Re: update on garden/bottle brush

Well, Jim, we make do with what we can grow in Zone 5.  However, I recognize
your Bottlebrush from our locla botanical Conservatory.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush


> That's kind of a neat looking plant, too, Kitty. But nothing like the
> Callistemon.
>
> http://plantsdatabase.com/showpicture/28954/
>
>
> On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Kitty wrote:
>
> > Bottle Brush is indeed Callistemon linearis.  However, being a
> > northerner
> > myself, I'd never heard of it.  To me a Bottlebrush is short form for a
> > Bottlebrush Buckeye, Aesculus parviflora, as seen at:
> > http://snipurl.com/40ou
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush
> >
> >
> >> I think we're talking about two different bottlebrushes. I think
> >> Theresa is talking about Callistemon citrinus; Iowa's way too cold for
> >> it, Ceres.
> >>
> >> On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 11:32 PM, Theresa wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mine doesn't have any runners at all. Hmmmm.  I actually never heard
> >>> this
> >>> before.
> >>>
> >>> Theresa
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
> >>> Behalf Of Cersgarden@aol.com
> >>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:23 PM
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] update on garden
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In a message dated 1/21/04 9:35:41 PM, tchessie@comcast.net writes:
> >>>
> >>> << Bottlebrush bushes stay a very nice size and grow gradually for
> >>> the
> >>> first
> >>>
> >>> couple years.  Then, in the third winter they grow like crazy. >>
> >>>
> >>> Theresa, I have always wanted one but feel my garden is not large
> >>> enough but
> >>> did plant one in a new landscaping we did a few yrs ago.  They send
> >>> out
> >>> runners as I understand.  Can you try taking runners for a new plant?
> >>>     Ceres
> >>>
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> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
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