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Nursery Direct
Taiwan Cherry
Prunus campanulata
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.
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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.
Taiwan Cherry - Prunus campanulata
Most flowering cherries need a cold winter to perform, which rules them out for the majority of Australians. Prunus campanulata is the exception: a low chill species that flowers hard in Sydney, Perth and the Brisbane hinterland as well as it does in the highlands. The flowers are deep cerise bells hanging in tight clusters on bare wood in late winter, an altogether stronger colour than the pale pinks of the Japanese cherries, and the honeyeaters find them within days.
Why Taiwan Cherry
Low Chill Requirement: Flowers reliably in warm temperate and subtropical gardens where other cherries stay bare.
Flower Intensity: Deep cerise to magenta bells, pendulous and densely clustered along every twig.
Early Timing: Opens in late winter, usually weeks before other ornamental cherries and often before the last frosts.
Bird Value: Nectar rich flowers pull wattlebirds, honeyeaters and lorikeets into the garden.
Glossy Foliage: New leaves emerge bronze and mature to a clean glossy green, with bronze and orange tones in autumn.
Ideal Applications
Winter Feature Tree: Placed where it is seen from a living area during the months the garden is otherwise flat.
Small Garden Shade: Modest canopy that suits courtyards and townhouse blocks.
Bird Attracting Plantings: Combined with grevillea and correa for a sequence of winter nectar.
Street and Verge Planting: Manageable scale and upright vase shape for narrow nature strips.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 3 to 4m in a row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 6m for open crowns
Best Planting Season: Autumn or late winter, avoiding midsummer
Soil & Drainage: Free draining loam or sandy loam. Will not accept waterlogged ground, so raise the planting level on clay sites
Establishment Care: Deep soak twice weekly through the first summer, then weekly in the second, keeping the root zone mulched and free of turf competition. Prune only lightly and only straight after flowering, since cherries seal wounds poorly and are best cut in dry weather.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 8m
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Taiwan, southern Japan and southern China
Flower Colour: Deep cerise to magenta pink
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.







