BOTTLE BRUSH SEEDS CRIMSON - 100 BOTTLE BRUSH SEEDS IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Crimson Bottlebrush Native to Australia, the Crimson Bottle brush is an evergreen shrub or small tree. They make excellent and unique garden plants. Their bright showy red flower-spikes appear in summer and autumn and are made up of a number of individual flowers. The pollen of the flower forms on the tip of a long colored stalk called a filament. It is these filaments which give the flower spike its color and distinctive 'bottlebrush' shape. The flowers can be spectacular and are irresistible to nectar-feeding birds and insects. Most often grown as a shrub, Bottlebrush can be also be trained as a tree to  4m. It makes a nice screen or tall hedge. This fast growing variety is frost tolerant to a temperature of 6 degrees C and is best grown outside. In older climates they make for novelty potted plants that can easily be overwintered inside or in a greenhouse. Germination from seed is easy, requiring no special treatment.   This tree attracts a lot of birds into your garden   View our other items by clicking on the shield: