I've started plenty of threads about nursery closings, so I think I have every right to finally get to start one about a nursery being under new ownership and having a major update of their website

https://woodlanders.net/products/callistemon-rigidus-clemson

So, good for them, good for us if they continue to offer Woodlander's mix of classic and new varieties, all very well grown for the price. If there were two mail order nurseries I'd have to single out for decades of sending consistently quality plants, it would be Woodlanders and Camellia Forest. (There are others I've had positive experiences with, but not for nearly so long a stretch of time) So I sure hope that can continue, but I'll take a wait a see attitude - owning a nursery often isn't what people expect it to be...as customers of Rarefind and Annie's Annuals found out as they went through ownership changes over the past decade or so.

BTW - I semi-randomly chose that URL because I stumbled upon the new website while looking for info on that plant. FWIW, though these two cultivars, 'Clemson Hardy' and 'Woodlanders Hardy', are being rated as zone 7 by various southern nurseries, they really aren't. I have one and I hope it will last some years, but I've lost both of them before in cold winters here that nevertheless stayed above 0F; so these clones are clearly are NOT 'zone 7' hardy in the way that means for many other broad leaved evergreens. And in fact I was at NurCar in spring 2023, after a cold winter in the south, and the *ORIGINAL* 'Clemson Hardy' mother plant had severe foliar burning, while in the very same garden, a Schefflera delavayi was 100% intact. One Green World in the PNW, to their credit, more realistically just notes that Woodlander's Hardy is OK to 10F. https://onegreenworld.com/product/woodlanders-hardy-red-bottlebrush/

The problem is a mature one of these can probably survive going well below 10F, once in a while, but not without injury...and they aren't going to last in a climate where they are having to restart from their roots too often. It's kind of like the tragedy of my 20' Euc parvula years ago: it survived polar vortex I, but just didn't have the strength to resprout, and then weather polar vortex II!