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Nursery Direct
Golden Champaca (Pleached)
Michelia champaca
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 90L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 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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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Golden Champaca (Pleached) - Michelia champaca
Pleached means the tree has been grown on a clear single trunk with the branches above trained flat onto a frame, forming a rectangular green panel that sits above fence height. That is exactly the answer when a neighbour's upper storey overlooks a garden and a conventional hedge would need to be four metres tall and two metres deep to solve it. Michelia champaca brings something extra to the format: golden orange flowers through the warm months whose fragrance carries a long way on still evenings.
Why a Pleached Champaca
Screening above the fence: The clear trunk keeps the ground plane open while the trained panel blocks the view at height.
Narrow footprint: A pleached panel is kept only 400 to 600mm deep, so it fits garden beds far too narrow for a hedge.
Powerful fragrance: The golden orange blooms are intensely perfumed and carry through a garden in still warm air.
Glossy evergreen leaf: Large polished leaves hold a dense, uniform green face on the panel year round.
Warm climate reliability: It thrives in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and the frost free coastal strip where cool climate pleaching subjects fail.
Ideal Applications
Overlooking neighbours: A pleached row along a boundary blocks first floor sightlines without shading the garden beneath.
Narrow boundary beds: Where only half a metre of planting depth exists, the trained panel still delivers full screening.
Formal green wall: Repeated panels knit into a continuous elevated hedge with clear stems beneath.
Pool boundary: It screens at height while keeping the surround open, and the fragrance is at its best around evening use.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m centres so the trained panels knit into a continuous face
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3m where each pleached tree is to read as a separate element
Best Planting Season: Spring and early summer into warm soil in frost free districts
Soil & Drainage: Rich, moist, free draining and slightly acidic. It needs steady moisture and shelter from strong wind, and young plants are frost tender
Establishment Care: Water two to three times a week through the first two summers, as pleached trees carry a large canopy on a restricted root ball and stress quickly. Keep the supporting frame in place until the trained branches have thickened and self supported, mulch to 75mm clear of the trunk, and trim the panel two or three times a year to hold the face flat and the depth tight.
Plant Details
Height: 3.5 to 4.5m maintained as a pleached form, with a clear trunk of about 1.8 to 2m
Width: 1.5 to 2m per trained panel
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: India, southern China and South East Asia
Flower Colour: Golden orange to cream yellow, strongly fragrant
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.







