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Nursery Direct
Blue Lilly Pilly
Syzygium oleosum
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.
Send An EnquiryYou order. We do the rest.
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.
Blue Lilly Pilly - Syzygium oleosum
Among the lilly pillies, Syzygium oleosum is the one grown as much for its fruit as its foliage: rounded berries in a genuine blue to violet that hang in quantity through autumn and winter and are edible with a mild, slightly spicy flavour. The leaves are heavily marked with oil dots and release a eucalypt like scent when crushed, and new growth flushes pink to bronze. It makes a fast, dense screen with less of the pimple psyllid disfigurement that plagues some other lilly pilly species.
Why Blue Lilly Pilly
Fruit Colour: Blue to violet berries are unusual in Australian plants and persist well into the cool months.
Aromatic Leaves: Dense oil glands give the foliage a strong pleasant scent when crushed or clipped.
Screening Speed: It fills out quickly and holds foliage to the base, closing a boundary within a few seasons.
New Growth Flush: Fresh shoots emerge pink to coppery, giving repeated colour changes through the year.
Wildlife and Kitchen Use: Birds take the fruit heavily and it is also used in bush food jams and syrups.
Ideal Applications
Boundary screen: Planted in a row for fast, dense privacy along a fence line.
Clipped native hedge: Responds to shearing and can be held at any height from 2m upward.
Bush tucker garden: Grown alongside finger lime, davidson plum and midyim for edible native fruit.
Small shade tree: Left to grow with the crown lifted, it makes a neat rounded canopy tree.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.5m centres for a hedge, 2 to 2.5m for an informal screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m centres
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn in warm districts; spring in cooler coastal areas
Soil & Drainage: Moist, free draining, slightly acidic soil enriched with organic matter; tolerates improved clay
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly for the first two months, then weekly through the first summer, since consistent moisture is what builds hedge density. Mulch to 75mm clear of the stems and trim lightly two or three times in the first year to encourage low branching.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 12m unpruned; easily maintained at 2 to 4m
Width: 3 to 5m unpruned
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Coastal rainforest and moist forest of eastern Australia, from New South Wales to Queensland
Flower Colour: Fluffy white to cream
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.







