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Mornington Peninsula Swamp Paperbark
Melaleuca ericifolia
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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.
Mornington Peninsula Swamp Paperbark - Melaleuca ericifolia
Swamp Paperbark is the plant that holds the wet, brackish, wind exposed edges of the Peninsula together. Melaleuca ericifolia grows as a dense, suckering shrub or small tree with fine heath like leaves and soft cream bottlebrush flowers in spring, and it spreads by root suckers to form thickets, which is precisely the behaviour wanted in revegetation and boundary screening. Grown here from local provenance seed, it tolerates waterlogging, salt spray and coastal wind better than almost any other screening plant available in southern Victoria.
Why Swamp Paperbark
Waterlogging Tolerance: It grows in ground that is inundated for months, including brackish and saline wet soils.
Salt Wind Resistance: Front line coastal exposure does not defoliate it, which makes it a first choice for beach side boundaries.
Suckering Thicket Habit: Root suckers fill gaps and create a continuous dense mass, ideal for screening and habitat but worth siting away from small formal beds.
Fine Heath Foliage: Tiny crowded leaves give a soft, dark, finely textured surface that reads well as a hedge.
Spring Flowering: Cream bottlebrush spikes appear September to November and support bees, honeyeaters and native insects.
Ideal Applications
Coastal Boundary Screen: Planted in a row it makes a solid three to five metre windbreak in exposed seaside positions.
Wetland Revegetation: The standard species for restoring Peninsula swamp scrub, dam edges and saline seepage areas.
Bird Habitat Thicket: The dense suckering interior gives small bush birds cover that open plantings cannot.
Erosion and Salinity Control: Its root mass stabilises wet banks and tolerates the saline soils that defeat most trees.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Autumn and winter, so plants establish before summer wind and dry.
Soil & Drainage: Suits heavy clays, peats, sands and seasonally or permanently damp ground, including mildly saline soils. Good drainage is not required, and it also grows acceptably on ordinary garden soil.
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first summer on drier sites, and very little at all on naturally wet ground. Mulch to 75mm to suppress weed competition while plants knit together, and trim lightly after flowering if a tighter hedge line is wanted, since it responds well to shaping.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 8m
Width: 3 to 5m, spreading further by suckers
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Coastal and near coastal south eastern Australia, including Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales
Flower Colour: Cream to 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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How It Works
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We Supply
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We Install
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