Description
- This Bottlebrush has hot pink to bright violet flowers that look like bottle-brushes. It is usually seen as a rounded shrub, but can be easily pruned into a tree-form. The flowers attract hummingbirds and are most profuse in spring with occasional blooms in the summer. The seeds stay attached to the stem like beads.
- This tree is evergreen year-round, which is great for screening and privacy. But avoid planting it where you might want sun in the winter.
- Violet Bottlebrush thrives on low or medium water and is a colorful addition to a "Water Wise" landscape.
- This tough and adaptable tree can be pruned as a standard tree shape, a multi-trunk tree, or as a screen. Without pruning when young, the Bottlebrush will grow into a rounded shrub with foliage to the ground. With simple pruning, you can shape this into a flat/wide screen, or a single or multi-trunk tree. To keep this form, prune new growth off the trunk a couple times a year. As the tree forms a canopy, it will need less pruning to keep the trunk clear.
- Closely related Lemon Bottlebrush has bright red flowers, and Weeping Bottlebrush is a narrow, weeping tree that grows taller but has the same red flowers.
Size
Height: 15 to 20 feet
Spread: 15 to 20 feet
Growth Rate: faster
Irrigation needed: low or medium water
Fall Color: none, evergreen
Flowers: large, pink to violet, bottle brush-shaped flowers
Seeds/Fruit: small (1/4) bead-like capsules attached to branches
Planting Distances
Front of green utility box: 8 feet
Building or swimming pool: 4 feet
Fence, underground utilities: 3 feet
Paving: 2 feet
OK to plant under high voltage lines
