Bottlebrush Plant Callistemon citrinus
Delicious scent - loved by bees and butterflies
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Scented / Fragrant
Perfect In Pots
Plant In Sunshine
Protect From Frost
Wildlife Friendly
RHS Perfect Pollinators
- FLUFFY FLOWER HEADS - This unique exotic 'bottlebrush plant' has the most eye-catching fluffy red cylindrical flower heads during late spring and summer - hence the name!
- LEMON FRAGRANCE - Covered in tiny green leaves that produce a delicious lemony citrus scent if brushed. An evergreen plant that originates from Australia.
- SPECIMEN PLANT - A versatile plant perfect as a feature in the lawn, against a wall or fence, or stunning planted in large pots as a tropical feature on the patio. Most suited to your sunniest spot.
- LOW MAINTENANCE - Callistemon will grow to about 1m tall, is extremely drought tolerant making it a fantastic low maintenance plant for any size garden. A half-hardy shrub, give winter protection in colder, windier spots.
- DETAILS - Supplied as an established 3 year old plant in a 2.5L pot, ready to plant out or re-pot.
2.5L Pot - Item: 510046
RRP £24.99
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Product Description
Who could resist touching the fluffy red cylindrical flower heads that drip from the branches of this evergreen shrub during late spring and summer? Not many. But this native of Australia has more going for it than just its 'stroke me' qualities.
The tiny leaves that cover its arching branches release a delicious lemony scent when brushed, and its arching branches provide all year round interest. Wherever you plant it its perfect as specimen in the lawn, grown against a wall or fence, or planted in large pots. A real sun lover, give it the brightest spot possible.
You need to water a bottlebrush for its first season, but when established plants are extremely drought tolerant. Protect it in harder winters by covering with fleece or grow in pots so it can be moved indoors (a shed, front porch, garage or conservatory would be ideal).
What Is Supplied
Item 510046 supplied as:
Supplied as a 3 year old plant in a 2.5L pot, ready to plant out.
Plant Information
Top Tips
- Callistemon will flower best when grown in full sun in moist but well drained soil in a sheltered position away from cold winds.
- Outdoors, Callistemon (Bottlebrush) look great in mixed borders especially if combined with other drought tolerant plants such as salvias and lavenders.
Care Guide
Planting Advice for Callistemon Bottlebrush
- Generally unfussy as to soil, poor soil benefits from the addition of plenty of organic matter.
- Once established plants don't need special attention and are generally problem-free.
- Pot-grown trees can be planted at any time of the year as long as the soil is not waterlogged or frozen.
- Dig a square planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill once the shrub is in place.
- Before planting soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain.
- Remove your Callistemon from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
- Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
- Place your tree in the hole at the same level at the pot, refill, firm, and water well.
- Mulch around the base of the plant.
- Plants can also be grown in a pot using a good quality soil-based compost.
Aftercare Advice for your Bottlebrush
- Although drought-tolerant, Callistemon requires regular watering.
- Feed with a general-purpose liquid feed in the growing season and top dress in the spring.
- Callistemon can get out of hand under glass so restrictive pruning may be necessary to keep their shape.
- A half-hardy shrub, give winter protection in colder, windier spots. A fleece cover and mulch will see them safely through the winter. Potted plants can be moved to a cool conservatory or greenhouse.
Pruning Advice for Callistemon
- Lightly prune after flowering to keep them under control, cutting just behind the spent bloom.
- Callistemons in general don't like hard-pruning, so just remove spent flowerheads immediately after flowering, or trim new growth to maintain shape.
Planting / Flowering Calendar
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Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
150cm
120cm
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Very healthy plant so delighted. Well packaged and driver very helpfulProduct:
Lovely healthy plant perfect for we?re planted
Review Submitted: 17/05/2023 - 11:48:51
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plants arrived in good condition.Product:
good value for the two plants
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The plants were in excellent condition and quick service
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Good healthy plants but took a long time to come.Product:
Very nice plant, good and strong.
Review Submitted: 26/08/2022 - 14:27:21
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Plants arrived well packed and in good conditionProduct:
Healthy plant, very good condition
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Excellent delivery service , and updates on purchase. Good products. I have made many orders .Product:
Well established and excellent condition.
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Yes definitely plants healthyProduct:
Arrived promptly and in good condition
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Plant received in excellent condition and very quickly from orderingProduct:
Excellent plant and good quality
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Very good service no complaints
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My plant arrived on time , well packaged, healthy looking .I'm really pleased . I have had plants before from garden bargains.Product:
Excellent plants excellent service
Review Submitted: 14/05/2022 - 20:55:54
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Great quality, really healthy and big really happy with order.Product:
Healthy bush big strong well happy highly recommended
Review Submitted: 17/11/2021 - 11:44:17
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Bought plants two week ago, they arrived looking really healthy and look very happy plants,Well worth a buy. Arrived safely and very well packaged. Looks just better more in the photo. Very pleased with it. Many ThanksProduct:
Great plant. Well packaged. Arrived in good condition. Very pleased with it. Thank you.
