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Callistemon
'Hot Pink'
Compact Growth • Australian Native • Drought Tolerent
Callistemon 'Hot Pink'
Native Plant
Tall Garden Landscape
Sun Lover
Waterwise
Description
Uses
Care
Story
Info Note
Callistemon
Hot Pink
will give your sunny garden a flower colour in
Callistemons
not seen before.
Hot Pink
suits the smaller areas we have in our gardens of today as it is compact and not too tall. Honey eating birds, bees and other insects are attracted in large numbers during the flowering season.
Planted singly or in rows they will impress with their clean upright growth to 1.5m by 1m wide in most situations. The straight branches can be used to good effect in floral arrangements.
If planted into a large pot one would need to take real care that the soil never dried out.
Hot Pink
behaves as all other
Callistemons
of our knowledge. They are easy to grow with minimal requirements. All shrubs need to be watered in well at planting and kept moist for several months until they have rooted well into the garden soil.
Prune, if needed, to shape and size and is best done following the major flowering in spring.
Mulch with any mulching material to 60mm deep to conserve moisture and to keep the soil cooler around the surface feeder roots.
In most fertile soils little supplementary fertiliser will be needed but in
Hot Pink's
early life an occasional dressing of any well balanced fertiliser would be helpful.
Callistemon
Hot Pink
is a selected progeny from a cross of
Callistemon citrinus Splendens
(formerly Endeavour) and
Callistemon pallidus
. It was bred in South Africa by a native plant enthusiast who has a real interest in the flora from that country and also Australian native plants. From
Callistemon pallidus
s comes a dwarf habit and from
Callistemon Splendens
: the upright form. Plants had to be imported by Proven Winners and held for two years in government quarantine before clearing because of the relationship with our native flora.
Info Note
Hot pink flowers with hot pink bottlebrush like flowers on the terminal shoots and branches in spring.