if you want a single clean trunk. Available in 300mm and 45L advanced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 300mm up to 45L, priced from $88.95 to $269.00 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? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"45L","offer_id":64309189935473,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309189968241,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/A8f4VtVMR8M5y-k7_sAyL_hVaMnxF0.jpg?v=1787628543"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-quinquenervia","title":"Broad Leaved Paperbark - Melaleuca quinquenervia","description":"\u003cp\u003eBroad leaved paperbark is one of the few trees of its size that will stand in ground going under water after heavy rain. It grows naturally in coastal swamps and creek flats, tolerates periodic flooding and brackish groundwater, and holds an upright open crown above a trunk wrapped in thick white to buff bark that peels in soft papery sheets. Cream bottlebrush flowers come in flushes and pull in honeyeaters and flying foxes. It is a standard specification for swales, detention basins and wet low corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWet ground is the point, so the question is where you put it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe natural range runs from the New South Wales coast up through Queensland and into the tropics, and it grows through warm humid summers without complaint. Full sun, and low to moderate water once settled: on a wet site it needs none, and on ordinary garden soil it grows well provided the first years are not bone dry. Growth is moderate to fast, salt wind is handled, and it stands in the sort of seasonally waterlogged ground that would kill most natives outright, which is exactly why it gets specified. The mistake with this tree is scale and placement, not culture. It is a large tree with a wide, hungry surface root system, and planted a few metres from a slab, a driveway or a stormwater line in a suburban yard it causes damage nobody budgeted for. It also sets seed freely, so keep it well away from remnant wetland outside its home range. Flowering triggers hay fever in some people, worth remembering before you site one outside a bedroom window. Hard frost in cold inland districts will check it, so keep it to coastal, warm temperate and subtropical gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBig paperbark, tropical paperbark, or the compact one\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll three paperbarks here take damp ground, and they part company on size and climate. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-viridiflora\"\u003eMelaleuca viridiflora\u003c\/a\u003e carries much broader leathery leaves and is a northern plant, dependable in Queensland and warm coastal New South Wales but not in a cold inland garden, so quinquenervia is the safer choice across a wider spread of the country. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-linariifolia-snowstorm\"\u003eSnowstorm\u003c\/a\u003e is a compact shrub with none of the trunk or the bark, for gardens with no room for a tree. Take quinquenervia when you want the papery trunk, real canopy and a tree that copes with a site that floods. On a wet site with room, this is the default; on a wet corner the size of a courtyard, Snowstorm does related work at shrub scale. The \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paperbark\"\u003epaperbark range\u003c\/a\u003e holds the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFormative pruning and a tree that asks for nothing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune for form while the tree is young, selecting a leader and lifting the lower limbs over several seasons to get clearance for mowing or traffic. Melaleucas reshoot from older wood more willingly than most Australian natives, so a mature tree can be reduced or reshaped if a limb becomes a problem, though it is better not to need to. Fertiliser is rarely required, and unlike the banksias and grevilleas in this range there is no phosphorus restriction. Water through the first two summers on a dry site, then leave it alone. Expect to rake bark and leaf litter off paths, gutters and pool surrounds, since the tree sheds steadily rather than all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 9 sizes, from 200mm up to 300L, priced from $29.95 to $1749.00 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311393976689,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311394009457,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311394042225,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30L","offer_id":64311394074993,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311394107761,"sku":null,"price":1209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300L","offer_id":64311394140529,"sku":null,"price":1749.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64311394206065,"sku":null,"price":479.