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Emerald Avenue Hornbeam
Carpinus betulus ‘Emerald Avenue’
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: 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L 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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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.
Emerald Avenue Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus ‘Emerald Avenue’
European hornbeam is the workhorse of formal European landscapes, and ‘Emerald Avenue’ is the selection made for street and avenue use: a strong central leader, an even upright oval crown and uniform habit from tree to tree. Carpinus betulus ‘Emerald Avenue’ carries deeply ribbed dark green leaves that turn gold and butter yellow before dropping, and it takes clipping better than almost any other deciduous tree, which is why it dominates pleached and hedged work in cool climate Australian gardens.
Why Emerald Avenue Hornbeam
Uniformity: Selected for consistent form, so a row of them matches, which matters in an avenue or a pleached screen.
Clipping response: Buds freely from old wood, tolerating repeated shearing into hedges, blocks and pleached frames.
Autumn colour: Foliage turns clear yellow to warm gold in cool districts, with dried leaves often held into winter on clipped plants.
Structural trunk: The fluted grey bark and straight leader give strong winter structure once the canopy drops.
Soil tolerance: Handles heavier and more alkaline soils than beech, its usual design alternative.
Ideal Applications
Driveway avenue: Matched rows create the classic formal approach in Southern Highlands, Adelaide Hills and Victorian cool climate gardens.
Pleached screen: Trained on a frame above a fence line to lift privacy without taking ground-level garden space.
Tall clipped hedge: Planted closely and sheared into a green wall two to four metres high.
Street and car park tree: Its tidy upright crown and tolerance of compacted ground suit hard urban settings.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2.5m for hedging and pleaching
Spacing (feature/avenue): 6 to 8m
Best Planting Season: Winter into early spring while dormant is ideal, though containerised stock can go in through autumn
Soil & Drainage: Wide tolerance across loam, clay loam and chalky or alkaline soils, provided drainage is reasonable. Improve heavy clay with gypsum and organic matter before planting
Establishment Care: Water deeply once or twice a week through the first two summers, as young hornbeams scorch at the leaf margins under heat stress. Mulch to 75mm out to the edge of the planting hole and stake only if the site is windy, removing ties after the first year.
Plant Details
Height: 10 to 14m
Width: 6 to 9m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Europe and western Asia (species)
Flower Colour: Green catkins, insignificant
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.