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Bottle brush planf arrived in good conditionProduct:
Plant could be bigger stems
Review Submitted: 06/10/2021 - 11:10:07
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The delivery speed was fine, but the description of the shrub totally different from the partially broken twig received.
Review Submitted: 17/09/2021 - 08:35:01
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Would use again very prompt delivery, good sized shrubs for price.Product:
As before good service by company
Review Submitted: 14/09/2021 - 14:53:58
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The worst online gardening eschewing ever. Chris Bonnett the owner is not interested in customer service and its totally impossible to contact ibis you do it slow mail and threaten court action.
Review Submitted: 14/09/2021 - 16:40:02
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Very pleased with the service.my order was delivered on time.will order more items
Review Submitted: 11/03/2020 - 13:55:00
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Quick service, plants all delivered safelyProduct:
Looks great
Review Submitted: 25/02/2020 - 22:27:42
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prompt delivery and good, healthy looking plant, so far so godProduct:
good and quick service
Review Submitted: 24/01/2020 - 17:30:44
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Excellent services and a really efficient serviceProduct:
Looks good, healthy and packs aged well.
Review Submitted: 22/08/2019 - 15:24:43
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A rubbish plant that was broken and had diseased leaves on, not what they said you would receive don?t believe what they say you will receive on the Garden programProduct:
Diseased broken plant received if I could have gone - on the star rating I would have
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Service rating : We were happy to replace the damaged plant - in the rare event that things go wrong, we do try and put them right as quickly as possible. I hope you'll now enjoy the fresh bottle brush.
Emma
Product : We were happy to replace the damaged plant - in the rare event that things go wrong, we do try and put them right as quickly as possible. I hope you'll now enjoy the fresh bottle brush.
Emma
Emma
Product : We were happy to replace the damaged plant - in the rare event that things go wrong, we do try and put them right as quickly as possible. I hope you'll now enjoy the fresh bottle brush.
Emma
Review Submitted: 14/08/2019 - 11:45:47
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Lovely plants well pleased and prompt serviceProduct:
Great plant, look forward to seeing it bloom
Review Submitted: 13/08/2019 - 13:50:43
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Prompt service and strong , healthy plantProduct:
The bottlebrush plant is a good size and already showing some growth so doesn't look too wimpy in its large pot..
Review Submitted: 29/07/2019 - 11:50:14
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Prompt delivery plant very healthy just waiting for flowers to appear. Thankyou.
Review Submitted: 25/06/2019 - 15:41:19
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Lovely healthy looking plant at a fantastic price.Product:
Great little guy. Looks happy in the garden. Can't wait for flowering.
Review Submitted: 22/06/2019 - 06:40:56
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lovely plant deliveredProduct:
very good condition of the plant very satisfied
Review Submitted: 20/06/2019 - 11:14:39
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The plants arrived on time still waiting for the compost
Review Submitted: 10/06/2019 - 21:00:07
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The service I have had from Garden Bargains, over the last few months, has been really good. Deliveries have been quick and efficient, and any questions I have had to ask, we're answered promptly.Product:
Very happy with my purchase.
Review Submitted: 31/05/2019 - 15:02:47
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I bought the plant as a present for my friend, it was delivered on the day I asked for on her birthday, she was thrilled with it, a nice healthy plant, at a very good price.
Review Submitted: 13/05/2019 - 15:27:37
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Quick delivery seams to be doing well hope it carries onProduct:
Well packed and healthy plant
Review Submitted: 09/05/2019 - 11:59:58
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I purchased a plant that died on me. They replaced it promptly with no hassle. Excellent customer serviceProduct:
excellent customer service
Review Submitted: 06/05/2019 - 14:36:54
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OK. Better than their normal slow deliveryProduct:
Lot of the "brush hairs" shaken loose. At least they should grow next year.
Review Submitted: 01/05/2019 - 17:58:10
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Delivery great. Kept informed. Ordering easy,Product:
Great value for money. Lovely plant. Arrived in tip top condition.
Review Submitted: 22/04/2019 - 15:16:27
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Always great service from garden bargains! The plants are always covered in new growth buds or both! Never dried out either. Only negative thing is some plants are terribly pot bound and needed to be planted in bigger pots before delivery.
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Great size and covered in new growth. Cant wait to get it planted!
Review Submitted: 19/04/2019 - 11:55:42
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lovely plant . arrived very quickly in excellent condition .
Review Submitted: 17/04/2019 - 11:35:02
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Plants in excellent condition, very well packaged and with prompt delivery.Product:
Plants in excellent condition.
