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Nursery Direct
Moonah
Melaleuca lanceolata
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 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.
Moonah - Melaleuca lanceolata
The gnarled, wind sculpted Moonah is one of the defining trees of the southern Australian coast, and old specimens on the Mornington Peninsula are protected for good reason. Melaleuca lanceolata builds a dense dark green crown of fine leaves over a twisting trunk clad in soft grey papery bark, and it withstands salt spray, limestone soils, drought and relentless coastal wind. It is planted where nothing gentler will survive, and it grows into a character tree that improves for decades.
Why Moonah
Extreme Coastal Hardiness: It survives direct salt spray, sand blast and constant wind on front line coastal sites.
Limestone and Alkaline Soils: Unusually for an Australian native, it thrives on calcareous coastal soils and tolerates mild salinity.
Dense Dark Canopy: Fine crowded foliage forms a genuinely solid crown that blocks wind rather than filtering it.
Sculptural Trunk: With age the trunk becomes twisted and heavily textured with layered papery bark, giving strong character.
Summer Flowering: Creamy white bottlebrush spikes appear over summer into autumn and feed insects and honeyeaters.
Ideal Applications
Front Line Coastal Windbreak: The most reliable dense screen available for exposed beach side properties in southern Australia.
Character Specimen: An older tree with its twisted trunk exposed and skirt lifted becomes a genuine landscape feature.
Indigenous Coastal Planting: A core species of Peninsula moonah woodland and of coastal restoration in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
Dryland Shelterbelt: Handles alkaline, saline and drought prone inland sites where other shelter species fail.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 6m
Best Planting Season: Autumn and winter, using the cool season to establish roots before summer exposure.
Soil & Drainage: Very adaptable across coastal sands, limestone soils, clays and gravels, alkaline through to neutral. It prefers free draining ground but tolerates brief winter wetness and low fertility.
Establishment Care: Water fortnightly through the first two summers and then withdraw irrigation, since it is genuinely drought hardy once rooted. Mulch to 75mm clear of the trunk, and on very exposed coastal sites use a temporary windbreak for the first year so the young crown develops evenly rather than being shaped one sided from the outset.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 8m, occasionally to 10m with age
Width: 3 to 6m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Southern Australia, across Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and inland New South Wales
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.







