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Betty Ridley Camellia (Ball)
Camellia japonica ‘Betty Ridley’
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 90L
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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.
Betty Ridley Camellia (Ball) - Camellia japonica ‘Betty Ridley’
Clipped into a ball, a japonica camellia gives you something box and buxus cannot: a tight evergreen sphere that flowers through the middle of winter. ‘Betty Ridley’ carries soft pink formal double blooms with the neat overlapping petal arrangement that japonica collectors prize, and the plant’s naturally slow, compact growth is what makes the shape practical to maintain. Unlike most clipped evergreens, Camellia japonica will hold that sphere in genuine shade.
Why Betty Ridley as a Ball
Formal Double Blooms: Petals sit in even overlapping rows, giving a precise rosette that suits a formal setting.
Clipped Sphere: The shape is already trained and simply needs one cut a year to hold it.
Colour in the Cold: Flowering runs through winter into early spring when clipped evergreens are otherwise just green.
Shade Capable: It holds density and continues flowering in positions that receive only morning sun.
Slow and Steady: Modest annual growth means the shape does not run away between maintenance visits.
Ideal Applications
Pairs flanking a door: Two matched balls give symmetry at an entry without the sun demands of buxus.
Shaded containers: A large pot on a south facing terrace suits both the plant and the form.
Repeated in a shaded bed: A run of spheres brings order to a woodland style planting.
Formal courtyard structure: It provides evergreen geometry where a hedge would feel too heavy.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1m to 1.2m centres
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5m to 2m centres
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring
Soil & Drainage: Acidic, humus rich, free draining soil around pH 5.5 to 6.5, kept away from lime and concrete run off. Surface roots are shallow, so avoid digging around the base.
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice weekly through the first summer and never allow the rootball to dry while flower buds are forming, as dry stress causes bud drop. Mulch to 75mm held clear of the stem, and prune to reshape immediately after flowering finishes so the next season’s buds set on the new growth.
Plant Details
Height: 0.9m to 1.4m as a maintained ball
Width: 0.8m to 1.2m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Morning sun with afternoon shade, or filtered light
Native to: The species comes from Japan, Korea and eastern China
Flower Colour: Soft pink
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.







