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Nursery Direct
Silverberry (Ball)
Elaeagnus x ebbingei
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Supplied in 90L
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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.
Silverberry (Ball) - Elaeagnus x ebbingei
Clipped into a ball, Elaeagnus x ebbingei gives you a formal evergreen sphere that survives conditions which would strip a buxus or an English box to sticks. The leaves are leathery, dark green above and coated in fine silver scales beneath, so every breeze turns the ball from green to pewter. It is genuinely salt tolerant, wind hardy and drought tolerant once established, which makes it the practical choice for coastal and exposed formal work.
Why Silverberry
Two Toned Foliage: Dark green upper surfaces over silver undersides give the clipped form movement and depth rather than a flat green mass.
Coastal Hardiness: It shrugs off salt laden wind that burns most formal hedging plants.
Dense Response to Clipping: Cutting drives it to break from old wood, so the ball tightens rather than thins over the years.
Autumn Perfume: Small cream flowers in autumn are visually insignificant but intensely fragrant, carrying surprising distance.
Soil Tolerance: It fixes its own nitrogen and performs on poor, sandy and alkaline soils where other evergreens starve.
Ideal Applications
Repeated Ball Sequence: A run of matched balls along a path or driveway delivers formality without the fragility of clipped box.
Coastal Front Garden: Holds its shape and colour in exposed positions within sight of the water.
Large Planters: Suits substantial pots either side of an entry, and copes with the restricted root volume.
Hedge Punctuation: Used as full stops at the ends or corners of a low hedge run to break the horizontal line.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.2 to 1.5m for a repeated ball sequence
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 3m, or in matched pairs
Best Planting Season: Autumn and spring, though container grown plants transplant reliably at almost any time
Soil & Drainage: Almost any free draining soil, from coastal sand to improved clay, acidic through to alkaline. Avoid permanently wet ground
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly through the first summer to settle the root ball, after which it becomes notably drought tolerant. Mulch to 75mm clear of the stems, hold off heavy nitrogen feeding, and clip the ball two or three times through the growing season, cutting back any strong upright shoot as soon as it breaks the outline since these run away quickly if ignored.
Plant Details
Height: 1 to 1.4m as a maintained ball, 3 to 4m if left unclipped
Width: 1 to 1.4m as a maintained ball
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Garden hybrid, raised from Japanese parent species
Flower Colour: Creamy white, insignificant but strongly fragrant
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.







