🌺🪷🌼🌼🌸🌹Spring has Sprung in the Southern Hemisphere!🌺🪷🌷🌻🌼🌸...
🌺🪷🌼🌼🌸🌹Spring has Sprung in the Southern Hemisphere!🌺🪷🌷🌻🌼🌸🪻 #bloomingmarvellous #aussienatives
So I recently talked about how, in Australia, spring commences on 1 September and what a difference a day can make!
As well as having the hot August on record in Perth, it has also been pouring rain. So a slightly warmer temperature, add a little sunshine and water and voila ! Blooms !!
I have talked about these plants before, known as a bottlebrush and if you look at the flowers close up, you can see why! This one’s a red bottlebrush and it’s in full bloom. All of a sudden a mass of red in what looked like a boring shrub.
So while my friends in the north (US and UK etc) move towards Fall/Autumn and the dropping of leaves etc 🍂 🍁 🍃 I look forward toward to adding some spring brightness and color !
And I do recall some peoplee saying they saw these bottlebrushes in certsin parts of America (California? Florida?) so I would be interested where else. It’s very much an Australian native. They are part of the Callistemon family.
They have been grown in Europe since a specimen of Callistemon citrinus was introduced to Kew Gardens in London by Joseph Banks in 1789, which is the lovely named Lemon Scented Bottlebush! I am wondering if this is one of them?
Here’s some info if you want to know more:
https://www.anbg.gov.au/callistemon/#:~:text=Bottlebrushes%20are%20members%20of%20the,which%20genus%20some%20species%20belong.
https://youtu.be/eePOyzyrCBE
https://youtu.be/YTJ5jk4TRRM?si=xV3QcRBgSnrr-jCX
#HappyPlants
#PlantsMakePeopleHappy
#PlantAddict
#NewGrowth #theamigos
#Seymour #bottlebrush
#AustralianNatives #GregGang
#PlantCorner
#PLANTMAFIA
So I recently talked about how, in Australia, spring commences on 1 September and what a difference a day can make!
As well as having the hot August on record in Perth, it has also been pouring rain. So a slightly warmer temperature, add a little sunshine and water and voila ! Blooms !!
I have talked about these plants before, known as a bottlebrush and if you look at the flowers close up, you can see why! This one’s a red bottlebrush and it’s in full bloom. All of a sudden a mass of red in what looked like a boring shrub.
So while my friends in the north (US and UK etc) move towards Fall/Autumn and the dropping of leaves etc 🍂 🍁 🍃 I look forward toward to adding some spring brightness and color !
And I do recall some peoplee saying they saw these bottlebrushes in certsin parts of America (California? Florida?) so I would be interested where else. It’s very much an Australian native. They are part of the Callistemon family.
They have been grown in Europe since a specimen of Callistemon citrinus was introduced to Kew Gardens in London by Joseph Banks in 1789, which is the lovely named Lemon Scented Bottlebush! I am wondering if this is one of them?
Here’s some info if you want to know more:
https://www.anbg.gov.au/callistemon/#:~:text=Bottlebrushes%20are%20members%20of%20the,which%20genus%20some%20species%20belong.
https://youtu.be/eePOyzyrCBE
https://youtu.be/YTJ5jk4TRRM?si=xV3QcRBgSnrr-jCX
#HappyPlants
#PlantsMakePeopleHappy
#PlantAddict
#NewGrowth #theamigos
#Seymour #bottlebrush
#AustralianNatives #GregGang
#PlantCorner
#PLANTMAFIA
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@Seymour #Seymour And some close relatives or other #aussienatives aren’t they #bloomingmarvellous ?
@Seymour we've got bottlebrushes in the tropics too, although they're planted by the local authorities 😜. The ones here is C.viminalis.
We've got a relative of the Bottlebrush here, a native this time, we call it Gelam, or Paper Bark tree. This one has the white ones! Supposedly able to withstand drought, floods and fire, but in Singapore we can't test that out 🫤.
We've got a relative of the Bottlebrush here, a native this time, we call it Gelam, or Paper Bark tree. This one has the white ones! Supposedly able to withstand drought, floods and fire, but in Singapore we can't test that out 🫤.
@Araceae That’s really interesting, so I had a look at what Dr Wiki says about them:
Melaleuca viminalis, commonly known as weeping bottlebrush or creek bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon viminalis). It is a multi-trunked, large shrub or tree with hard bark, often pendulous foliage and large numbers of bright red bottlebrush flowers in spring and summer. It is possibly the most commonly cultivated melaleuca in gardens and its cultivars are often grown in many countries.
A widely grown garden plant and street tree, usually known as Callistemon viminalis, Melaleuca viminalis is a hardy species in most soils when grown in full sun. It is useful as a screening plant and is suitable for planting as a street tree. It needs regular watering but can survive drought as a mature plant although it is not frost hardy and will succumb to salt spray.
We have paper bark trees here and they certainly live up to their name.
Melaleuca quinquenervia:
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/paperbark-tree
Melaleuca viminalis, commonly known as weeping bottlebrush or creek bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon viminalis). It is a multi-trunked, large shrub or tree with hard bark, often pendulous foliage and large numbers of bright red bottlebrush flowers in spring and summer. It is possibly the most commonly cultivated melaleuca in gardens and its cultivars are often grown in many countries.
A widely grown garden plant and street tree, usually known as Callistemon viminalis, Melaleuca viminalis is a hardy species in most soils when grown in full sun. It is useful as a screening plant and is suitable for planting as a street tree. It needs regular watering but can survive drought as a mature plant although it is not frost hardy and will succumb to salt spray.
We have paper bark trees here and they certainly live up to their name.
Melaleuca quinquenervia:
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/paperbark-tree
@Seymour Melaleuca quinquenervia is a source of popular essential oils too!
We have a plant with similar catechins here in the U.S. but it's not shrubbery. It's smaller....a houseplant called Chenille. Acalyphia pendula. In more temperate climates (Florida and Central to Southern California) it can be grown into a larger plant and become woody like a shrub.
We have a plant with similar catechins here in the U.S. but it's not shrubbery. It's smaller....a houseplant called Chenille. Acalyphia pendula. In more temperate climates (Florida and Central to Southern California) it can be grown into a larger plant and become woody like a shrub.
@UltraKoreanfir That’s a cool looking plant, Melisse. I wonder if Maria from “Growing Joy with Plants” podcast (sing it baby!) will get one now she has moved to Florida !
You may have picked up that I’m a fan of WeTheWild Protect Spray and it’s partly that it has (here in Australia at least) Lemon Myrtle essential oils and I love the smell.
https://lemonmyrtlefragrances.com.au/pages/about-lemon-myrtle
You may have picked up that I’m a fan of WeTheWild Protect Spray and it’s partly that it has (here in Australia at least) Lemon Myrtle essential oils and I love the smell.
https://lemonmyrtlefragrances.com.au/pages/about-lemon-myrtle