Bottlebrush
These red flowering shrubs are among the best in hedge shrubs for South Florida. They grow fast, and their dense foliage stays full to the ground. They’re also versatile enough to work as accents or even as small flowering trees. This attractive plant blooms on and off all year, more in warmer months.
Central Florida’s Premiere Tree Installer, The Tree Planters located in Lakeland, is your #1 source for large, rare, and exotic palms and trees. At The Tree Planters, we have installed and transplanted thousands of large trees of every variety all over Florida for over 50 years. Every tree we sell, we plant. Every tree we plant, we guarantee for One Full Year.
We offer Free Delivery Within a 50-mile radius of Lakeland, Florida (All other delivery fees will be quoted at time of purchase), and a One-Year Guarantee on every tree planted by The Tree Planters.
Each fuzzy red flower resembling (what else) a bottle brush attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, making this plant a good choice for a butterfly garden.
Honeybees love the blossoms as well. Though the bees are busy doing their job, many people are afraid of them so don’t place this plant right next to a door or too close to a walkway.
Another form of bottlebrush is the dwarf shrub “Little John” which can be kept about 3 feet. And the beautiful weeping bottlebrush tree is a popular small landscape tree.
You can encourage the Red Cluster bottlebrush to grow into a handsome multi-trunk tree by keeping the base of the plant free of new shoots.