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311394238833,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311394271601,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-white-paperbark-melaleuca-melaleuca-quinquenervia_83d3ee46-829d-4514-bd57-57365db5b0fc.png?v=1785551722"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-preissiana","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca preissiana (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eModong is the stout paperbark of the Swan Coastal Plain, a Western Australian tree with a frame that leans and forks rather than running straight up. The trunk is the reason to plant it: thick, soft, creamy white bark laid down in papery sheets you can peel with a thumbnail. Fine grey green foliage carries creamy bottlebrush spikes through the warmer months, and honeyeaters work them hard. Its landscape job is shade and shelter on open ground that floods in winter and dries out hard by late summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGround that suits a modong\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tree grows naturally on sandy flats that sit under water through winter and bake by February, so the seasonal waterlogging that kills most trees is simply its home ground. It wants full sun, tolerates sand, clay and limey soils, handles coastal wind, and needs little water once the roots are down. It is slower in cooler southern gardens. Plant it as a windbreak line, a dam or drainage edge, or a shade tree on a verge or paddock corner, and space trees along a shelterbelt so crowns can spread instead of crowding into a narrow row. Young trees are worth staking for a first year on an exposed verge, and a watering ring helps while the roots spread out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe failure mode is space. This is a full sized tree with a broad, low forking crown and a strong root system, and it sheds bark and leaf litter steadily all year. Put it in a small back garden, over a pool, beside a driveway or on a narrow verge and you will be cutting it back off the house for the rest of its life. Give it open ground from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eModong beside the smaller honey myrtle\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Callistemon in the name is a red herring, since this is a true melaleuca, and the contrast with its shrubby relative is worth understanding before you buy. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-fulgens\"\u003eScarlet honey myrtle\u003c\/a\u003e is an upright shrub for a sunny, sharply drained bed, chosen for red brush flowers and birds at eye level. Modong is chosen for trunk, canopy and shelter, and it will stand in ground that drowns the honey myrtle. If your wet site is eastern and coastal rather than western, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/she-oak-casuarina-glauca\"\u003eswamp she-oak\u003c\/a\u003e does similar work with much finer foliage. More options sit in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paperbark\"\u003epaperbark range\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFormative pruning and feeding a paperbark\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo the shaping early. Decide in the first few years whether you want a single trunk or a multi stemmed frame, remove competing leaders, and lift the lower branches gradually to the clearance you need, then leave the tree alone. Old paperbarks resent heavy cuts into thick wood. Do any tidying after the main flush of flowering so the birds get the brushes first, and water new trees deeply and less often, which drives roots down instead of out. Feed with a native fertiliser low in phosphorus each spring for the first few seasons while it establishes, mulch out towards the drip line, and keep the mulch clear of the trunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 30L, at $199.00 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"30L","offer_id":64311415734641,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd15-185-stout-paperbark-melaleuca-preissiana_1cefd21c-da4c-44ed-92f1-e3ab6f22c9fa.png?v=1785551764"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-lateritia","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca lateritia (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite the Paperbark heading on this listing, Melaleuca lateritia is not a papery barked tree at all. It is an open, upright shrub from south west Western Australia, usually staying at large shrub scale, with narrow soft leaves and orange to brick red brushes carried along the stems through the warmer months. Robin Redbreast Bush is the name most growers know it by, and those flowers are the reason to plant it, because honeyeaters work them constantly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, low to moderate water once settled, and a moderate to fast rate of growth mean it fills a gap in a screen or windbreak quickly. It also handles seasonally wet ground better than most Western Australian shrubs, so it suits a swale, a drainage line or a low spot that stays damp after rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe usual failure is humidity. In warm coastal gardens on the eastern seaboard it can be short lived, so give it air movement and free draining soil, and tip prune straight after each flush to keep the base clothed rather than bare and twiggy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311474749809,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/n7FVG4wgLADrwau5QD2il_LP8fwBld.jpg?v=1787629722"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-fulgens","title":"Scarlet Honey Myrtle - Melaleuca fulgens","description":"\u003cp\u003eScarlet honey myrtle is an open, upright shrub from the drier inland country of Western Australia, carrying fine grey green leaves crowded along wiry stems. Through spring those stems load up with brush like flower spikes in scarlet, orange or pink, set along the wood rather than only at the tips, and honeyeaters find them within days of the first buds opening. It is planted as a bird attracting feature shrub, an informal screen, or a filler in a windbreak, in hot, sunny, sharply drained gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDrainage first, everything else second\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun all day, and soil that water disappears through. Sand, gravelly loam, a raised mound or a slope all suit it, and it wants moving air around the stems rather than a tucked away corner between two fences. Water through the first summer to establish it, then keep water low to moderate. It