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I purchased a bottlebrush plant. The plant arrived quickly and well packaged. It has strong roots and branches is well proportioned and already has several Budds. I am ver y pleased with it and the service from Garden Bargains.Product:
Strong shrub with good roots and branches. Arrived on time with good strong packaging which is recycled.
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Plants received have been in good healthy condition--Product:
Good heathy condition lush
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All the plants look to be healthy and were delivered undamaged. The ordering process was easy and I will be ordering some more plants in the future and would highly recommend this company.
Review Submitted: 27/02/2019 - 14:45:09
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The plants were packaged extremely well and looked very healthy.Product:
Nice and big and healthy looking.
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Just excellent, no more to be said.
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First class serviceProduct:
Arrived in perfectly good order, tree itself looks absolutely fine, thank you.
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Excellent service plants arrived in good timeProduct:
Large plant ..Goid condition.. can't wait to see it in flower next year...
Review Submitted: 14/08/2018 - 07:26:20
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Great service and great communication. Plants are very good value for moneyProduct:
Slightly disappointed with size and quality
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great service, had a poblem with a previous order but it was fixed immediately,magicProduct:
so far so good
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all plants doing great
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great service cant fault at allProduct:
arrived in great condition.. looking forward to the plant growing and having great flowers..
Review Submitted: 16/07/2018 - 12:13:07
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Positive response to orders plants of general high qualityProduct:
waiting flowering but plants look really healthy at this time as repotted watered regularly in this hot summer cant wait for results
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Took too long to arrive
Review Submitted: 25/06/2018 - 06:30:06
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So pleased plants arrived really well packedProduct:
Looks a lovely plant really pleased
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Good service and plants are amazing
Review Submitted: 07/06/2018 - 18:40:00
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Excellent service would definitely recommend using this companyProduct:
After using a different online gardening center and being very disappointed, I was pleasantly surprised to receive my plant which is very healthy and a really good size. It was well packaged. Would definitely purchase from this garden centre and highly recommend
Review Submitted: 07/06/2018 - 10:11:34
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Nice easy transaction and my delivery came ahead of their estimated date and the plant was in good condition upon arrival.Product:
The bush came in good condition and seems to be doing well. Once I?ve re potted it it should hopefully do well but too early to comment on that. Delivery was ahead of the estimated date so no complaints.
Review Submitted: 07/06/2018 - 07:19:51
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Excellent packaging and fast delivery.Product:
Lovely, bushy plant with bottle brushes already visible!!
Review Submitted: 07/06/2018 - 05:42:40
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I'm not at all happy with the plant you sent me it was supposed in a 9cm pot it came in a 6 cm one it looks like the roots had been pot bound for a couple of months what few flowers that where on the plant where dying off also parts of the plant had died too. You should be ashamed to send out a plant in this state.
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I'm very sorry to hear of this - please can you forward photos of the plant to [email protected] so we can look into this for you.
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Easy to use and plants arrived in excellent condition.
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The plants took two weeks to come and some were brokenProduct:
They both had broken branches
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Sometimes delivery takes a while possibly stock issuesProduct:
Overall pleased with items
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excellent productsProduct:
arrived well packed good condition
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Quick delivery �� lovely plants in excellent condition on arrivalProduct:
Beautiful plants, in excellent condition
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happy with purchase ,
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Good serviceProduct:
Yea look really good
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The plant arrived in excellent condition and was well packedProduct:
This plant was very healthy and just coming into flower
Review Submitted: 27/04/2018 - 07:31:42
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Looks like a very healthy plant
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very good,quick serviceProduct:
lovely quality. plant
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It is a pleasure to deal with this company. They have good quality plants.Product:
Too early to say how they will grow
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Garden Bargains are really good. I had a few problems caused by the courier & Garden Bargains sorted the problems out for me. I would highly recommend them.. Really helpful customer service.
Review Submitted: 20/06/2017 - 09:39:55
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Service good, some plants poor.
GardenBargains Comments
Firstly, thank you very much for your recent order with us. I am very sorry to see that your order arrived in poor condition. This is not what we expect and I shall be contacting the relevant team to ensure this does not continue to happen. Do you have any images that you could send over to us please?
Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you, any questions or queries please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Katy Rogers
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Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you, any questions or queries please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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Review Submitted: 05/06/2017 - 21:45:48
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Had to wait for a replacement plant that died over winter but staff always very helpful.Product:
Excellent plant. Arrived in perfect condition.
Review Submitted: 26/04/2017 - 07:35:44
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Superb plants delivered on time
Review Submitted: 18/05/2016 - 21:18:44
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Always first class service from garden bargains.Product:
Good strong plant already in flower, very happy.
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easy to order, arrived very well packedProduct:
Lovely
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Customer service very good. Shame delivery can take longer than expected.
Review Submitted: 10/05/2016 - 05:32:26
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