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Heaven Scent Magnolia
Magnolia ‘Heaven Scent’
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, 500mm 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.
Heaven Scent Magnolia - Magnolia ‘Heaven Scent’
‘Heaven Scent’ is one of the free flowering Gresham hybrids, and its defining quality is how young it starts performing: small plants carry flowers where many magnolias make you wait five years. Magnolia ‘Heaven Scent’ opens tall goblet shaped blooms on bare wood in early spring, rose pink on the outside with a deeper stripe up each tepal and pale within, and they are genuinely fragrant at close range. Its upright, narrow habit when young makes it one of the better magnolias for a confined garden.
Why Heaven Scent
Early Flowering Age: It blooms from a young plant rather than requiring years of growth first.
Goblet Form: Flowers hold a tall, upright chalice shape rather than opening flat, so the display lasts longer in wind and rain.
Genuine Fragrance: A soft sweet scent is detectable near the tree on still spring mornings.
Narrow Young Habit: Upright growth in its early years suits narrow beds, courtyards and side gardens.
Bare Wood Display: Flowering before the leaves emerge gives an uninterrupted mass of colour against the branch framework.
Ideal Applications
Courtyard Feature Tree: Its restrained width lets it work in a paved courtyard where a spreading magnolia would not fit.
Entry Statement: Positioned beside a front entry the spring flowering is seen at close range where the fragrance registers.
Mixed Border Backbone: Sits at the rear of a border giving early spring interest before perennials begin.
Cool Climate Garden: Suits Victoria, Tasmania, the Adelaide Hills, the Southern Highlands and other districts with reliable winter chill.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2.5 to 3m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m
Best Planting Season: Late autumn through winter while dormant.
Soil & Drainage: Deep, moisture retentive, humus rich soil that drains freely, slightly acid to neutral. It dislikes lime, compaction, root disturbance and drying out.
Establishment Care: Keep the root zone evenly moist through the first three summers, since magnolias have fleshy shallow roots that suffer quickly from drought. Mulch generously to 75mm and never cultivate or dig within the root plate, and choose a position sheltered from hot dry wind, which browns the open flowers within a day.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 8m
Width: 3 to 4m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun to part shade, sheltered from strong wind
Native to: A garden hybrid. Its parent species come from China
Flower Colour: Rose pink outside with a deeper stripe, paler within
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.







