Hi! New to this forum and just picked up on your post. I live in Shropshire, not too far from you, and grow 26 species/varieties of Callistemon (six in the ground and the rest in pots) so might be able to help. I would agree that your bottlebrush appears to be either subulatus or rigidus, most proba...

Hi All! I am based in relatively frosty Shropshire, but can look out of my front window onto a bed that contains nothing but around 30 species of Australian shrubs, including Grevilleas, Callistemons, Hakeas, Banksias, Telopea, Leptospermums and Melaleuca, all clustered around a 2.0m tall Acacia pat...