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Starry Night Tea Tree
Leptospermum obovatum ‘Starry Night’
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.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 75L about 1.5 to 2.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm of clear 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
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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.
Starry Night Tea Tree - Leptospermum obovatum ‘Starry Night’
Starry Night is grown for its foliage at least as much as its flowers. A selection of the river tea tree Leptospermum obovatum, it holds deep bronze-purple leaves right through the year, darkening further as temperatures drop, then smothers itself in small white flowers through spring. It is the sensible choice where a dark-leaved hedge is wanted but Photinia or Loropetalum would sulk in a cold, wet winter or a seasonally damp soil.
Why Starry Night
Purple Foliage: Deep bronze-purple leaves give a hedge that reads almost black against pale walls and gravel.
Cold Intensifies Colour: Winter and frost deepen the purple rather than damaging it, so the colour peaks when gardens need it most.
Damp Ground Tolerance: Its parent species grows along river flats, so it copes with soils that stay wet through winter better than most tea trees.
Full To The Base: Naturally twiggy and dense, forming a solid low screen without staking or heavy pruning.
Spring Flowering: A heavy flush of small white flowers in spring pulls in native bees and hoverflies.
Ideal Applications
Contrast Hedge: Used as a dark clipped band it separates and lifts silver and lime-green planting around it.
Swale And Creek Line: Suits raingardens, swale batters and seasonally damp low points where drainage is imperfect.
Native Cottage Border: Works as the structural middle layer among westringia, correa and native daisies.
Low Windbreak: Planted in a double staggered row it filters wind across exposed courtyards and vegetable gardens.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.8 to 1.2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5 to 2m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring across temperate Australia
Soil & Drainage: More adaptable than most tea trees, accepting heavier and seasonally damp soils, though not permanent bog. Keep phosphorus low and avoid rich manures.
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly for the first six weeks, then weekly through the first summer. Tip prune lightly after flowering from year one and never cut back into bare old wood, because tea trees rarely reshoot from leafless stems.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 3m
Width: 1.5 to 2m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun, as foliage colour washes out in shade
Native to: Southeastern Australia. The species grows along watercourses in New South Wales and Victoria
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.
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.







