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Scarlet Compacta Bottlebrush – Callistemon – 3 Gallon Pot

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Scarlet Compacta Bottlebrush

Callistemon citrinus ‘Scarlet Compacta’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 10–11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 10-12′

Width at Maturity: 8-10′

Spacing: 5-7′ for solid hedges; 11’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Broad, Bushy, Upright

Growth Rate: Moderate, Fast

Flower Color: Bright Red

Flower Size: 3-4″ in length

Flowering Period: Spring, Summer

Flower Type: Cylindrical, Bottlebrush-like

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Medium to Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Some Shade is tolerated

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist

Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.0 (Acid to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Average to Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies, Birds

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect

Description

Scarlet Compacta Bottlebrush is well known for it’s unique and interesting bottle-brush like bright red flowers with golden anthers. The red, cylindrical flowers featuring numerous stamens resembling bottlebrushes, come in a massive display in spring and summer contrasting nicely with the bright green foliage. The leaves emerge coppery before maturing to medium green and have have a fresh, lemony scent when bruised.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 10 to 12 feet tall and 8 to 10 feet wide, the Scarlet Compacta Bottlebrush can be grown as a large shrub or lower branches can be removed to form an attractive small tree. It is ideal for use as a focal point specimen, in groupings, or as formal or informal hedge or privacy screen. A fine addition to tropical gardens, butterfly gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Spacing: 5-7′ for solid hedges; 12’+ for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 10a, where this Bottlebrush is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Scarlet Compacta Bottlebrush is exceptionally easy to grow in most any well-drained soil. Prefers full sun but will tolerate some shade. Plants will require a moist but well-drained soil when young but established plants are very drought tolerant. Bottlebrush have very few if any insect or disease problems, and deer won’t touch them! Tolerates lots of heat and salt air.

Helpful Articles

Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Callistemon Bottlebrush shrubs.

How To Plant & Care For Bottlebrush Plants

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I have purchased 3 bottle brush plants from Wilson’s nursery and they came absolutely beautiful and are doing great! I have purchased 5 other ones from other nurseries and all 5 have died! They were a bit cheaper in price so that is why I did that. But the old saying is “you get what you pay for!” So I will a always buy from Wilson’s from now on!——————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG