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Oblonga Juniper (Topiary)
Juniperus chinensis ‘Oblonga’
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Supplied in 90Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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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.
Oblonga Juniper (Topiary) - Juniperus chinensis ‘Oblonga’
Supplied as a trained topiary, this Juniperus chinensis selection has been grown and clipped over several seasons into a defined shape and will hold it with two trims a year. Junipers make particularly good topiary in the Australian climate because they are dense, fine textured, aromatic and genuinely drought hardy, so a formal shape can be maintained on a hot exposed site without irrigation of the kind a buxus or a conifer hedge would demand. The foliage is a deep blue green that darkens rather than yellows through winter.
Why Oblonga Juniper Topiary
Trained Form: The plant arrives already shaped, so the formal effect is present from day one rather than in five years.
Clipping Response: Fine scale like foliage breaks readily after trimming and knits back into a solid surface.
Heat and Drought: Established junipers tolerate reflected heat off paving and long dry spells better than most clipped plants.
Frost Hardiness: Unbothered by hard frost, so the same shape works in Ballarat and in Bundaberg.
Aromatic Foliage: The resinous scent released by trimming is a small pleasure, and the foliage is rarely browsed by rabbits or possums.
Ideal Applications
Entry Pairs: A matched pair either side of a front door or gate, the simplest formal gesture there is.
Narrow Formal Bed: Repeated at even spacing along a path where a hedge would be too heavy.
Large Planters: Holds its shape in a pot far better than fast growing clipped alternatives.
Low Water Formal Garden: Delivers structure and symmetry in a garden designed around minimal irrigation.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.2m for a clipped row that eventually reads as continuous.
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m for individually read topiary.
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring, avoiding midsummer heat.
Soil & Drainage: Free draining, including poor sandy and alkaline soils. Wet feet are the one thing junipers will not survive.
Establishment Care: Water deeply once a week through the first summer and then only in extended dry spells. Feed with a slow release fertiliser in spring, and trim twice a year in late spring and late summer, always in dry weather so cut foliage seals quickly.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5 to 2.5m as maintained topiary. Left unclipped the plant would eventually exceed 4m.
Width: 0.8 to 1.2m as clipped
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Evergreen conifer
Light: Full sun
Native to: The species occurs in China, Mongolia and Japan
Flower Colour: Insignificant
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.
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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
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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.







