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Nursery Direct
White Feather Honeymyrtle
Melaleuca decora
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.
Supplied in 100Ltypically 2.5 to 3.5m tall on delivery
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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.
White Feather Honeymyrtle - Melaleuca decora
Melaleuca decora is the tough, papery barked native that solves the ground nobody else wants. It grows naturally on the heavy clay flats and seasonally wet woodlands of coastal New South Wales and southern Queensland, which means it copes with soil that floods in winter and bakes in summer. Fine bright green foliage, a slender upright to spreading habit and creamy white flower spikes in summer give it a lighter, more refined look than the broad leaved paperbarks.
Why White Feather Honeymyrtle
Wet and Dry Tolerance: It handles seasonal waterlogging and then extended dry once established, a combination very few trees manage.
Papery Bark: Pale layered bark peels in sheets and gives the trunk texture and light in a planting.
Fine Foliage: Small narrow leaves cast dappled rather than heavy shade, so underplanting still performs.
Summer Flowering: Creamy white brushes through late spring and summer, heavily worked by bees and honeyeaters.
Speed: Fast early growth means it does its screening job within a few seasons rather than a decade.
Ideal Applications
Wet Site Planting: Bioswales, detention basins and low corners of a block that hold water after rain.
Fast Screening: Planted in a run it fills quickly and can be tip pruned to hold density at the base.
Native Habitat Garden: Reliable nectar for local honeyeaters and native bees in the warmer months.
Street and Verge Planting: A modest canopy and non invasive habit make it suitable near infrastructure.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 6m
Best Planting Season: Autumn and spring in temperate districts, or the start of the wet season in the subtropics
Soil & Drainage: Extremely adaptable, from heavy clay to sand, acidic to slightly alkaline. It accepts poor drainage that would kill most trees, but grows faster in soil that drains
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first summer, then taper off, as this species becomes largely self sufficient once rooted. Mulch to 75mm clear of the trunk, use a low phosphorus native fertiliser only if growth is poor, and tip prune young plants to build branching low on the stem if screening is the goal.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 10m
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to light shade
Native to: Coastal and near coastal eastern Australia, from New South Wales into southern Queensland
Flower Colour: Creamy 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.







