Botanical Name
Melaleuca thymifolia ‘Pink Lace’
Common Name
Pink Lace Tea Tree
Description
Pink Lace Tea Tree is a dense mounded native shrub renowned for its delicate pink curled bottlebrush flowers and aromatic small leaves that creates beautiful displays in Australian gardens. This attractive cultivar produces masses of delicate pink cylindrical flower spikes sporadically all year, attracting honeyeaters and native bees while providing excellent honey production potential and continuous garden interest. The small aromatic leaves are fragrant when crushed and create attractive fine-textured evergreen foliage perfect for low-growing hedge applications. Hardy and drought tolerant once established, it thrives in most soil types and full sun to dappled shade positions with regular watering encouraging more prolific flowering. Perfect for hedging, shrubberies, containers, and areas where dense native shrubs with reliable pink flowering create structured landscape displays.
Plant Category
Small Shrubs
Size (H x W)
Height: 1-1.5 meters, Spread: 1-1.5 meters
Melaleuca thymifolia naturally occurs in eastern Australia, with this cultivar thriving in various soil types with good adaptability and full sun to dappled shade exposure in temperate to subtropical climates with excellent drought and frost tolerance.
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