The plants in my photos are seed-grown Melaleuca squarrosa. They're easily grown from seed and do well in our zone, which is Sunset Zone 17, rather a Banana Belt in the far northwestern corner of California. I have some that were sown from seed by myself, and some seedlings that were given to me by a friend who grows them 45 miles north of me, in Pistol River, Oregon. That area is also Sunset Zone 17, and the Aussies do well here and there. They were given to me by a 90-year-old friend who grows a lot of unusual things, and at 90 years old is still seeding his property with Aussies to naturalize. My young seedlings spent the perhaps 20-degree frosty nights this past winter beneath an outside table, draped with Visqueen.

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