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Oriental Pearl Indian Hawthorn
Rhaphiolepis indica ‘Oriental Pearl’
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Supplied in 500mm
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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.
Oriental Pearl Indian Hawthorn - Rhaphiolepis indica ‘Oriental Pearl’
A dense, naturally rounded evergreen that holds its own shape without constant shearing, Rhaphiolepis indica ‘Oriental Pearl’ carries clusters of white flowers from late winter into spring above leathery dark green foliage. Designers reach for it where a low hedge or a block of massed shrubs has to look tidy year round with minimal intervention, and where salt wind, reflected heat off paving or a long dry summer would thin out buxus or lilly pilly.
Why Oriental Pearl Indian Hawthorn
Self-shaping habit: It builds a tight dome of roughly equal height and width, so a run of plants reads as a hedge after one light tip prune rather than four cuts a year.
Cool season flowering: Pink-flushed buds open white through late winter and early spring, when most evergreen hedging plants offer nothing at all.
Coastal resilience: The thick waxy leaf surface shrugs off salt-laden wind, which makes it dependable on exposed beachside frontages.
Heat tolerance: Established plants handle hot western walls and reflected heat from driveways across most of southern and eastern Australia.
Foliage to the ground: Leaves are held right down to soil level, so a hedge does not go bare-legged at the base the way pittosporum often does.
Siting note: Birds spread the berries, so remove any seedlings that appear in areas near bushland.
Ideal Applications
Low front hedge: Planted in a line it forms a knee to waist high boundary that defines a garden without blocking the view from the street.
Mass planting: Blocks of five or more create a uniform evergreen carpet under established trees or across a difficult slope.
Path and driveway edging: Its predictable width means it will not creep over pavers and need constant cutting back.
Coastal courtyard: A reliable structural filler in beach house gardens where salt spray rules out softer-leaved shrubs.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.6 to 0.8m centres
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.2 to 1.5m
Best Planting Season: Autumn and spring are ideal; container grown stock can go in through summer and winter outside heatwaves and heavy frost.
Soil & Drainage: Adaptable to sand, loam or improved clay provided drainage is free. Avoid low spots that stay wet for days after rain, as root rot is its one real weakness.
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week for the first two months, then taper to a good soak weekly through the first summer. Keep a 75mm mulch layer over the root zone but off the stems, and hold off feeding until new growth is clearly underway.
Plant Details
Height: 1 to 1.5m
Width: 1 to 1.5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to light part shade; flowering thins in deep shade
Native to: Southern China and Japan (species)
Flower Colour: White, opening from pink-flushed buds
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.
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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
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- 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.







