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Black Panda Japanese Black Pine
Pinus thunbergii ‘Black Panda’
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 70Ltypically 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.
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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.
Black Panda Japanese Black Pine - Pinus thunbergii ‘Black Panda’
Japanese black pine is the pine of the Japanese coastline and of classical bonsai and niwaki work: stiff dark green needles, a rugged fissured trunk, and irregular branching that never looks machine made. Pinus thunbergii is also one of the toughest conifers in cultivation, standing up to salt spray, sand and hard wind. ‘Black Panda’ is grown as a compact garden form, and like all black pines it answers directly to candle pruning, so the size and density are set by how it is handled rather than left to chance.
Why Black Panda Japanese Black Pine
Coastal Toughness: Salt laden wind and sandy soil are its native conditions, so exposed beachside gardens suit it exactly.
Spring Candles: New shoots stand up as silvery white candles against the very dark needles, a striking contrast for several weeks.
Pruning Control: Candle pruning in late spring controls both height and density, which is why the species is the classic subject for shaped pines.
Character Growth: Branching is irregular and the trunk fissures early, so even young plants look aged rather than nursery grown.
Drought Tolerance: Deep rooting and undemanding once established, needing no summer irrigation in most temperate districts.
Ideal Applications
Exposed Coastal Garden: One of the few sculptural evergreens that will hold form on a windy beachfront block.
Japanese Style Courtyard: The correct pine for a gravel, stone and moss composition.
Cloud Pruned Feature: Trained over several years into a niwaki form as a single dominant garden object.
Large Container: Tolerates root restriction well, which makes it a long term terrace or entry pot plant.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m in an informal windbreak row.
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m.
Best Planting Season: Autumn to early spring.
Soil & Drainage: Sharply drained sandy or gravelly soil. Poor and saline ground is fine, wet clay is not.
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first summer and then taper away entirely. Use a pine bark mulch kept clear of the trunk, and snap the spring candles back by half each year if you want to hold the plant tight and compact.
Plant Details
Height: 2.5 to 4m as a compact garden pine, and held lower with annual candle pruning
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen conifer
Light: Full sun
Native to: The species occurs on the coasts of Japan and Korea
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.







