Bottle brush tree?

Hi I have a bottle brush tree (Standard)which has got damaged with the winds and my fence blowing down on it.
It has snaped the trunk off, but there are sprouts jutting out from ground level.
Dose anyone know weather or not it will sprout back or should i just dig it up?
MEF 750

 

Hi, mef750, your bottlebrush shoudl sprout back into good health. I am quite a mercenary with shrubs when they get out of hand. They certainly respond to my heavy-handed pruning.

Good luck with it.

 

Thanks a lot Lady of leisure, its been in a tub for a couple of years. but when i did part of my garden up last year i decided to put it into the ground. Its the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
MEF750

 

Hi mef
Does it do OK planted out? The frosts not too cold for it? Are you in North West England or North West outer Mongolia? (only joking)
We always take ours in to the greenhouse for winter. If it would grow happily outdoors I have a spot for it

 

I presume when you say standard it is Callistemon Citrinus Splendens with larger leaves than the common type, it is less hardy though. It will branch out again and should flower again but you will have naturally lost the standard shape. The only Callistemon (Bottlebrush) that grows into a small tree is Viminalis and grows to 20/30 ft which is only half hardy even suffering in the south of the UK. I have one in a large pot and has been out all winter and is now full of buds but that is only due to a mild winter.

 

This was my Calestemon,I left it out two years ago.............Frost killed it.Very sad...
Lesson learned.

 

Oh, how sad! My Viminalis is just starting to bud. I can't wait till my Flaming Fire species does it's thing in the summer.

 

Roders, yours is(was) Citrinus Splendens or one of it's newer cultivars and is not fully hardy as you have unfortunately found out. The hardiest ones, are C.Linearis(Subalatus or Rigidus) the common red one, C.Seiberei, greeish yellow, C. Mauve Mist, deep pink/mauve, C. Pallidus, yellow and C.Salignus with long yellow brushes and almost hardy C Pinnifolius, red.
LoL, I thought your Viminalis would be ahead of mine!
I have variety in bud for the first time which was given to me as unnamed seed, I was told it is orangey green, I'll post a pic when they come out.

 

Roders mine is just like the pic, Ive had it 4 years with loverly blooms on. I have no greenhouse to put it in winter, so i always put it near by the wall where the wind couldnt get to it in winter. I wast told though when I bought it to plant it in the ground in a sunny position.
MEF750

 

I planted two C. citrinus (bushes) last year in two very different gardens and they have both come through the winter with no problems. Admittedly the winter has been on the milds side but I'm still pleasantly surprised.