Greg's mystery garden bottlebrushes and the like

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This is one of many pages describing plants and animal life that we have in our garden. In many cases, we don't know what they are. Comments welcome.

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I originally thought that all these plants were bottlebrushes (Callistemon), but I'm no longer so sure. I certainly don't know what kind they are.

This one is almost certainly a bottlebrush. It was completely overgrown when we moved in, and shortly after this photo was taken, I pruned it radically:

The tree responded well to the pruning, despite the wrong time of year. Next to it is another suspected bottlebrush:

I suspect the tree below one is really a melaleuca. The brushes grow on established wood on the stem. I'll get more photos next time it blooms.

The following trees grown in a part of the garden that I haven't attended to at all yet.

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