Unusual, vibrant, and one of the best flowering shrubs for a sun-soaked border, the unmistakable bottlebrush is something of an attention-seeker in the plant world.
Belonging to the Callistemon genus, bottlebrush plants have crimson-red flowers that are famed for a frothy appearance, the result of each flower producing thousands of stamens. It is these stamens that give the plant its nickname, seeming brush-like on approach.
