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Nursery Direct
Japanese Camellia
Camellia japonica
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.
Supplied in 200L
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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.
Japanese Camellia - Camellia japonica
Few shrubs hold their shape, their gloss and their flowering season as reliably as Camellia japonica, which does its main work through the coldest weeks of an Australian winter when the rest of the garden has stopped performing. Grown as a large specimen it builds a dense, layered canopy of dark leathery leaves that reads as a solid green wall from three metres away. Gardeners choose it over gardenia or azalea because it will take genuine shade, live for fifty years or more, and never look ragged out of season.
Why Japanese Camellia
Winter Flowering: The main flush runs from late autumn through to early spring depending on the selection, filling the gap between the last of the salvias and the first of the roses.
Genuine Shade Tolerance: It flowers usefully on a southern wall or under an established canopy where most flowering shrubs simply sulk.
Dense Year Round Screen: Branching is close and layered right to ground level, so a single row blocks sightlines without needing a fence behind it.
Clean Foliage: The waxy dark leaves shed dust, resist scorch in filtered light and stay presentable through summer.
Long Life: Established plants routinely outlast the houses they were planted against, and respond to renovation pruning even when decades old.
Ideal Applications
Shaded courtyard specimen: A single large plant in a south facing courtyard gives structure all year and colour in winter.
Formal screening hedge: Planted in a row it clips into a dense evergreen wall two to three metres tall along a boundary.
Underplanting mature trees: It thrives in the dappled light beneath established gums, oaks and liquidambars where lawn fails.
Entry statement pots: Large specimens hold their form in oversized containers beside a doorway with minimal fuss.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1m to 1.5m centres
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5m to 3m centres
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring; avoid establishing through peak summer heat
Soil & Drainage: Acidic, humus rich and free draining, ideally pH 5.5 to 6.5. Keep away from fresh lime, concrete washings and heavy clay that holds water.
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week through the first summer, easing back once new growth hardens, and never let the rootball dry out while buds are swelling. Mulch 75mm deep with composted bark held clear of the trunk, and shelter the plant from hot afternoon sun and drying westerly wind.
Plant Details
Height: 2m to 5m
Width: 1.5m to 3m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Morning sun with afternoon shade, or filtered light all day
Native to: Japan, Korea and eastern China
Flower Colour: White, pink or red depending on the selection supplied
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.







