Scarlet Bottle Brush Red flowers

Explore this garden shrub directory, covering colour, use, shape, size of shrubs. Use this shrub for screening purposes. Climbers and spreading shrubs are ideal plants that can be used for screening. Shrubs like this cover an area in a short time, and can be trained and pruned to suit the space.

Scarlet Bottle Brush

Callistemon Linearis

Red flowers

Summer flowering shrub

Use this shrub for screening purposes. Climbers and spreading shrubs are ideal plants that can be used for screening. Shrubs like this cover an area in a short time, and can be trained and pruned to suit the space.

Garden shrubs like this classed as an evergreen shrub. This means the shrub will keep its leaves (normally green) in winter season irrespective of the climate being hot, cold or mild. The most classic example of an evergreen is the fir tree

The shrub is considered hardy but this is a relative term and the degree of hardiness depends upon severity of climate. Seek specific advice if you live in a severe winter area

When fully grown this shrub will reach a height of about 6 feet and spread over an area of about 4 feet

Acidic soil or soil with pH less than 7.0 is preferred for this shrub to thrive best. Peat can be used to correct soils which are not acidic

Prune out all old wood or woody growth in the shrub. Pruning promotes growth from the point at where the cut is made generally

Grow the shrub for beautiful flowers