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Dwarf Cardamom
Alpinia nutans
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Supplied in 400mm
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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 Cardamom - Alpinia nutans
Dwarf cardamom is the clumping ginger landscapers reach for when a shaded bed needs body rather than another fern. Alpinia nutans builds a dense rhizomatous clump of arching, glossy strap leaves that release a warm cardamom scent when brushed or crushed, holding form year round without the die back of true gingers. It sits lower and stays tidier than Alpinia zerumbet, which makes it usable in narrow beds and courtyards where a full shell ginger would swamp the space.
Why Dwarf Cardamom
Aromatic Foliage: Crushed or brushed leaves carry a genuine cardamom fragrance, so it earns its place along paths and seating edges.
Shade Performance: It holds dense, glossy foliage in filtered light and part shade where most tropical foliage plants thin out.
Clumping Habit: Growth spreads by short rhizomes into a slowly widening clump rather than running through a garden bed.
Year Round Cover: Foliage persists through winter in frost free districts, so beds do not go bare in the cooler months.
Low Maintenance: Old canes can be cut to ground level and the clump regenerates from the base without needing lifting or dividing every season.
Ideal Applications
Understorey Planting: Massed beneath established palms, frangipani or mature canopy trees it covers bare soil and lifts the mid layer.
Low Informal Border: Planted in a single row it forms a soft green edge to shaded paths, driveways and pool fencing.
Courtyard and Pool Surrounds: The lush leaf gives a resort feel in small shaded spaces without dropping heavy litter into water.
Large Containers: It holds well in pots and planter boxes on covered patios and balconies, provided the mix stays moist.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.6 to 0.8m for a continuous low border
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1 to 1.2m for individual clumps
Best Planting Season: Spring and summer in temperate districts, year round in the subtropics and tropics
Soil & Drainage: Moist, humus rich soil that drains freely; heavy clay should be improved with compost and raised slightly
Establishment Care: Water deeply two or three times a week through the first summer, as the leaf edges brown quickly if the root zone dries out. Keep a 75mm layer of coarse organic mulch clear of the crown and feed with a slow release fertiliser in early spring.
Plant Details
Height: 1 to 1.5m
Width: 1 to 1.5m, slowly widening as the clump matures
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Filtered light to part shade; tolerates deep shade, but foliage scorches in hot afternoon sun
Native to: Southern China and mainland South East Asia
Flower Colour: White flushed pink, though it flowers only sparsely in cultivation and is grown for foliage
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.