is well suited to Perth, Adelaide and dry inland gardens, and it can be grown in humid eastern gardens with care and a mound to sit on. It also does well in a large pot of coarse free draining mix, which is the sensible route in a summer rainfall garden where the beds stay damp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe failure mode is a wet, airless summer in heavy soil. Western Australian melaleucas from dry country die suddenly rather than gradually: the plant looks healthy, then browns off across a fortnight after warm summer rain, and root rot is almost always behind it. There is no cure once it starts. Plant high, do not enrich the hole with manure, keep mulch off the stem, and water in short infrequent runs over summer instead of long regular ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eScarlet honey myrtle against the swamp paperbark\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two melaleucas here sit at opposite ends of the genus. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-preissiana\"\u003eModong\u003c\/a\u003e is a full sized paperbark tree for open ground that floods in winter, grown for thick creamy bark and shade. Scarlet honey myrtle is a shrub, grown for flower colour and birds, and it needs the sharp drainage that the paperbark can take or leave. Choose the shrub for a garden bed, the tree for a paddock edge, verge or shelterbelt. Neither is a wet site plant in the eastern sense either, since the paperbark takes seasonal flooding and the honey myrtle will not. If the site is humid, coastal and heavy, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/photinia-robusta\"\u003ePhotinia robusta\u003c\/a\u003e is a more forgiving screen, though not a native one. More in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/natives\"\u003enative range\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTip pruning after the brushes finish\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune straight after flowering, and prune lightly. Take the spent brushes and a short length of the tip growth behind them off the whole plant, which keeps it leafy low down instead of bare and woody at the base with all the growth up top. Do this every year from the first season, because a plant left to go leggy will not reliably reshoot from old bare wood. Feed with a low phosphorus native fertiliser in early spring, apply it to damp soil and water it in, and keep the mulch coarse and clear of the stem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311483695473,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-apricot-honey-myrtle-melaleuca-fulgens-20260611_e32c8f4d-1393-4d71-95d4-a5c372ce9564.png?v=1785551992"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-hueglii","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca hueglii (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere sandy alkaline soil meets salt wind, this Western Australian honey myrtle is on home ground. It grows as an upright shrub to small tree, densely clothed in tiny crowded leaves, carrying cream to white bottlebrush spikes at the branch tips through the warmer months. The spent flowers harden into woody seed capsules that sit clustered along the older stems for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bracketed Callistemon on the label reflects old nursery naming and the obvious resemblance of the flower spike. It is a Melaleuca, and like most of the genus it handles ground that goes damp for periods as readily as it handles poor, quick draining soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical notes. It flowers on newer wood, so a light prune once the spikes brown off keeps it bushy and stops it opening out and going bare at the base with age. And it resents competition while young, so clear grass and weeds from the root zone for the first couple of seasons rather than planting straight into a paddock of kikuyu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311488610673,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/FoE7mVumF1ytVXnRmQa9A_6TuQlGSq.jpg?v=1787629864"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-viridiflora","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca viridiflora (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMelaleuca viridiflora is the paperbark of seasonally flooded flats across the tropical north, the tree left standing where other species drown. The leaves are the identifying feature, thick, broad and leathery, nothing like the fine foliage most people expect from a melaleuca. Bottlebrush spikes are usually greenish cream, though red flowered forms are grown as well, and the bark peels in soft white layers you can lift with a thumbnail. It is planted for screening, shelter belts and low ground that stays wet after rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA northern plant, and what happens when it heads south\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarmth is the governing factor. This species is dependable in Queensland and warm coastal New South Wales, and it becomes unreliable as you move into cold inland districts, where frost cuts back young growth and the plant never gains momentum. That is the failure to plan around: not drainage, not feeding, but climate, so match it to a warm humid or subtropical garden and choose something else where winters are cold. Given the right climate it asks for very little. Full sun, moderate to fast growth, and low water once established, with real tolerance of ground that holds water after storms and of the wet and dry swing of a northern season. Poor sandy soils are fine, and salt wind is handled. Lorikeets and honeyeaters work the flower spikes. Bark and leaf litter builds under the canopy through the year, so keep it away from pool surrounds and gutters. The old habit of listing it as a Callistemon still shows up on stock lists, but the bark places it with the paperbarks. Growth is moderate to fast in warmth, with most of the season made in the build up and the wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow it differs from the other paperbarks stocked here\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-quinquenervia\"\u003eMelaleuca quinquenervia\u003c\/a\u003e is the more widely adapted of the two trees, growing well down the eastern seaboard into cooler coastal gardens, with narrower leaves and whiter, thicker bark, so south of the subtropics that is the one to specify. Viridiflora earns its place in the north, where the broad leathery foliage gives a coarser, more tropical texture that reads differently against palms and gingers. