Callistemon Betka Beauty™

A compact single- or multi-stemmed shrub (1.2m-1.8m high x 1.2-1.5m wide) with papery bark. Fresh light green foliage and bright red new stems display the large, dense, brilliant red bird-attracting brushes which flourish in spring and summer.  It thrives in moist to wet clay loams or moist sandy soils, neutral to acid pH, in climates ranging from cool temperate to sub tropical, and semi arid (with adequate water); it loves full sun, tolerates light shade, and is frost hardy.  It may also be planted in coastal gardens as a second line shrub.

It is spectacular as a specimen, makes a fine hedge if well clipped, and is suitable for streetscape planting or in open parkland.  Regular pruning of spent flowers will encourage ever more and denser flowering, as well as promotion of compact growth.

Uses: plant as a specimen or in groups, around pools or for screening; in streetscapes and open parkland.

Maintenance: remove spent flowers regularly, prune foliage to shape after flowering. Feed with controlled release low phosphorus fertilizer in early spring or late summer.

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