This document provides information about SlimTM Callistemon, a unique Callistemon shrub with a narrow growth habit suitable for tight planting areas. It describes its key features including reaching 3m tall and 1.3m wide, producing red flowers from September to November, and tolerating drought and frost. The document recommends using it for screens, hedges or features.
This document provides information about SlimTM Callistemon, a unique Callistemon shrub with a narrow growth habit suitable for tight planting areas. It describes its key features including reaching 3m tall and 1.3m wide, producing red flowers from September to November, and tolerating drought and frost. The document recommends using it for screens, hedges or features.
This document provides information about SlimTM Callistemon, a unique Callistemon shrub with a narrow growth habit suitable for tight planting areas. It describes its key features including reaching 3m tall and 1.3m wide, producing red flowers from September to November, and tolerating drought and frost. The document recommends using it for screens, hedges or features.
This document provides information about SlimTM Callistemon, a unique Callistemon shrub with a narrow growth habit suitable for tight planting areas. It describes its key features including reaching 3m tall and 1.3m wide, producing red flowers from September to November, and tolerating drought and frost. The document recommends using it for screens, hedges or features.
growth habit, great as a screen or hedge. • Slim™ Callistemon provides landscape professionals with a flowering bottlebrush for tight planting areas such as thin garden beds, along fence lines or walls. Description Narrow, slimline Callistemon • Will grow to approx 3m tall x 1.3m wide, but with Density 1–3 plants per m² pruning can be kept shorter to 1.5–3m high and as thin as 1–1.5 per linear metre 60cm in width. More regular pruning will result in a tidier, Height & Width 3m x 1.3m denser screen or hedge. Flowering Red flowers from Sep–Nov • If left to grow naturally, Slim™ Callistemon requires very Best Planting Time March–October minimal pruning to stay narrow. Uses Screen, hedge or feature for tight • A large number of flowering buds develop in spring and planting areas will open to classic red bottlebrush flowers throughout Position Full sun to part shade spring, sometimes summer and later again in autumn. Tolerates drought & frost • Slim™ Callistemon is unique in that the foliage will grow Soil Type Most soil types all the way to the ground, unless pruned away. Care Water as required for 8–13 weeks until • It will tolerate extended dry periods and medium to established; prune to shape 1–3 times a year heavy frosts. after flowering if desired Where it Works QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS, SA & WA *Based on Myrtle Rust resistance trials (see research at www.ozbreed.com.au).
