Callistemon paludosus (hybrid?) Conifers Like most camellias

Like most camellias

'Donation' carried that promise furthest

serotina room to form a broad colony in moist

and the same draw for Cloudless Sulphur and Sleepy Orange butterflies that feed and breed on the plant

Callistemon paludosus (hybrid?) Conifers Like most camelliasAn evergreen bottlebrush with arching to pendulous branches and dark green, lance shaped leaves, Callistemon paludosus carries terminal, pink bottlebrush spikes freely in midsummer, an unusual color in a genus mostly given to red. Relatively cold hardy for a bottlebrush, this is a graceful, easy shrub for a hot, sunny spot. The pink flowers raise a question: in the wild the straight Callistemon paludosus is described as yellow flowered, so this plant