{"product_id":"elaeocarpus-reticulatus-prima-donna","title":"Prima Donna Blueberry Ash - Elaeocarpus reticulatus ‘Prima Donna’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrice includes everything:\u003c\/strong\u003e the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePrima Donna Blueberry Ash - Elaeocarpus reticulatus ‘Prima Donna’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Prima Donna’ is the deep pink flowering selection of \u003cem\u003eElaeocarpus reticulatus\u003c\/em\u003e, an east coast rainforest-margin tree that has become one of the most-used narrow screening natives in Australian landscape design. The habit is naturally upright and layered rather than spreading, so a row of them fills a boundary vertically without eating into the garden. Fringed bell flowers hang along the branches in spring and early summer and are followed by hard blue-black berries that birds strip through autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eWhy Prima Donna Blueberry Ash\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFlower Colour\u003c\/strong\u003e: The bells are a clear deep pink rather than the white of the ordinary species, and they are held in profusion along the underside of each branch.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUpright Habit\u003c\/strong\u003e: A narrow, slightly columnar crown makes it usable in beds too tight for most screening trees.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlue Berries\u003c\/strong\u003e: Glossy blue drupes follow flowering and hold on the tree for months, feeding currawongs, koels and other fruit-eating birds.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNew Growth Colour\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fresh flushes emerge bronze to russet and scattered old leaves turn red before dropping, so there is colour beyond the flowering window.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShade Tolerance\u003c\/strong\u003e: Unlike most screening natives it performs in part shade, including the southern side of a house.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eIdeal Applications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNarrow boundary screen\u003c\/strong\u003e: Repeated at close spacing it blocks a two-storey neighbour without a wide planting bed.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCourtyard feature tree\u003c\/strong\u003e: Well behaved roots and a compact crown make it safe near paving and structures.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNative mixed border\u003c\/strong\u003e: Sits comfortably with lomandra, dianella and tree ferns in a subtropical or rainforest-style planting.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBird garden\u003c\/strong\u003e: Combines nectar in spring and fruit in autumn in a single plant.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecimen \u0026amp; Installation\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSpacing (screening\/hedge):\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 to 2m\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSpacing (feature\/avenue):\u003c\/strong\u003e 4 to 5m\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBest Planting Season:\u003c\/strong\u003e Spring and autumn, avoiding hard frost periods in cold districts\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSoil \u0026amp; Drainage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Moist, humus rich, free draining soil, slightly acid preferred, will sulk in dry compacted clay\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEstablishment Care:\u003c\/strong\u003e Water deeply twice weekly for the first summer and mulch to 75mm to keep the root zone cool and damp. 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