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Rubens Photinia
Photinia glabra ‘Rubens’
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 500mmtypically 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.
Rubens Photinia - Photinia glabra ‘Rubens’
Every trim on this shrub is answered with a flush of lacquer red new growth, which is the reason it has been planted across Australian gardens for decades. Photinia glabra ‘Rubens’ is a smaller, finer leaved plant than the Fraser hybrids, so it holds a clipped face at chest to head height instead of racing away and going bare at the ankles. Landscapers choose it over the larger red tips when a hedge line has to stay in scale with a fence, a path or a single storey facade.
Why Rubens Photinia
Repeat Colour Flushes: Each pruning triggers another wave of bright red growth, so a hedge trimmed two or three times a year is seldom without colour.
Fine Texture: The leaf is smaller than that of the big red tip hybrids, which gives a tighter and more even clipped surface.
Breaks From Old Wood: It reshoots readily from bare stems, so a neglected or overgrown hedge can be renovated rather than replaced.
Broad Climate Range: Reliable from cool temperate districts through to warm coastal gardens, and it handles moderate frost once established.
Airflow Matters: Leaf spot shows up in humid summers on crowded plants, so honest spacing and an open base do more good than extra fertiliser.
Ideal Applications
Formal Clipped Hedge: Holds a crisp face at 1.2m to 2m with two or three cuts a year, timed so the red flush sits through the entertaining season.
Boundary Screen: Planted in a single row it fills a fence line to a useful density without the width of a larger screening shrub.
Colour Contrast in Mixed Beds: The red growth lifts plantings of green foliage such as viburnum, murraya and buxus without needing flowers.
Standards and Shaped Forms: Fine growth and quick response to shears suit ball heads, cones and clipped columns in courtyards.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.7m to 1m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5m to 2m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring in most districts, avoiding midsummer in hot inland areas
Soil & Drainage: Free draining, slightly acidic to neutral soil; mound or improve heavy clay so water never sits around the root ball
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week through the first summer rather than lightly every day, so roots follow the moisture down. Keep a 75mm mulch layer over the root zone but pulled back clear of the stems, and delay the first shaping cut until new growth shows the plant has taken.
Plant Details
Height: 3m to 4m untrimmed, easily held at 1.2m to 2m as a hedge
Width: 2m to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun for the strongest red, tolerates part shade
Native to: Species native to Japan, China and Thailand; the cultivar is of garden origin
Flower Colour: White, in small clusters through spring
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
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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.







