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Cape Schanck Woolly Tea Tree
Leptospermum lanigerum ‘Cape Schanck’
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Supplied in 400mmtypically 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.
Cape Schanck Woolly Tea Tree - Leptospermum lanigerum ‘Cape Schanck’
Woolly Tea Tree takes its name from the fine silvery hairs that cover the young leaves and stems, giving the whole shrub a soft grey sheen that intensifies in wind and low sun. Leptospermum lanigerum is unusually accommodating for a tea tree, growing equally well in the damp peaty soils of a drainage line and in dry coastal sand once established, and this Cape Schanck form is raised from local Mornington Peninsula seed. In late spring it covers itself in small white flowers, and its dense low branching makes it a genuinely useful screening shrub as well as a habitat plant.
Why Woolly Tea Tree
Silver Grey Foliage: Fine hairy leaves give a soft, muted grey green tone that reads beautifully against darker natives and coastal stone.
Wet and Dry Tolerance: It handles seasonally waterlogged peaty ground and, once established, extended coastal dry, a combination few shrubs manage.
Late Spring Flowering: White five petalled flowers open densely along the stems through October to December.
Wind and Salt Resistance: Exposed Peninsula and Tasmanian coastal populations show its capacity to take salt laden wind.
Dense Low Branching: It furnishes from ground level, so it screens properly rather than lifting into a bare stemmed shrub.
Ideal Applications
Coastal Screening: A staggered row filters wind and blocks sightlines along an exposed boundary within three to four years.
Wet Area Revegetation: Suits swale edges, dam surrounds and seasonally damp corners on Peninsula and Gippsland properties.
Bird Habitat Thicket: Fine dense growth gives small birds nesting cover, and the flowers feed native bees heavily.
Silver Toned Mass Planting: Grouped in drifts it provides a soft grey mid layer between darker shrubs and open ground.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.2 to 2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3.5m
Best Planting Season: Autumn and winter in southern Australia, using the wet season for root establishment.
Soil & Drainage: Very adaptable across sands, loams, clays and peaty soils, acid to neutral. It accepts seasonal wetness and does not require sharp drainage, though it will not sit in permanent standing water.
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first summer, then reduce sharply, since established plants rarely need irrigation in southern Victoria. Mulch to 75mm, and tip prune lightly after flowering each year for the first few years to build density from the base rather than allowing it to run upward.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 5m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to light shade
Native to: South eastern Australia, including Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania
Flower Colour: 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.
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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
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
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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.







