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Baby Scarlet Flowering Gum
Corymbia ficifolia ‘Baby Scarlet’
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 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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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.
Baby Scarlet Flowering Gum - Corymbia ficifolia ‘Baby Scarlet’
Full sized Corymbia ficifolia can reach 10m and swamp a suburban garden, which is exactly the problem ‘Baby Scarlet’ solves. It is a grafted dwarf selection that holds around 3m, so the huge scarlet summer flower heads that make the species famous arrive at a scale a courtyard or front garden can carry. Grafting also matters horticulturally: the rootstock copes with humidity and heavier soils far better than seedling flowering gums do on the east coast.
Why Baby Scarlet
True dwarf habit: It stays around 2.5 to 3m rather than the 8 to 10m of a seedling flowering gum, so it fits real suburban blocks.
Grafted for reliability: The rootstock broadens its tolerance of east coast humidity and heavier soils, where ungrafted plants often fail.
Colour intensity: Dense scarlet flower heads are produced through summer, held above the canopy where they show.
Bird value: Nectar draws lorikeets, honeyeaters and native bees into the garden through the flowering flush.
Low water once settled: After establishment it needs very little supplementary irrigation in most Australian climates.
Ideal Applications
Native front garden: A single plant gives the summer colour hit that most native shrub plantings lack.
Under power lines and eaves: Its restrained mature height suits positions where a standard tree would need constant lopping.
Informal native screen: A staggered row builds a loose, bird friendly screen rather than a hard clipped face.
Large container: The compact root system tolerates a big pot on a sunny terrace with sharp drainage.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m centres for an informal row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3m as an individual specimen, clear of eaves and gutters
Best Planting Season: Autumn in warm districts, spring in cooler ones, avoiding cold wet soil
Soil & Drainage: Sharply drained, low phosphorus soil. Mound or raise the planting position in clay, because wet feet is the main killer
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first summer only, then cut back deliberately so the plant hardens off rather than staying soft. Use a coarse gravel or chunky bark mulch kept clear of the graft union, feed only with a native, low phosphorus fertiliser, and remove any shoots emerging below the graft immediately.
Plant Details
Height: 2.5 to 3m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Far south west Western Australia (the species)
Flower Colour: Scarlet red, mainly summer
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.







