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Red Tip Lilly Pilly
Acmena smithii ‘Red Tip’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 75L 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 900mm of clear 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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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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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.
Red Tip Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii ‘Red Tip’
Where the more compact coloured lilly pillies top out around three metres, ‘Red Tip’ is the taller option, so it is the one to use when the screen has to clear a two-storey neighbour rather than a fence. New growth emerges bronze-red on a vigorous, upright, well-furnished frame of Acmena smithii, and the acmena parentage brings the same freedom from lilly pilly psyllid that makes this group so much easier to maintain than the syzygiums.
Why Red Tip
Screening Height: Reaches genuine screening height, which suits tall boundary work rather than low hedging.
Coloured New Growth: Fresh flushes open bronze to red against glossy dark green mature leaves.
Vigour: Grows quickly enough to close a gap in a couple of seasons on good soil with regular water.
Psyllid Resistance: The leaves stay clean, without the bumps and distortion seen on susceptible varieties.
Habitat Value: Summer flowers and edible mauve berries support insects and fruit-eating birds.
Ideal Applications
Tall Privacy Screen: A clipped or informal row at 3m to 4m to block an elevated overlook.
Boundary Hedge on Acreage: Long runs where scale and speed matter more than a fine clipped face.
Windbreak Planting: Dense evergreen foliage filters wind across an exposed garden.
Backdrop Planting: A deep green wall behind flowering shrubs, sculpture or a pool area.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3.5m
Best Planting Season: Spring to autumn in warm districts, spring in cooler areas
Soil & Drainage: Well drained soil improved with organic matter, slightly acidic to neutral, with consistent summer moisture
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week through the first summer, as an unevenly watered hedge line establishes at different rates and never quite squares up. Mulch the whole run, feed twice a year, and tip prune from the first season so the plants thicken rather than racing to height with bare legs.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m unclipped, easily held at 3 to 4m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen, with red-bronze new growth
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Garden selection of a species native to eastern Australian rainforest
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.







