wcgypsy said:If I thought for sure that something was green...and Janet told me it was red, I'd believe Janet....lol..
All I can say is that it does look like Leptospermum petersonii, it is grown in the US by San Marcos growers which is north of Los Angeles and I checked out other Leptospermums they were offering, this is the only one which matches. A shot of one showing the new coloured foliage ..
http://www.grevilleas.com.au/l...
It is obvious from the shots Leslieray provided that the plant has been cut back to near the ground, making it produce long shoots.
As a kid growing up in Aus on a farm, me and my brothers used to weave the long shoots of tea-tree to make a hideout, those were the days before kids had all sorts of manufactured rubbish thrust upon them but not everybody was fortunate to live in the country on a farm. The dirt road to our farm was a mile from the main road, there was plentiful wildflowers, bottlebrushes and tea-trees along the side of the road. I went back about 25 years ago and there was nothing left, it had all been stripped. How sad that human beings can do so much damage to the fauna and flora where there is no need.
