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Nursery Direct
Green Island Fig
Ficus microcarpa ‘Green Island’
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.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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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.
Green Island Fig - Ficus microcarpa ‘Green Island’
‘Green Island’ is the fig grown for its leaf: thick, rounded, almost succulent and polished to a high gloss, held in tight overlapping layers on a naturally compact frame. Unlike the species, which becomes an enormous banyan, this selection of Ficus microcarpa stays shrub sized and grows at a measured pace, which is exactly why it has become the standard plant for clipped balls, low formal hedges and architectural pots in warm climate Australian gardens. It clips to a crisp edge and holds that edge for months.
Why Green Island Fig
Thick Glossy Leaves: Rounded, leathery, deep green leaves reflect light strongly and give a far bolder texture than box or lilly pilly.
Restrained Vigour: Growth is far slower and more contained than the species, so shaped forms hold their profile between trims.
Superb Clipping Response: It shears cleanly into balls, cubes, low hedges and standards, breaking evenly from old wood.
Heat and Humidity Tolerance: It performs where many formal hedging plants sulk, including subtropical Queensland and coastal New South Wales.
Container Suitability: One of the best figs for large pots and planters, tolerating a confined root run for years.
Ideal Applications
Clipped Ball or Topiary: Paired either side of an entry it delivers formal geometry with a subtropical leaf.
Low Formal Hedge: Planted in a tight row it forms a dense, glossy hedge held between 0.8m and 2m.
Feature Pot Planting: Excellent in oversized planters on terraces, courtyards and rooftops in frost free positions.
Poolside Structure: Its firm leaves and modest litter suit paved pool surrounds in warm climates.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.6 to 1m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5 to 2.5m
Best Planting Season: Spring through to early autumn, while soil is warm. Avoid planting into cold soil.
Soil & Drainage: Free draining, organically enriched soil that holds some moisture. It is frost sensitive, so choose a warm sheltered position, and although this cultivar is far less vigorous than the species it is still a fig, so keep it a sensible distance from drains, pipework and paving slabs.
Establishment Care: Water two to three times a week through the first summer and never allow a newly planted specimen to dry out completely, since figs drop leaf abruptly under water stress. Mulch to 50mm, feed with a controlled release fertiliser in spring and midsummer, and make the first formative trim only once new growth has extended well past the desired outline.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 4m unclipped, readily held at 1 to 2m
Width: 1.5 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: The parent species ranges from southern Asia through to northern Australia and the western Pacific
Flower Colour: Insignificant, enclosed within small 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.