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-linariifolia-snowstorm\"\u003eSnowstorm\u003c\/a\u003e is not a tree at all but a compact shrub for low hedging, useful when the wet corner is a small one. Texture separates the two trees as well: fine leaves and white bark read as an open, airy canopy, while this broad leathery foliage reads solid and shades more heavily, so in a screen it blocks a view sooner at the same height. Compare all three in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paperbark\"\u003epaperbark collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShaping it, and feeding on poor sand\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune after a flowering flush, which is when the plant recovers quickly and when you are not removing developing buds. It takes shaping readily and can be run as a multi stemmed screen or lifted to a single trunk, and unlike the grevilleas and banksias here it reshoots from older wood without much drama. On poor sandy ground a general slow release fertiliser in spring lifts the growth rate noticeably, and there is no phosphorus restriction to worry about. Water through establishment, then only in extended dry spells. Keep grass and weeds off the base for the first two years so a young plant is not competing for water in the dry season.\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 $29.95 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311492411761,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311492444529,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311492477297,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-red-paperbark-melaleuca-viridiflora-20260609_ddd5d5c6-a3d4-41fa-b07b-f91156bb6e8b.png?v=1785552044"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-linariifolia-snowstorm","title":"Snow In Summer - Melaleuca linariifolia Snowstorm","description":"\u003cp\u003eSnowstorm is a compact selection of Melaleuca linariifolia that keeps the needle fine foliage and the dense white summer flowering the species is named for, on a bushy plant that stays low instead of building a trunk. In flower the whole plant goes over white, which is where the name snow in summer comes from, and bees work it heavily while it lasts. It is used as a low informal hedge, as mass planting under windows, and on verges where a tree would eventually reach the wires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEasy ground, wet or dry, and the surprise on the truck\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, moderate to fast growth, and a genuinely wide tolerance of soil: it takes dry spells once established, and it also takes ground that stays damp for a while after rain, which very few compact hedging plants will do. That combination makes it a sensible answer for a verge, a swale edge or the low corner of a garden where other shrubs have failed. Space plants about 60 to 75 cm apart for a low informal hedge. Frost is handled in most temperate gardens and it takes wind well, though for front row salt spray straight off the water a westringia is the safer call. The regular disappointment with this one has nothing to do with how it grows. Buyers order it expecting the paperbark tree and its peeling white trunk, and what comes off the truck is a shrub whose slim stems stay buried in foliage. Snowstorm will not develop that trunk at any age. If the bark is what you are after, plant the tree form and give it the room a tree needs. If you want the flowers and the fine foliage at hedge height, this is the one to order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCompact selection against the paperbark trees\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other two paperbarks in this range are trees. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-quinquenervia\"\u003eBroad leaved paperbark\u003c\/a\u003e is the large specimen for swales, basins and wet sites, carrying the thick white papery trunk people plant paperbarks for. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-viridiflora\"\u003eMelaleuca viridiflora\u003c\/a\u003e is a northern tree with broad leathery leaves for warm humid gardens. Snowstorm is the one to take when the space is a garden bed rather than a paddock or a park: hedging under window height, mass planting on a verge, or a low screen where you want white summer flower and no clearance argument in ten years. Anyone who has planted a paperbark tree in a courtyard and taken it out again eight years later understands why the compact form exists. It also sits in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003escreening range\u003c\/a\u003e for low level work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCutting it straight after the flowers finish\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune as soon as flowering ends and before the woody seed capsules set along the stems, taking an all over trim rather than a hard cut. Done every year that keeps the plant tight to the base; skipped for several seasons it goes woody and opens in the middle, and while melaleucas reshoot from old wood better than most natives, recovery is slow and uneven. Pruning late removes the growth that would have carried the next summer flush, so timing matters more than technique. A general slow release fertiliser in spring is plenty, with no phosphorus restriction. Shear across the whole plant rather than chasing individual stems; the fine foliage hides a cut line quickly.