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Nursery Direct
Japanese Black Pine
Pinus thunbergii
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.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
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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.
Japanese Black Pine - Pinus thunbergii
Pinus thunbergii is the pine of Japanese coastal plantings and of almost every serious garden that wants a windswept, characterful conifer. It grows with an irregular leaning trunk and heavy, layered branch plates, and it tolerates salt spray, sand and wind better than practically any other pine available in Australia. That combination is why it turns up on exposed coastal blocks from the Mornington Peninsula to the Central Coast, and why it remains the standard subject for cloud pruning and niwaki work.
Why Japanese Black Pine
Salt and wind tolerance: Copes with direct coastal exposure and sandy soils where most conifers brown off and thin out.
Silver spring candles: New shoots emerge as upright white candles in spring, a striking contrast against near-black foliage.
Fissured dark bark: The trunk plates into deep charcoal fissures with age, giving the tree its aged look far earlier than most pines.
Pruning response: Candle pinching and needle plucking give precise control over density, which is why it is the classic cloud-pruning subject.
Character over symmetry: Naturally irregular growth means each tree develops its own leaning, asymmetric line rather than a nursery cone.
Ideal Applications
Coastal gardens: One of the few conifers that will hold form in front-line salt wind on sandy soils.
Japanese garden feature: The traditional anchor tree beside a gate, pond or gravel court.
Cloud-pruned specimen: Trained over years into tiered pads for entries, courtyards and pool surrounds.
Informal windbreak: Planted in a loose line on exposed rural blocks to break salt-laden wind.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 3 to 4m for an informal windbreak line
Spacing (feature/avenue): 6 to 8m for full crown development
Best Planting Season: Autumn to early spring; coastal sites can also be planted through mild winters
Soil & Drainage: Sandy or gravelly free-draining soil preferred; tolerates poor and infertile ground but not heavy waterlogged clay
Establishment Care: Water deeply but infrequently through the first two summers to drive roots down rather than out. Stake only if the site is very exposed, remove ties within eighteen months, and keep mulch clear of the trunk collar.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 15m in Australian gardens, less on exposed coastal sites
Width: 4 to 8m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Coastal Japan and South 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.







