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Nursery Direct
Dwarf Lilly Pilly
Acmena smithii var. minor
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 1.2m of clear, level access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Dwarf Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii var. minor
This is the small-leaved natural variety of the common lilly pilly, and it is the one to use when the finished hedge needs to be waist to shoulder height rather than three storeys. Acmena smithii var. minor holds fine glossy leaves on a naturally twiggy frame, so it clips into a crisp face and stays furnished right to the ground. Like all true acmenas it is highly resistant to the psyllid that pits and puckers the leaves of many syzygium hedges, which is the single biggest reason landscapers specify it.
Why Dwarf Lilly Pilly
Psyllid Resistance: Not affected by the pimple psyllid that disfigures many other lilly pilly hedges, so no ongoing spraying.
Fine Leaf Texture: Small leaves take clipping cleanly and give a smooth, formal hedge surface rather than a coarse one.
Naturally Compact: The plant wants to stay small, so hedging is maintenance rather than a constant fight with its genetics.
Bronze New Growth: Fresh flushes emerge coppery bronze against the older dark green foliage.
Fruit and Flower: Fluffy white summer flowers are followed by mauve to pink edible berries that attract birds.
Ideal Applications
Low Formal Hedge: Clipped to between 0.8m and 1.5m it makes a fine-textured evergreen border.
Pool Surround: Dense to the base, evergreen, and it stays within the setbacks around a pool fence.
Topiary and Balls: The small leaf and tight branching suit clipped spheres, cones and cubes in pots.
Path Edging Mass: Planted in continuous runs to define paths, courtyards and driveway edges.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.5 to 0.8m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.2 to 1.5m
Best Planting Season: Spring through autumn in warm districts, spring in cooler areas
Soil & Drainage: Free-draining soil improved with compost, slightly acidic to neutral, kept evenly moist but never waterlogged
Establishment Care: Water every second day for the first two weeks, then twice weekly through the first summer, which is when hedge plantings most often fail. Mulch the full run to 75mm, feed with a controlled release native-safe fertiliser in spring and autumn, and start light tip pruning early to build density from the base up.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 4m unclipped, easily held at 1 to 1.5m
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Rainforest margins of eastern New South Wales and Queensland
Flower Colour: White
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







