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Nursery Direct
Florida Gardenia
Gardenia augusta ‘Florida’
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Supplied in 400mm
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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.
Florida Gardenia - Gardenia augusta ‘Florida’
‘Florida’ is the classic double flowered gardenia, the one grown for a perfume that carries across a courtyard on a warm evening. Gardenia augusta ‘Florida’ forms a neat, rounded shrub of glossy dark green leaves and produces thick, waxy white flowers that age to soft cream, mainly from late spring through summer with scattered flowers into autumn. It is not a plant for every site: it wants an acidic, well fed, well drained soil and morning sun, and it will tell you loudly through yellow leaves if it does not get them.
Why Florida Gardenia
Fragrance: The heavy sweet perfume is the reason it is planted, strongest in the evening and near warm walls.
Flower Form: Fully double, thick petalled white flowers with a waxy substance that lasts several days on the bush.
Compact Habit: A tidy rounded shrub that holds its shape without heavy pruning, suiting formal and informal beds alike.
Glossy Foliage: Deep green lustrous leaves look good year round between flushes.
Long Season: Main flush over summer with repeat flowering into autumn in warm districts.
Ideal Applications
Entry and Path Planting: Positioned where people brush past and catch the scent.
Low Informal Hedge: Planted in a run to edge a bed or line a path at knee to waist height.
Courtyard Containers: Grown in pots of acidic potting mix where soil chemistry can be controlled exactly.
Understorey Beneath Trees: Planted in the dappled shade of taller canopy where afternoon sun is filtered.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.6 to 0.8m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1 to 1.2m
Best Planting Season: Spring and autumn, avoiding frost periods
Soil & Drainage: Acidic, humus rich, free draining soil around pH 5.5 to 6.5, never limey or alkaline, and never soil that stays cold and wet
Establishment Care: Water two or three times a week through the first summer, keeping moisture even, since gardenias drop buds when they dry out or sit soggy. Mulch with composted pine bark, feed with an azalea and camellia fertiliser in spring and again after the main flush, and apply iron or magnesium if the leaves yellow between the veins.
Plant Details
Height: 1 to 1.5m
Width: 1 to 1.2m
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Morning sun with afternoon shade, full sun in cooler coastal gardens
Native to: The species is native to southern China, Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam
Flower Colour: White, ageing to cream
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.







