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Firecracker Metrosideros
Metrosideros ‘Firecracker’
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 45Ltypically 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.
Firecracker Metrosideros - Metrosideros ‘Firecracker’
A compact, evergreen shrub that delivers serious ornamental impact through vivid red blooms, dense structure and a tough constitution. Metrosideros ‘Firecracker’ holds up where softer flowering shrubs struggle, in windy sites, sea air and dry spells alike.
Why Firecracker Metrosideros
Vivid Seasonal Flowering: Intense red blooms provide a bold floral display with strong visual contrast against dark evergreen foliage.
Coastal and Wind Tolerance: Shares the genus's resistance to wind and salt-laden air, which suits it to gardens near the sea.
Drought Resilience: Once established, it rides out dry spells with only occasional deep watering.
Screening Between Flushes: The dense, evergreen habit keeps a screen solid and green while it is out of flower.
Fauna Value: Nectar-rich flowers draw honeyeaters and pollinators, adding ecological depth to designed landscapes.
Ideal Applications
Formal Hedging and Screening: Dense growth habit suits clipped or free-form boundary and privacy plantings.
Second-Row Coastal Planting: Suits seaside gardens a row back from the most exposed frontage, once hardier front-line planting has broken the wind.
Red Accent in Clipped Schemes: Left unclipped among formal green hedging, a single plant gives a block of red each time it flowers.
Windbreak Integration: Effective within layered shelter belts on exposed rural or coastal projects.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Spring or early autumn; spring only where frosts occur
Soil & Drainage: Most free-draining ground, from sandy coastal soil to well-structured clay, as long as water clears after rain
Establishment Care: Give a deep weekly soak through the first two growing seasons, more often in hot weather, and keep a mulch ring over the root zone. For a hedge, run the shears over it lightly once each flowering flush has dropped. In humid spells new shoots can pick up myrtle rust, so treat it at the first sign of yellow powdery spots.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 4m
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to partial shade
Native to: Garden cultivar of uncertain parentage (the genus is native to New Zealand and the Pacific islands)
Flower Colour: Red
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.







