Leptospermum obovatum Starry Night Leptospermum obovatum Starry Night Botanical Name: Leptospermum obovatum Starry Night Common Names: Tea Tree, Native: Yes Foliage Type: Evergreen Plant Type: Hedging / Screening, Shrubs Plant Habit: Dense, Rounded, Shrub Like, Upright Description: One of the best native screening shrubs, with shiny black-purple foliage and covered in mass with starry white flowers, it’s a knockout. Easy to grow, it’s happy in full sun or light shade and will get to around two metres high and 1.5 wide. You can trim it to whatever you want. Use it to screen out a shed wall, the compost heap, the neighbour’s uglies, or for beauty alone, let it drift along a pathside where you’ll enjoy its weepy tendrils of new foliage. It will even fit nicely into a large container with some good potting mix. It really will grow just about anywhere. Mature Height: 2-4m Position: Full Sun, Semi Shade Mature Width: 1-2m Soil Type: Any, Well Drained Family Name: Myrtaceae Landscape Use(s): Bird Attracting, Borders / Shrubbery, Coastal Garden, Courtyard, Feature, Foliage Feature / Colour, Formal Garden, Habitat, Hedging / Origin: Australia Screening, Low Water Garden, Mass Planting, Verge, Wind Break, Container / Pot Characteristics: Pest & Diseases: Foliage Colours: Purple Generally trouble free Flower Colours: White Flower Fragrant: No Cultural Notes: Flowering Season: Spring, Summer Plant in moist well drained soil and apply an organic mulch. Fertilise with a native Fruit: Insignificant specific fertiliser. Prune after flowering to keep desired shape. Images and information supplied by Austraflora. Requirements: Growth Rate: Fast Plant Care: Maintenance Level: Low Keep moist during dry periods, Low phosphorus slow release fertiliser, Mulch well Water Usage: Medium / Moderate Tolerances: Drought: High Frost: High Wind: High Disclaimer: Information and images provided is to be used as a guide only. While every reasonable effort is made to ensure accuracy and relevancy of all information, any decisions based on this information are the sole responsibility of the viewer. Call 1300 787 401 plantmark.com.au.