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Nursery Direct
Baby Blue Mountain Gum
Eucalyptus pulverulenta ‘Baby Blue’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 430mm 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 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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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Baby Blue Mountain Gum - Eucalyptus pulverulenta ‘Baby Blue’
Almost nothing else in the eucalypt world holds silver-blue, round, stem-clasping juvenile leaves permanently, and that is the entire point of Eucalyptus pulverulenta ‘Baby Blue’. The leaves sit directly on the stem in opposite pairs, coated in a chalky bloom that reads pale grey from a distance, which is why the florist trade cuts it by the tonne. In the garden it is used as a colour tool: a metallic blue counterpoint to dark green hedging or hot toned flowering shrubs.
Why Baby Blue Mountain Gum
Retained juvenile foliage: The round silver leaves persist rather than converting to the long adult form, so the colour never disappears.
Cutting value: Stems last well in a vase and are harvested for arrangements, so pruning and picking are the same job.
Responds to coppicing: Cut hard to a low framework in late winter it reshoots vigorously and stays shrub sized with the brightest colour.
Dry tolerance: Once rooted it needs very little water, suiting unirrigated beds and rural entries.
Cold hardy: It comes from the New South Wales tablelands and takes solid frost without foliage damage.
Ideal Applications
Colour contrast planting: Set against dark foliage such as photinia or viburnum, the silver reads from the far end of a garden.
Cut foliage bed: Grown in a row and coppiced annually it produces a continuous supply of florist grade stems.
Informal screen: Left unpruned in a group it gives a fast, loose visual barrier on a rural boundary.
Dry gravel garden: The bloomed foliage suits Mediterranean style plantings with olives, lavender and westringia.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring
Soil & Drainage: Sharp drainage is essential. Sandy, gravelly or well structured loam suits it; heavy wet clay is the main cause of failure, so mound the planting position if drainage is doubtful.
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first summer only, then reduce sharply because excess water encourages soft, floppy growth. Mulch with gravel or coarse bark, avoid phosphorus rich fertiliser, and tip prune from year one to build a denser framework instead of a leggy single stem.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m unpruned, 2 to 3m if coppiced regularly
Width: 3 to 4m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun; colour and density suffer badly in shade
Native to: A restricted area of the central tablelands of New South Wales
Flower Colour: Creamy white, winter to early spring
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.
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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
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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.







