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Oakville Highlight Sweet Gum
Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oakville Highlight’
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, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 150L about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m 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.
Oakville Highlight Sweet Gum - Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oakville Highlight’
Seedling liquidambars are a lottery for autumn colour, with some turning brilliant crimson and others going a muddy brown in the same street. ‘Oakville Highlight’ is an Australian nursery selection of Liquidambar styraciflua grown from cuttings so every tree colours the same way, and it holds a tidier, more upright pyramidal crown than the run of seedling stock. It is specified where a designer needs a row of deciduous trees that turn together rather than one at a time.
Why Oakville Highlight
Consistent Autumn Colour: Propagated vegetatively, so a whole avenue colours to the same orange and burgundy tones at the same time.
Upright Crown: A more uniform pyramidal shape than seedling liquidambars, which suits formal rows and narrower verges.
Leaf Shape: Glossy five-lobed star-shaped leaves give a clean, distinctive silhouette from spring through summer.
Summer Shade: Dense foliage delivers heavy shade over paving and lawn, then drops to let winter sun through.
Climate Range: Performs across temperate Australia, from Adelaide and Perth hills through to Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.
Ideal Applications
Deciduous Avenue: Matched trees along a driveway give a uniform autumn display rather than a patchwork.
Lawn Specimen: A single tree on an open lawn shows the pyramidal form and full colour change.
Seasonal Shading: Positioned to the north or west of a house it shades in summer and admits sun in winter.
Park and Estate Planting: Handles the scale of larger properties where a small ornamental would be lost.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 5 to 7m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8 to 12m
Best Planting Season: Late autumn through winter while dormant, or early spring
Soil & Drainage: Deep, moisture-retentive, slightly acidic to neutral soil with good drainage; avoid shallow alkaline soils, which cause yellowing
Establishment Care: Water deeply through the first three summers, as liquidambars will drop leaves early and colour poorly if they dry out in February. Mulch widely and site the tree well away from pipes, pools and paving, because the surface roots are vigorous and can lift slabs.
Plant Details
Height: To 15m or more in good soil, though smaller and slower than a seedling liquidambar
Width: 5 to 8m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Garden selection of a species native to eastern North America and Central America
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.
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.