\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 250mm, priced from $16.95 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 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311492804977,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311492837745,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311492870513,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd17-340-snowstorm-melaleuca-melaleuca-linariifolia_e181cf3f-6186-45d7-a8ff-3e24e97eec96.png?v=1785552049"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-little-penta-pbr","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca Little Penta PBR (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere a standard bottlebrush wants to become a small tree, Little Penta stays a low, dense, rounded shrub, which is what makes it useful along a path edge or in front of taller natives. The foliage is fine and narrow with a pinkish flush on new growth, and the flowers are the familiar red brushes, carried mainly through spring with a lighter repeat when the season suits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name change trips people up. Bottlebrushes were shifted from \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e into \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca\u003c\/em\u003e, so the same plant turns up under both names on plans and invoices. Culturally nothing changes: full sun, tolerance of damp ground that would kill a grevillea, and low to moderate water once the roots are down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it a light shear straight after the main flush rather than cutting back into bare old wood, which reshoots slowly. Skipping that annual trim is the usual reason a dwarf bottlebrush goes woody and thin at the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 130mm, 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311500505457,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/3yU6XjUpvZ53RzqtXRhzj_fZIEaInz.jpg?v=1787630134"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-nesophila-narrow-nessie","title":"Showy Honey Myrtle - Melaleuca nesophila Narrow Nessie","description":"\u003cp\u003eStandard \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca nesophila\u003c\/em\u003e sprawls into a broad, gnarled, wide-headed shrub, which is fine on a coastal batter and useless against a boundary fence two metres from the house. Narrow Nessie is the selection made for exactly that problem: the same plant on a more upright, narrower frame that holds a screen line without constant cutting back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers do the selling, mauve to pink pompoms fading to cream as they age, carried through the warmer months and covered in bees. Bark on older stems is soft and papery, and the small rounded leaves are grey-green and leathery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing from the south coast of Western Australia, it handles salt wind, sandy ground and dry spells, and it also tolerates soil that stays damp for periods, which is an unusual combination to get in one shrub. Trim lightly each year after flowering to hold the narrow habit, because even a selected form widens if it is left alone. We deliver 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 supplied in one size, 250mm, at $59.95 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311501881713,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/4iUsCWy_v5bv8j5vavvNa_VuVa1Ll9.jpg?v=1787630136"},{"product_id":"paperbark-melaleuca-little-red-pbr","title":"Paperbark - Melaleuca Little Red PBR (Callistemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone who has planted a full-sized bottlebrush against a fence knows how fast it outgrows the spot. Little Red is a compact selection from the bottlebrush group, now sitting in Melaleuca after the reshuffle of Callistemon, and it keeps the familiar red cylindrical brushes on a much smaller, denser evergreen frame with fine leaves and reddish new growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun brings the heaviest flowering, and the plant is genuinely tolerant of wet ground, which is unusual in a shrub this size. That makes it useful along swale edges, in poorly drained lawn corners and in rain garden planting, as well as in low informal hedges and mixed native borders. Water needs sit low to moderate once established, and growth is moderate to fast. Prune straight after each flush, cutting just below the spent brushes, which keeps it tight and brings on the next round; leave it too long and you remove the developing buds. Honeyeaters are on it constantly. We deliver 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 supplied in one size, 170mm, at $23.95 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\/coastal-planting-salt-and-wind\"\u003ecoastal planting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64311513547121,"sku":null,"price":23.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/GzkN4KvXiHaGDhALYWEgz_lfNx2L3G.jpg?v=1787630243"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/collections\/pd17-340-snowstorm-melaleuca-melaleuca-linariifolia_e181cf3f-6186-45d7-a8ff-3e24e97eec96.png?v=1787348931","url":"https:\/\/plantdrop.com.au\/collections\/paperbark.oembed","provider":"Plant Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}