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Vireya Rhododendron
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 400mm
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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.
Vireya Rhododendron
Vireyas are the tropical branch of the Rhododendron genus, from the mountains of New Guinea, Borneo and the Malay archipelago, and they behave nothing like the cold-climate rhododendrons most gardeners picture. Many grow as epiphytes on branches and mossy rock, so they demand air around their roots and repay it with waxy, trumpet-shaped flowers in hot oranges, reds, pinks, yellows and whites that appear in flushes right through the year rather than in one spring burst. For a frost-free garden with filtered light, nothing else flowers this often.
Why Vireya Rhododendron
Repeat Flowering: Flushes arrive several times a year instead of a single seasonal display.
Flower Substance: The blooms are thick and waxy, holding condition far longer than a typical rhododendron flower.
Warm Climate Suitability: These are the rhododendrons for subtropical and frost-free coastal gardens where the cold-climate types fail.
Compact Scale: Most garden forms stay between 1 and 2m, suiting courtyards and pots.
Root Requirements: They are epiphytic by nature, so they need a coarse, open, airy medium and will drown in ordinary garden soil.
Ideal Applications
Raised Beds: Lifting the root zone above grade in a coarse open mix is the single best way to grow them in the ground.
Containers and Verandah Pots: A pot gives exactly the drainage and air they want, and lets you move them out of harsh sun.
Filtered Shade Gardens: They thrive beneath high open canopy alongside ferns and bromeliads.
Frost-Free Coastal Courtyards: Mild maritime districts suit them, provided they are sheltered from salt-laden wind.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.8-1.2m when grouped
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5m
Best Planting Season: Spring or autumn, avoiding extreme heat
Soil & Drainage: Very open and coarse, based on composted bark, perlite and peat rather than soil, and acidic. Never add lime, and never plant into heavy clay at grade.
Establishment Care: Keep the mix evenly moist but never saturated, watering little and often rather than in heavy soaks, since the roots are shallow and fine. Mulch with coarse bark, feed sparingly with a low-phosphorus native or camellia fertiliser, and tip prune after each flowering flush to keep the plant bushy.
Plant Details
Height: 1-2m in cultivation, varying with the cultivar
Width: 0.8-1.5m
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Filtered light or morning sun, sheltered from hot afternoon sun
Native to: New Guinea, Borneo, Indonesia, the Philippines and tropical north Queensland
Flower Colour: Orange, red, pink, yellow, apricot or white, depending on cultivar
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.







