"saph.sty24" wrote in message
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hi there
last year i bought a beutiful standard bottle brush callistemon whish is
a plant pot it flowered all summer
anyway as winter set in and it colder i was told to protect it so put it
in the green house i kept it moist as i was told and it did great i
checked it every couple of days
then i got swine flu and was layed up in bed for a week and half when i
eventually made it down the bottom of the garden still very ill i opened
the green house to find the bottle brush with brown leaves and black
spots on them at no time while i was ill did we have any frost so i dont
think its frost damage
the first thing i checked was to see if it had dried out it hadnt it was
still moist i scraped the bark to see if i could find any green in there
at the time i could not
i have took the bottle brush out of the green house and put it on the
patio where it can get some sun. i have left it there now 3 weeks and i
checked again for green under the bark there is some now showing signs
of green there but the leaves are still brown with spots i have tried to
get rid of as many of the ones with the black spots as i think this is
fungus

do you think it will come back and should i get rid of the brown leaves

i am just confused as it was doing so well

Callistemon don't grow in moist enclosed environments in the wild. I'd say
that the moistness of a greenhouse probalby did the damage to the foliage
and it's probably a blessing that you couldn't get out and water the plant
regularly. Brits tend to kill antipodian natives with overpampering. See
the following for general info then explore their site for more specific
info:
http://www.anbg.gov.au/callistemon/index.html