Woodlanders Cold Hardy Red Bottlebrush – Callistemon – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-10b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Evergreen Flowering Shrub 

Flower Color:  Bright Red

Flower Size:  3-4″ in length

Flowering Period:  Spring, Summer

Flower Type:  Cylindrical, Bottlebrush-like

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Medium to Dark Blue-Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  NA

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Butterflies, Birds

Resistances:  Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect

Growing 4 to 5 feet tall and equally as wide, Woodlanders Cold Hardy Bottlebrush is ideal for use has multiple use as a specimen, in groupings, or as a natural hedge. Excellent spilling out from behind other shorter plants or over a wall. A fine addition to tropical gardens, red theme gardens, butterfly gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs). In the warmer USDA Hardiness Zones 8b-10b Woodlanders Cold Hardy Bottlebrush is excellent for use in containers that can be left outside during winter.

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Bottlebrush is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring. 

For those of you in USDA Zones 7a or 7b we advise providing young plants with a little extra protection during the first winter or two if and when the temperature drops below 20 degrees. Add mulch around the base or cover the entire plant with a tarp or blanket for insulation. Planting close to the home on the east or south side will offer some protection from winters cold northern winds.