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Osmaston Compact Japanese Red Pine
Pinus densiflora ‘Osmaston Compact’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m. 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.
Osmaston Compact Japanese Red Pine - Pinus densiflora ‘Osmaston Compact’
Pinus densiflora ‘Osmaston Compact’ is a slow, dense selection of the Japanese red pine that builds a broad, irregular mound of dark needles over a frame of cinnamon coloured bark. It is chosen where a conifer has to hold its scale for decades rather than outgrow the space in ten years, and where the bark colour matters as much as the foliage. In a garden of clipped hedges and hard geometry, it supplies the one deliberately irregular form.
Why Osmaston Compact Japanese Red Pine
Predictable size: It reaches 1.5 to 3m only over many years, so setback and sightline decisions made at planting still hold much later.
Bark character: The trunk and older limbs develop the flaking orange to rust bark that gives the species its name, best displayed with the lower branches lifted.
Needle density: Short internodes and slow extension growth produce a tight needle mass that reads as a solid form rather than an open conifer.
Drought hardiness once settled: Established plants on free-draining ground carry through dry summers without irrigation support.
Responds to shaping: Candle pinching in spring holds the silhouette exactly, which is why it suits Japanese influenced and courtyard gardens.
Ideal Applications
Japanese and gravel gardens: The mounded habit and exposed bark are the natural centrepiece of a raked gravel or stone composition.
Rockery and slope planting: Its tolerance of lean, sharply drained ground suits mounded rockeries where richer soil would spoil the habit.
Entry specimen: A single plant beside a doorway or gate gives year round structure at a scale that never blocks the approach.
Low informal screen: Set at 1.5 to 2m centres, a row builds a broken evergreen edge that filters a view without walling it off.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m for an informal low screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring; avoid planting into hot, dry soil
Soil & Drainage: Free-draining loam or sandy loam on the acid side of neutral; mound or raise the bed on clay sites
Establishment Care: Give a slow, thorough soak twice weekly for the first summer, then weekly through the second, tapering as roots move into surrounding soil. Keep a 70mm bark mulch ring around the plant and hold off high-nitrogen fertiliser, which pushes soft growth and loosens the habit.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5 to 3m over many years
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Japan, Korea and north-eastern China (species)
Flower Colour: Insignificant
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.







