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Fastigiata Western Red Cedar
Thuja plicata ‘Fastigiata’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 50L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 70L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 500mm 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.
Fastigiata Western Red Cedar - Thuja plicata ‘Fastigiata’
Where the species opens into a broad forest conifer, this selection of Thuja plicata holds a tight upright column of flat, aromatic foliage sprays that stays narrow without constant clipping. It is the conifer to reach for when the screen has to be tall but the bed is only a metre or two deep, and it keeps green growth right down to ground level rather than going bare at the base like some columnar conifers. Cool, moist southern gardens suit it; it resents hot dry wind and reflected heat.
Why Fastigiata Western Red Cedar
Narrow Footprint: A mature column stays around 2 to 3m across, so height can be gained without surrendering garden width.
Clothed to the Ground: Foliage is retained low on the plant, which matters when the screen needs to block a fence line as well as a first-floor window.
Foliage Texture: Soft, flattened, scale-like sprays are glossy mid green above and paler beneath, and release a resinous scent when brushed.
Low Maintenance Shape: The habit is naturally fastigiate, so a light tidy-up rather than an annual hedge cut keeps it in order.
Cold Hardiness: Frost and snow in the tablelands and highlands are handled without damage.
Ideal Applications
Narrow boundary screen: Ideal along a side fence or easement where a spreading conifer would never fit.
Formal hedge: Planted close and lightly clipped it forms a solid green wall with a fine, even surface.
Entry framing: A matched pair either side of a gate or portico gives strong vertical structure year round.
Windbreak in cool districts: Several rows create shelter on exposed rural blocks in Victoria, Tasmania and the tablelands.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring, avoiding the heat of midsummer
Soil & Drainage: Moist but free draining loam with organic matter, slightly acid to neutral, will not tolerate waterlogging or hot compacted soil
Establishment Care: Consistent soil moisture for the first two years is the single biggest factor, so water deeply twice weekly through summer and never let the root ball dry out completely. Mulch generously to keep the root zone cool and shelter young plants from hot northerly and westerly wind.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 12m over time in Australian gardens
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade, sheltered from hot dry wind
Native to: A garden selection of a species from the Pacific Northwest of North America
Flower Colour: Insignificant
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
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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.







