Botanical Name
Melaleuca thymifolia ‘Little Beauty’
Common Name
Little Beauty Tea Tree
Description
Little Beauty Tea Tree is a fast-growing compact native shrub renowned for its showy light purple to mauve brush-like flowers and fragrant foliage that creates beautiful displays in Australian gardens. This attractive cultivar produces masses of purple-mauve cylindrical flower spikes from late spring to autumn, attracting honeyeaters and native bees while providing extended seasonal color. The small, erect blue-green leaves are fragrant when crushed, creating attractive fine-textured evergreen foliage that responds well to regular trimming for dense growth. Exceptionally adaptable once established, it thrives in almost any soil from poor and sandy to waterlogged conditions, preferring well-drained loam with added humus and moist positions. Perfect for pond margins, moist areas, and locations where compact native shrubs with reliable purple flowering create vibrant landscape displays with minimal maintenance.
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 compact cultivar thriving in various soil conditions from poor to waterlogged, preferring moist, well-drained positions with full sun to partial shade exposure in temperate to subtropical climates.
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