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Tinkerbelle Lilac
Syringa x microphylla ‘Bailbelle’
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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.
Tinkerbelle Lilac - Syringa x microphylla ‘Bailbelle’
Tinkerbelle is a dwarf lilac, and that changes what a lilac can be used for. Where the common lilac becomes a 4m thicket, ‘Bailbelle’ holds to around 1.5m with a neat rounded frame, so it can sit in a border, a courtyard or a large pot. Wine-red buds open to soft pink, strongly perfumed flowers in mid to late spring, and the smaller leaves of the Syringa microphylla group keep the plant looking tidier through summer than the coarse-leaved types.
Why Tinkerbelle Lilac
Dwarf Frame: A mature height near 1.5m puts lilac perfume within reach of small gardens and containers.
Bud to Bloom Contrast: Deep wine-red buds opening to pink give the flower panicle two tones at once.
Fragrance: The scent is true lilac and carries well on a still spring evening.
Tidy Foliage: Small neat leaves hold condition through summer better than the large-leaved common lilac.
Prune on Time: Next spring's buds form over summer, so cut spent flowers back immediately after blooming and never later.
Ideal Applications
Cottage Border: Slots into a mixed perennial planting without swamping its neighbours.
Low Informal Hedge: Repeated along a path it makes a fragrant seasonal edge.
Entry Containers: Compact enough for a pair of large pots either side of a cool-climate doorway.
Courtyard Feature: Delivers a classic spring flowering event in a very small footprint.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1-1.2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5-2m
Best Planting Season: Winter to early spring while dormant
Soil & Drainage: Well-drained, moderately fertile soil that is neutral to slightly alkaline. Lilacs dislike acidic and waterlogged ground, and they need real winter chill, so cool districts, tablelands, Victoria, Tasmania and the Adelaide Hills suit them best.
Establishment Care: Water weekly through the first two summers and mulch to 50mm, keeping it off the stems. Feed with a balanced fertiliser after flowering rather than in spring, and remove any suckers from the base each winter to hold the compact shape.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5-2m
Width: 1.2-1.5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun, with at least six hours of direct light for good flowering
Native to: Garden origin, from Chinese lilac parentage
Flower Colour: Wine-red buds opening to soft 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.
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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.







