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Nursery Direct
Silver Date Palm
Phoenix sylvestris
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 45Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m 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.
Send An EnquiryYou order. We do the rest.
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.
Silver Date Palm - Phoenix sylvestris
The silver date palm is the one to specify when a project needs the presence of a Canary Island date without quite the bulk. Phoenix sylvestris carries a straighter, more slender trunk patterned with clean diamond-shaped leaf base scars, and its crown of arching fronds is a distinctly silvered blue-green rather than deep green. It is a proper dry-country palm from the Indian subcontinent, which makes it a strong performer in Perth, Adelaide and western Sydney where humidity is low and summers are punishing.
Why Silver Date Palm
Trunk Pattern: The diamond lattice of old leaf bases is one of the most decorative trunks of any palm, and it looks good lit at night.
Silvered Crown: Blue-grey fronds hold their colour through summer and read well against dark render or brickwork.
Drought and Heat: Deep rooted and genuinely dry tolerant once established, coping with hot inland summers.
Frost Tolerance: Established palms take light to moderate frost, roughly to -5C, which many tropical palms will not.
Handle With Care: The lower leaflets are modified into stiff, sharp spines at the frond base, so keep it well clear of paths, play areas and vehicle doors.
Ideal Applications
Driveway and Avenue Planting: Uniform trunks repeated along a drive give strong formal rhythm.
Resort and Civic Landscapes: Scale and durability suit large public and commercial spaces.
Open Lawn Specimen: A single palm on a broad lawn carries the space without needing supporting planting.
Dry Coastal Gardens: Tolerates sandy soil and salt-laden wind in exposed seaside positions.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4-5m for a grouped planting
Spacing (feature/avenue): 6-8m
Best Planting Season: Spring to early summer while soil is warming
Soil & Drainage: Adaptable, from sand to loam, provided drainage is reasonable. It handles poor and mildly alkaline soils and does not need rich ground.
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week through the first summer so the root system pushes down, then reduce to occasional deep soaks. Mulch out to the frond spread but never against the trunk, and feed with a palm-specific fertiliser in spring and mid summer to keep the crown full and the colour strong.
Plant Details
Height: 10-15m over many years
Width: 6-8m crown spread
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Flower Colour: Cream, on branched sprays, followed by small orange dates
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.







