Images may show mature specimens and are provided as a guide only. As plants are living products, the size, shape and appearance of the stock supplied may vary from the images shown.
Nursery Direct
Fastigiate Purple Leaf Plum
Prunus cerasifera ‘Nigra Fastigiata’
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.
Want to see the actual plant?
The photo shows this species, not the individual plant reserved for you. Send us an enquiry and we usually reply within 1 business day with photos of the actual stock available in the size you want.
Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 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
Looking for a larger size?
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.
Send An EnquiryYou order. We do the rest.
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.
Registered Australian business, ABN 33 683 675 603. Public liability certificates available on request.
Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Fastigiate Purple Leaf Plum - Prunus cerasifera ‘Nigra Fastigiata’
This is the purple leaf plum compressed into a column, holding all the dark foliage of the common form on a frame narrow enough for a side boundary. Prunus cerasifera ‘Nigra Fastigiata’ carries upright branches that stay close to the leader, so it delivers height and colour where a spreading tree would push into the neighbour's roofline. Landscape designers reach for it when a strip of ground three metres wide has to read as a tree line.
Why Fastigiate Purple Leaf Plum
Column Habit: Mature width stays around 2 to 3m even at full height, which removes the pruning battle that spreading trees create in tight blocks.
Season Long Colour: Leaves open deep burgundy and hold a dark plum tone right through summer instead of fading to bronze green.
Late Winter Blossom: Small pale pink flowers open on bare wood in late winter, ahead of almost every other ornamental in the garden.
Climate Range: It handles frost in the southern tablelands and heat in inland districts, which few coloured foliage trees manage.
Undemanding: Once established it needs no shaping beyond removing the occasional wayward branch.
Ideal Applications
Narrow Boundaries: A run along a side fence gives privacy above fence height without stealing garden width.
Driveway Sentries: Planted in pairs either side of an entry it frames the approach with dark vertical form.
Contrast Planting: Set behind silver or lime foliage it provides the dark backdrop those plantings need to register.
Courtyard Trees: The small footprint suits paved courtyards where a spreading canopy would overwhelm the space.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2.5m for a solid vertical screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Autumn to late winter during dormancy
Soil & Drainage: Adaptable to most garden soils including improved clay, provided water moves away and does not sit around the root ball
Establishment Care: Give two deep soakings a week through the first summer, reducing to fortnightly by the second year. Mulch to the width of the canopy and stake only for the first season, since a little movement builds trunk strength in a narrow tree.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 7m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun, which is essential for the darkest leaf colour
Native to: The species comes from south eastern Europe and western Asia
Flower Colour: Pale pink fading to blush white
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.







