*RETAIL - Callistemon 'Woodlander's Hardy Red' Purple Flowers silver-blue leaves

silver-blue leaves

at least decent drainage

Provide mulch or overhead protection where temperatures drop to 18F

Good hedging or container plant and rather drought tolerant in the ground

Even these small plants manage to produce a number of yellow-green flowers each spring followed by yellow fruit

*RETAIL - Callistemon 'Woodlander's Hardy Red' Purple Flowers silver-blue leavesAn especially hardy bottlebrush, to 5 6ft tall by 4ft wide. Bright crimson summer flowers are adored by hummingbirds. Foliage is green with reddish, purplish tinges in winter. Full sun for best flowering. Drought and lean soil tolerant. Easily evergreen at 5 F mid USDA zone 7. The parent plant of this clone survived a North Carolina winter that dropped to 9F, the bottom of zone 6 re sprouting from the roots. WOODLANDER'S HARDY BOTTLEBRUSH Myrtaceae