Melaleuca

Melaleuca laterita

Bright orange-red bottle-brush flowers 7cm long, perched in the sparsely foliaged evergreen medium shrub. Narrow small leaves. Good summer and autumn flowers.
Attracts nectar eating birds.

Melaleuca thymifolia

Evergreen small shrub with clusters of rosy mauve or violet ringed flowers over a long period including summer, small light green leaves.

Melaleuca leucadendra

Fine leaved tree with slightly weeping habit and papery bark. Cream coloured flowers borne in 15cm long spikes in autumn.