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Birthday Girl Camellia
Camellia japonica ‘Birthday Girl’
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: 70L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 90L 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
Looking for a larger size?
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.
Send An EnquiryYou order. We do the rest.
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.
Birthday Girl Camellia - Camellia japonica ‘Birthday Girl’
Japonica camellias earn their place in Australian gardens by doing two things nothing else does as well: flowering heavily in the dead of winter and looking presentable in shade all year. Camellia japonica ‘Birthday Girl’ carries large double blooms in pink tones on an upright, densely leafed shrub with thick, lustrous, dark green foliage. Supplied at advanced size, it goes in as a finished shrub rather than a plant that needs five years to become one.
Why Birthday Girl Camellia
Winter Bloom: Flowering runs through the coldest weeks, from around mid winter into early spring.
Shade Performance: It flowers reliably in dappled light and under high canopy, where sun loving shrubs go leggy.
Substantial Foliage: The leaf is thick, glossy and dark, giving a solid evergreen mass for the rest of the year.
Upright Habit: Growth is naturally more vertical than spreading, which suits it to beds against walls and fences.
Long Lived: Camellias are slow, woody and durable, and a well sited plant will outlast most of the garden around it.
Ideal Applications
Shaded Screening Hedge: A row on a south or east boundary gives evergreen privacy plus a winter flowering season.
Understorey Planting: Sits comfortably beneath established trees where root competition is not severe.
Feature Shrub: A single advanced plant near an entry or window brings colour into view during winter.
Large Containers: Slow growth and a fibrous root system make it a strong performer in generous pots in shaded courtyards.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1m to 1.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2m to 2.5m
Best Planting Season: Autumn through to early spring
Soil & Drainage: Acidic, humus rich and free draining, ideally pH 5.5 to 6.5; raise the bed on clay soils
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week through the first two summers, as bud drop the following winter usually traces back to dry roots the previous summer. Mulch with composted bark over the shallow roots, keep it clear of the trunk, and feed with a camellia or azalea formulation once flowering has finished.
Plant Details
Height: 2m to 3m, taller over many years
Width: 1.5m to 2m
Growth Rate: Slow to Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Morning sun to dappled shade, sheltered from hot afternoon sun
Native to: Species native to Japan, Korea and eastern China; the cultivar is of garden origin
Flower Colour: Pink, large double
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.







