Description These showy Australian trees are the best small trees around, bringing in the local birds and providing simply beautiful flowers all summer long. The grafted Eucalypts are reliable in their flowering, good for a courtyard and terrific as a street tree (grows below the wires). Being grafted it will accommodate all types of soils. Huge heads of gum flowers adorn the canopy. Individually grafted to withstand coastal environments and a variety of soil types. It repeat flowers again in autumn.
Size 5m x 3m (15ft x 9ft)
Conditions Full sun / part shade, frost tender
Features Showy flowers followed by large gum nuts attract birds.
Feeding Feed with Garden Gold for native plants.
Uses A good flowering gum for large tubs with wonderful heads of 'snuggle pot and cuddle pie' flowers twice a year. Great for small spaces, terraces, balconies, roof gardens and under street wires. Brings in the nectar feeding birds and the seed-eaters later with big showy gum nuts.
Cultivars
'Wild Sunset' has orange flowers and bronze/green new growth 'Wildfire' Scarlet flowers and bronze new growth
'Orange Splendour' (bright orange).
'Brilliant Orange' if you want a smaller 3m high shrub.
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