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Nursery Direct
Strawberry Tree
Arbutus unedo
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: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 50L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 430mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m 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.
Strawberry Tree - Arbutus unedo
Flowers and fruit at the same time, in the middle of autumn, is an unusual trick. Arbutus unedo hangs clusters of small white urn shaped bells alongside the previous season's warty red fruit, over dark leathery leaves and a trunk that peels to warm cinnamon brown as it ages. It belongs in the same design slot as an olive: a slow, gnarled, drought hardy Mediterranean evergreen, but with autumn colour and bird value the olive cannot offer.
Why Strawberry Tree
Autumn Interest: White bells and red fruit appear together from autumn into early winter, when little else is working.
Character Trunk: Older stems shed in strips to reveal smooth cinnamon bark, and the trunk becomes fluted and sculptural.
Lime Tolerance: Unusually for its family, it grows well on alkaline and limestone soils, which suits much of South Australia and coastal Western Australia.
Drought Hardiness: Once established it carries through a dry Australian summer with little or no supplementary water.
Bird Food: The fleshy fruit is taken by currawongs, blackbirds and other garden birds through winter.
Ideal Applications
Mediterranean Garden: Grouped with olive, rosemary, lavender and cistus in a low water planting scheme.
Small Feature Tree: Lifted to a multi stem or single trunk form as a courtyard specimen.
Coastal Windbreak: Tolerates salt wind and poor sandy soil in exposed positions.
Informal Screen: Planted in a row and left unclipped for a dense evergreen boundary.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m for a dense informal screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m for open crowns
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring
Soil & Drainage: Free draining soil of almost any type, acid through to strongly alkaline. Will not accept heavy waterlogged clay
Establishment Care: Water fortnightly through the first two summers to encourage deep rooting rather than shallow frequent watering. Mulch to 75mm, avoid rich feeding which produces soft growth, and prune only to lift the canopy or open the trunk, since the tree's slow natural shape is its main asset.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 8m
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: The Mediterranean region and western Europe, including Ireland
Flower Colour: White, occasionally pink flushed
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.







