Hoffman Wonder Garden Plant Sale
Saturday, 4/26 10-12pm
Inside the Hoffman Center
(or if weather’s good, in WG)
Come June in the WG, everybody wants to know about the tall plant with the long waving arms that wears bold magenta flowers at its branch ends.
The shape of those flowers gives the game away: bottlebrush, which is both its common name and an apt description of its long, enduring blossoms. If you’ve got full sun and you’re looking for a show stopper, you’ll be delighted to know we’ll have a bunch at the sale.
At 6’x6’, whether you call it a big shrub or a small tree, Callistemon pallidus ‘Eleanor’ is a statement. For its size, we find it quite graceful if in an odd cattywampus way. We love that it’s evergreen with lovely light bark, creates THE most intriguing seed capsules and will not fail to please on the coast in the hottest spot you can give it.
Water? A bit through summer, not much.
‘Eleanor’ is one of the two bottlebrush we’re offering. The other wins for Most Outrageous Name: Callistemon ‘Wetlands Challenged Mutant’. No lie.
Our ‘WCM’ is only 2 years old but starting to pick up speed as it heads towards what we’re told will be a pillar of foliage and flower, reaching 7’ high but only 3’ wide. We can’t wait to see it!
For now, it’s a fine-textured and very tidy evergreen plant promising 4-inch long soft yellow flowers. Stop by the WG to check the mutant out, it’s in the middle of the garden by our commissioned metal sculpture from Indio Metal Arts.
