Manuka

Leptospermum scoparium

Smothered in small white flowers each spring, and one of the fastest ways to get cover onto a bare, difficult site.

Sizes, same plant, different age. Mix as many as you like.

Ten or more of any one size drops to trade price automatically.

Tube 1 yr 25–40 cm now
2250 ready $6.90

140mm 2 yr 50–80 cm now
750 ready $17.90

200mm 3 yr 1–1.4 m now
210 ready $32.95

Flat $100 freight in Tasmania · free over $250 · free pick-up at the gate

Age: 1 yr
Height now: 25–40 cm
Container: Forestry tube
Mature height: 3 m
Mature width: 2 m
Position: Full sun
Habit: Evergreen
Growth rate: Fast
Origin: Australian native

Good for

Birds & bees Screening

What it's like

Manuka is a pioneer — it will colonise poor, disturbed, boggy or windswept ground and hold it while everything else establishes. Fine grey-green foliage, a haze of white flower in spring, and a very good bee plant. It's short-lived by tree standards, twenty or thirty years, by which time whatever you planted beside it has taken over.

Getting it established

Almost nothing required. Tip prune after flowering if you want it denser.

Potted stock travels upright in a purpose-built carton with the rootball wrapped. Bare-root trees are lifted the week they ship, roots packed in damp shavings. Either way, get it in the ground within a week of arrival.

You've got twelve months. If it was planted the way we suggested and it hasn't come away, send us a photo and we'll replace it on the next run.

Ten or more of one line gets trade pricing without an account. Tell us the site and we'll check the spacing with you before you order.

Goes with

Plant it with.

All plants

Local provenance

Tube 1 yr $8.90

140mm 2 yr $22.95

200mm 3 yr $42.95

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Eucalyptus pauciflora

From $8.90 Forestry tube · 1 yr 8 m tall

Tube 1 yr $5.40

140mm 2 yr $14.40

200mm 3 yr $25.95

Blackwood

Acacia melanoxylon

From $5.40 Forestry tube · 1 yr 15 m tall

Best seller

140mm 1 yr $13.90

150mm 2 yr $18.90

300mm 3 yr $45.95

Portuguese Laurel

Prunus lusitanica

From $13.90 140 mm pot · 1 yr 4 m tall

Fast screen

140mm 1 yr $12.40

150mm 2 yr $16.90

300mm 3 yr $40.95

Pittosporum 'Screenmaster'

Pittosporum eugenioides

From $12.40 140 mm pot · 1 yr 5 m tall