Transvaal Bottle Brush Red flowers

Explore this garden shrub directory, covering colour, use, shape, size of shrubs. Shrubs like this one are quite magnificent and make wonderful specimen plants that attract the eye and make a centerpiece for your garden

Transvaal Bottle Brush

Greyia Radlkoferi

Red flowers

Spring flowering shrub

Shrubs like this one are quite magnificent and make wonderful specimen plants that attract the eye and make a centerpiece for your garden

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

This shrub does not enjoy frost or freezing conditions. It may well survive the winter in protected areas of the garden However check with your local garden centre (center in US) first

When fully grown this shrub will reach a height of about 8 feet and spread over an area of about 5 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

If you want to prune this shrub confine your efforts to pinching the tips from the growth experienced

Grow the shrub for beautiful flowers