Grown as annual flowers, they come in all sizes, from ground cover ... They grow to 12 to 15 inches and bloom non-stop throughout the summer with no need to remove faded blooms.

In the summer ... Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty to one those of ferns and cone-bearing trees, or conifers, which had thrived for 200 million years before the first bloom ...

While bottlebrush trees grown in the ground will become self-sufficient, specimens that are planted in pots will n ...

The cold snap in December, and the wet, sunny summer is thought to be the reason for the early bloom ... which helped develop the flower buds on many of the trees, and having very few frosts ...