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Silverberry (Hedge)
Elaeagnus x ebbingei
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Supplied in 500mmtypically 2.5 to 3.5m 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.
Silverberry (Hedge) - Elaeagnus x ebbingei
Silverberry is the hedge you plant where other hedges have already failed. Elaeagnus x ebbingei carries leathery dark green leaves backed with a silver scaly underside, so the whole plant flickers between green and pewter as it moves. It handles salt laden coastal wind, poor sandy soil, alkaline ground, drought and frost, and it fixes its own nitrogen, which is why it establishes on sites where a conventional hedge would sit and sulk. In autumn it produces small cream flowers that are barely visible and remarkably strongly scented.
Why Silverberry
Two toned foliage: Dark green upper surfaces over silver undersides give the hedge a shifting metallic quality in wind.
Coastal resilience: Salt spray and constant sea wind cause no leaf burn, making it one of the best hedges for exposed foreshore sites.
Autumn fragrance: Small inconspicuous flowers release a powerful sweet scent through autumn evenings.
Nitrogen fixing: It improves its own soil and establishes readily on poor, infertile and sandy ground.
Dense to the base: It furnishes right down to ground level, so a hedge does not go bare underneath as it ages.
Ideal Applications
Coastal windbreak hedge: Planted along an exposed boundary it takes the force of salt wind off the rest of the garden.
Boundary privacy screen: Sheared twice a year it holds a clean formal face at 1.5 to 2.5m.
Difficult dry sites: Sandy, alkaline and low fertility ground where other hedges stall are well within its range.
Informal shrub mass: Left unclipped it forms a broad, arching evergreen mass in a large mixed border.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.8 to 1m centres for a solid clipped hedge, 1.2m for a looser screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m where individual shrubs are grown unclipped
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring. It establishes readily in most conditions short of hard frost
Soil & Drainage: Almost any free draining soil, including sand, gravel and alkaline ground. Only permanent waterlogging defeats it
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first summer to settle the roots, after which it is largely self sufficient in most Australian coastal climates. Mulch along the hedge line to 75mm, tip prune lightly in the first two seasons to build density low down, and remove any plain green or overly vigorous reverting shoots as soon as they appear.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 4m unpruned, readily held at 1.5 to 2.5m as a hedge
Width: 3 to 4m unpruned
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: A hybrid of garden origin, with parent species from Japan and east Asia
Flower Colour: Small cream flowers, visually 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
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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.







