new plants to go in

Just had a nice pub meal and then off to the garden centre. Sue splashed the cash and got a Cytisus (Boskoop Ruby) and a Callistemon ( bottle brush) plant to fill in the space left from the removal of the bush

Area needs tidying first

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Hope they grow well for you, personally love those bottle brush trees. Someone down the road has a huge one.

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I had to look it up but yes, I like those a lot.

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The broom should look lovely Bazza

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Sue's choice so can't blame me if they don't grow

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Saw this exchange and bought a bottle brush plant couple of months ago... it's just beginning to flower, fabulous colour!!
Thanks for the inspiration on here, I'd never heard​ of it before.

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Ours had a bad start with extreme dry weather which nearly killed it, still got brown tips from that time but now seems to be picking up, so fingers crossed

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Oh dear, maybe its me or maybe its the cold in Yorkshire but I tried with two Bottle Brush plants... they both died.

It was at my last house though and the soil was very clay like... whatever the reason I gave up trying to grow them. Hope you have better luck than me

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Mine died too Summer, I think they're a bit fussy

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I think they like more of a light soil Tess. I bought at the begining of the year a Bright pink perennial salvia. It is flowering now and the garden centre lady told me if I cut it right back after flowering I will get another flush of flowers later in the year. It looks like this: