Callistemon (Bottle Brush Shrub) help

Oh no not again Jack
Looking at the pics of "bottle brush" are nothing like mine that Someone told me that is a bottle brush, so I tended it carefully
Now I am sure I have been cultivationg a WEED

Jack McH

 

Jack, you win some you lose some. it's all in a days gardening. I bet it's a very healthy weed though.

 

Take a pic jack,some of mine are small still and look like weeds x

 

Joolz, leave it to regrow.

Nick, difficult to tell from that distance, could be C Palidus or possibly a Leucadendron, similar to Callistemons.
This was my C. Pallidus at my last garden.

 

I can not take a pic yet as it does not come into "bloom" until about July
The cane is about 3' to 4' high then I get a pink flower like a babys bottle brush well a little more tapered than that, about eight inches long

I will do a search on Ziggy's know your weeds lol

Jack McH

 

It doesn't look like a callistemon to me, I'm just wondering if it could be a banksia, possibly Protea family ?

 

I wish I had taken a close up now, but I remember thinking "Oooh big bottlebrush - must take photo" as I wandered by - it did have the right kind of flowers, thin leaves rather than needles & the strange round seed pods so Im pretty sure I was in the right area, but it was a bit of a monster. What I should have done was detach a few seed pods & smuggled them home, but I didn't think about it at the time.

 

Well, you'll just have to go back again!