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Exotica Weeping Fig
Ficus benjamina ‘Exotica’
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.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 200L about 3 to 4.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 1.2m of clear, level 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.
Exotica Weeping Fig - Ficus benjamina ‘Exotica’
‘Exotica’ is the weeping fig with slightly twisted, drawn-out leaf tips, giving a finer and more graceful canopy than the plain species. Ficus benjamina is used in Australian landscapes for one main reason: it clips into a dense, glossy, perfectly even green wall faster than almost anything else, and it holds that face in heat and humidity. It has to be sited honestly, because left alone it becomes a very large tree with an aggressive root system.
Why Exotica Weeping Fig
Screening Speed: Fast, dense growth closes a gap along a boundary in a single warm season.
Clipping Response: It reshoots from anywhere on the plant, so it takes formal hedging, pleaching and topiary equally well.
Leaf Quality: Small glossy leaves with pointed twisted tips give a fine, refined texture on a large plant.
Shade Tolerance: It performs in bright shade as well as full sun, which few fast screening plants do.
Root Vigour: The root system is strong and invasive, so keep it well away from pipes, paving, pool shells, footings and septic systems, or restrict it to a root-controlled planter.
Ideal Applications
Clipped Green Wall: Held at 2 to 4m it gives a formal evergreen screen along a fence line.
Pleached Hedge on Stems: Trained above a fence it screens upper-storey overlooking without losing ground-level space.
Large Planters: Root restriction in a substantial planter keeps it manageable in commercial and courtyard settings.
Large Shade Tree: Where there is genuine open space well away from services it makes a broad, handsome canopy tree.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1-1.5m for a clipped screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8-10m, and no closer than that to buildings or services
Best Planting Season: Spring through summer in warm soil
Soil & Drainage: Almost any reasonably drained soil, from sand to improved clay. It is not fussy, but it does want warmth and will not tolerate more than the lightest frost.
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly through the first summer to drive the fast early growth, then reduce as the canopy fills. Mulch to 75mm clear of the trunk, and begin light formative clipping in the first year so the screen builds density from the base rather than only at the top.
Plant Details
Height: Held at 2-4m as a clipped screen, 10-15m or more if grown as a free-standing tree
Width: 0.6-1m clipped, 6-10m as a tree
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to bright part shade
Native to: South and South East Asia through to northern Australia and the Pacific
Flower Colour: Insignificant, followed by small orange-red figs
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.







