Bottlebrush trees
- Craig52
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I don't know about that Rob, if it's a callisterman ?they should be all safe to use. I did try these one year but they lost their leaves very quickly and ended up with sticks.Rob wrote:Me too -the red ones are safe but there's a white looking one that's meant to be poisonous.
The cream of brush is coastal tea tree imo. Craig
- gomer
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- Location: Victoria Australia
P.s wear long pants and a jumper to collect it has the name prickly tea tree for a good reason.
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Keeper of Australian Grass Finches
- Jenk
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Thanks for the pics looks like lemon scented tea tree (leptospermum petersonii) except for the buds and prickles... which I would think would be OK to use?? has anyone used this variety??
Jenk
- escapin
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Personally I think some people make things a bit too technical.
I cut down any bushy looking native tree that I can stuff into a wire cyclinder. If the birds like it they nest in it. I've used pine trees, some kind of tea tree and a few prickly little bushes that I have no idea what they are. Birds nest in them all so far.
I think a selection of different grasses for the birds to build the nest with is more important. Green grass stems, coconut fibre, novemeber grass, bits of paper bark and other handfuls of mulchy looking stuff all get put in my aviary and different species use all of them.
I cut down any bushy looking native tree that I can stuff into a wire cyclinder. If the birds like it they nest in it. I've used pine trees, some kind of tea tree and a few prickly little bushes that I have no idea what they are. Birds nest in them all so far.
I think a selection of different grasses for the birds to build the nest with is more important. Green grass stems, coconut fibre, novemeber grass, bits of paper bark and other handfuls of mulchy looking stuff all get put in my aviary and different species use all of them.