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Nursery Direct
Water Gum
Tristaniopsis laurina ‘Halycon’
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 430mmtypically 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.
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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.
Water Gum - Tristaniopsis laurina ‘Halycon’
Water gum is the small east coast rainforest tree that has become one of the most widely used street and courtyard trees in Australia, and this is a selected form chosen for a tighter, more uniform crown. Tristaniopsis laurina grows naturally along creek banks, so it tolerates both wet feet and confined root space, and it carries smooth mottled bark that sheds to grey, cream and orange. Selected clones are specified over seedling stock because a row of them actually matches in shape and size.
Why Water Gum
Uniform crown: A vegetatively propagated selection gives consistency along an avenue that seedling water gums never deliver.
Mottled trunk: Bark sheds in patches to leave a smooth grey, cream and rust coloured trunk that improves with age.
Coloured new growth: Fresh foliage flushes bronze to coppery red before hardening to glossy dark green.
Summer flowers: Clusters of small bright yellow flowers appear over the canopy in summer.
Tolerant roots: Non aggressive roots and a tolerance of periodic wet make it safe near paving, drains and small courtyards.
Ideal Applications
Street and verge planting: A standard specification for narrow verges and footpath planting on the east coast.
Driveway avenue: Matched crowns and a clean trunk make a formal avenue in a domestic scale garden.
Rain garden and swale: Its creek bank origin means it copes with the wet and dry cycle of a bioretention bed.
Courtyard shade: A single tree gives useful shade over a small paved area without overwhelming it.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2.5 to 3m for a close planted screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 6m
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn in warm districts; avoid cold wet soil in the south
Soil & Drainage: Prefers moist, fertile, well drained soil but tolerates heavier ground and periodic inundation better than most small trees
Establishment Care: Water twice a week through the first two summers, since water gums are slow to start and sulk if allowed to dry out. Mulch generously, protect young trees from frost in cold districts, and prune only lightly to lift the crown as it grows.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 8m in most garden settings; the species can exceed this on ideal creek side sites
Width: 3 to 4m
Growth Rate: Moderate, slow in the first year or two
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Creek banks and gullies of coastal eastern Australia, from Queensland through New South Wales into eastern Victoria
Flower Colour: Bright yellow
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.







