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Bottlebrush for Hummingbirds and Beauty
An evergreen native of Australia, the bottlebrush tree (Callistemon), and it’s smaller shrub cultivars, thrive here in southern Louisiana and are in bloom now. They provide an exotic pop of color in the form of bright crimson and pink blooms, which are shaped exactly like their namesake, a bottle brush. It can adapt to many soil conditions provided the site drains well. Bottlebrush prefers full…