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Nursery Direct
Weeping Lilly Pilly
Syzygium floribundum
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: 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 75L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 150L about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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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.
Weeping Lilly Pilly - Syzygium floribundum
Long sold under its old name Waterhousea, Syzygium floribundum hangs its long narrow leaves in curtains, with new growth flushing pink and copper before hardening to glossy dark green. It grows naturally along riverbanks in eastern Australia, so it accepts damp ground and periodic wet feet that would kill most screening plants. Critically for a lilly pilly, it is not disfigured by pimple psyllid, which is why it remains the default choice for tall clipped screens.
Why Weeping Lilly Pilly
Curtain Foliage: Long pendulous leaves hang in overlapping layers, giving a soft moving screen rather than a flat green wall.
Psyllid Resistance: Foliage stays clean where older lilly pilly types pucker and blister.
Wet Ground Tolerance: A riverbank species by origin, it handles heavy soils and seasonally damp positions.
Clips Hard: Responds to shearing with dense regrowth, so it can be held anywhere from 3m to 8m.
Coloured Flush: Each growth flush comes away pink to bronze, giving several colour changes a year.
Ideal Applications
Tall Boundary Screen: The standard solution for blocking a two storey overlooking neighbour on a narrow side boundary.
Clipped Formal Hedge: Holds a crisp face at 3 to 6m with two cuts a year.
Driveway Avenue: Left unpruned it makes a graceful weeping canopy tree along a long drive.
Creek Lines and Damp Ground: One of the few large evergreens that will thrive where drainage is imperfect.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 8m
Best Planting Season: Spring through to early autumn, avoiding the coldest weeks in frost-prone districts
Soil & Drainage: Adaptable across clay, loam and improved sand. It prefers moisture-retentive soil with reasonable drainage and tolerates short periods of saturation
Establishment Care: Water deeply two or three times a week for the first summer so the root plate drives down rather than sideways. Mulch to 75mm across the full planting row and hold off shearing until plants have made a season of free growth.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 15m unpruned in gardens, easily held lower by clipping
Width: 4 to 8m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Riverbanks and gullies of coastal NSW and Queensland
Flower Colour: Creamy white, in summer
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.







