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Florida Gardenia (Ball)
Gardenia augusta ‘Florida’
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Supplied in 500mm
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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 (Ball) - Gardenia augusta ‘Florida’
‘Florida’ is the gardenia most Australians know by scent before they know it by name, carrying heavy double white flowers through the warm months over dark glossy evergreen leaves. Clipped as a ball, Gardenia augusta becomes a formal element that still flowers freely, which is unusual: most clipped shrubs trade their display for their shape. It belongs in sheltered, warm, part shaded positions where people walk past it and catch the perfume.
Why Florida Gardenia Balls
Fragrance: The scent is powerful and carries, which is the entire reason to plant it near a door or window.
Long Flowering: Repeat flushes of double white blooms through spring, summer and into autumn in warm districts.
Glossy Dark Foliage: The leaf surface holds a deep lacquered green year round and sets off the white flowers.
Formal but Soft: Takes clipping into a neat sphere without losing its capacity to flower.
Shade Adapted: Prefers filtered light, so it solves warm shaded beds where flowering options are limited.
Ideal Applications
Beside Doors and Windows: Positioned where the perfume enters the house on warm evenings.
Feature Pots in Courtyards: Suits large containers in warm sheltered paved spaces with morning sun.
Formal Shaded Beds: Repeated spheres bring geometry and flowering to part shaded garden rooms.
Path Edge Punctuation: Spaced along a walkway so the scent is met at close range.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.6 to 0.9m for a merged low hedge
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.2 to 1.5m as separate balls
Best Planting Season: Spring and early autumn, into warm soil
Soil & Drainage: Acidic, rich, moisture retentive but free draining soil. Alkaline or limey ground causes yellowing between the leaf veins and poor flowering.
Establishment Care: Keep moisture even through the first two summers, since drying out causes bud drop and the flush is lost. Mulch with composted bark, feed with an acidic or camellia and azalea fertiliser in spring and midsummer, and correct yellow foliage with iron and magnesium rather than more nitrogen.
Plant Details
Height: 0.6 to 1m as a maintained ball, to 1.5m unclipped
Width: Equal to height, held by clipping
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Morning sun with afternoon shade, or bright filtered light
Native to: Species native to southern China and Japan
Flower Colour: White, double, heavily fragrant, 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.







