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Nursery Direct
Upright Japanese Plum Yew
Cephalotaxus harringtonia ‘Fastigiata’
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, 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 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.
Upright Japanese Plum Yew - Cephalotaxus harringtonia ‘Fastigiata’
This is the conifer to reach for where an English yew would fail. Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Fastigiata' grows as a stiff, narrow column of upright stems, each clothed in dark, glossy needles arranged radially around the shoot like a bottlebrush, and it does this happily in dry shade and in summer heat that yew cannot handle. The colour is a deep, almost black green that gives real visual weight to a shaded courtyard.
Why Upright Japanese Plum Yew
Shade Performance: One of the very few formal conifers that stays dense in part to full shade.
Columnar Habit: Grows upward with almost no outward spread, so it never crowds a narrow bed.
Heat Tolerance: Copes with Australian summer heat far better than the true yews it resembles.
Needle Texture: Long, soft tipped needles radiate around each stem for a distinctive bottlebrush look.
Low Maintenance: Slow, even growth means clipping once a year at most to keep the column tight.
Ideal Applications
Narrow Formal Hedge: Planted close it forms a dark green wall barely a metre deep.
Shaded Courtyard Accent: Holds colour and form where flowering plants sulk.
Vertical Punctuation: Used singly or in pairs to break up a low, horizontal planting.
Container Planting: Slow growth and a compact root system suit long term pot culture.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.6 to 0.8m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5 to 2m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring, avoiding midsummer
Soil & Drainage: Moist but freely draining, humus rich soil, with no tolerance for standing water
Establishment Care: Water weekly for the first two summers, and more often in dry shade beneath established trees where root competition is fierce. Mulch 75mm deep and clip lightly in late spring if a tighter column is wanted.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 3m
Width: 1 to 1.5m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Part shade to full shade, tolerating gentle morning sun
Native to: Japan and Korea
Flower Colour: 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.







