{"title":"Conifers and Cypress","description":"\u003cp\u003eConifers hold their shape and colour through every season, which is why they end up as the backbone of so many Australian gardens: the evergreen screen along a boundary, the pair of clipped columns at a driveway, the single dark shape that anchors a lawn. This collection runs to 38 lines, with the bulk of it across Cupressus, Thuja, Juniperus, Pinus, Picea, Podocarpus, Callitris and Araucaria. Buy from it if you want privacy that does not drop leaves in autumn, a formal vertical accent, or a long-lived specimen tree. Pot sizes run from 70mm tubes up to 2000L, so you can plant a hedge cheaply and wait a few seasons, or bring in advanced stock and have height on day one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe upright cypresses do most of the screening work. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-stricta\"\u003eItalian Cypress Stricta\u003c\/a\u003e is the narrow pencil form, dense and dark green, useful where you need height and have no room for width; the blue-grey selection is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-glauca\"\u003eCupressus sempervirens Glauca\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-nitschkes-needles\"\u003eNitschkes Needles\u003c\/a\u003e is a selection of the same species that carries juvenile needle-like foliage rather than flat scales, and holds a narrow column as it ages. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/juniperus-chinensis-spartan\"\u003eJuniperus chinensis Spartan\u003c\/a\u003e is broader at the base and copes with heat and dry soil, which makes it the safer pick on inland and western blocks. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/thuja-occidentalis-smaragd\"\u003eThuja occidentalis Smaragd\u003c\/a\u003e stays bright green through winter and suits a smaller yard where a cypress would outgrow the space. For a boundary hedge in a hurry, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cupressocyparis-leylandii-leighton-green\"\u003eLeyland Cypress Leighton Green\u003c\/a\u003e is the plain green form and Castlewellan Gold is the yellow-tipped one. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/podocarpus-elatus\"\u003eIllawarra Plum\u003c\/a\u003e is the soft-leaved native alternative, slower and better behaved than the cypresses, and it clips well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive them full sun and soil that drains. In heavy clay, lift the planting position 200mm to 300mm above the surrounding grade instead of digging down into it, and keep mulch clear of the trunk. Soak them properly every week or two through the first two summers while the roots spread. The Mediterranean and native species harden off to very little water after that, but the spruces, Thuja and the Leylands stay thirstier and will brown off in a long dry spell. Space a screening line at roughly 800mm to 1.2m depending on the form, and trim lightly twice a year instead of hard once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one thing that ruins these plants: conifers do not reshoot from bare brown wood. Cupressus, Thuja, Juniperus and Callitris carry live buds only in the green outer shell of foliage, so if you let a hedge run past the width you want and then cut back into old wood, that face stays brown for good. Nothing fills it in. Start trimming in the first or second year while you are still cutting green growth, and hold the hedge at the size you actually want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are weighing an evergreen wall against a screen of mixed shrubs, compare this range with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e. For a single tree with presence rather than a row, see \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/feature-trees\"\u003efeature trees\u003c\/a\u003e, and if you want an instant result, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/advanced-trees\"\u003eadvanced trees\u003c\/a\u003e carries the larger pot sizes. Every order ships farm-direct with flat $99 delivery across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, a $399 minimum order, and the 30-Day Healthy Plant Guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"pd-hub-guide\"\u003eNew to these plants? Read our guide: \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/conifers-for-screening-and-structure\"\u003eConifers for screening and structure\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"callitris-gracilis","title":"Slender Cypress Pine - Callitris gracilis","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnlike the imported conifers most people picture, cypress pines are homegrown, and Callitris gracilis is the slender one from the drier country of South Australia, western Victoria and southern New South Wales. It carries fine, scale like, aromatic evergreen foliage on a narrow upright frame, with small hard woody cones sitting along the branches. The overall colour is a soft grey green that suits a dry garden far better than a dark exotic pine does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is built for heat, poor sandy or limey soils and long dry spells. What it will not accept is waterlogging or life in a heavily irrigated lawn, and root disturbance around the base sets it back badly. Plant it once, water through the first summers, then leave it alone. Growth is unhurried, so treat it as long term structure rather than a quick screen, and give it room to develop its shape without competition. Available in a single 330mm size from one farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 330mm, priced from $16.95 to $149.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308523630961,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311685808497,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/Ok3Dyu87Jp7n_FIt-vI_c_DpcNDDDO.jpg?v=1787627336"},{"product_id":"callitris-preissii","title":"Rottnest Island Pine - Callitris preissii","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the limestone of Rottnest Island and the exposed coasts of Western Australia and South Australia, Callitris preissii grows into a broad, wind sculpted evergreen conifer with a dense crown of fine aromatic foliage. That exposure is exactly what it is good for. It handles salt laden wind, alkaline sandy soils and long dry periods, which rules out most conifers and a fair few natives as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheltered and well fed it makes a reasonably upright cone. Out on the front line it broadens, shortens and thickens, and looks better for it. Use it as a coastal windbreak, a screening block on an acreage, or a single specimen where a hardy evergreen with real texture is wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it drainage and full exposure and it asks for very little afterwards. Overwatering and heavy wet clay are the usual reasons one fails. Two sizes are stocked, 140mm and 400mm, so a shelter row can be planted from small stock or started with established plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 400mm, priced from $16.95 to $239.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308523925873,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308523958641,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/UND7LT4sWiDmcLpe7wB3z_KqoloSdL.jpg?v=1787627337"},{"product_id":"callitris-rhomboidea","title":"Port Jackson Pine - Callitris rhomboidea","description":"\u003cp\u003eCallitris rhomboidea holds a naturally dense, narrow, conical shape without any help, which is why it turns up in gardens well outside its natural range along the eastern and southern coasts. It is called Port Jackson pine in New South Wales and Oyster Bay pine in Tasmania. The foliage is fine, deep green, scale like and aromatic when brushed, and the small woody cones held along the branches have the angular form the species name refers to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLandscape use is straightforward: a narrow evergreen vertical for a driveway line, a tight screen against a fence where a spreading tree will not fit, or a clipped formal accent. It takes shearing well and can be held to shape for years. Drainage matters more than anything else, and heavy wet soil combined with constant irrigation is what kills established plants. This is an advanced 35 litre plant from one farm, so it goes in with presence rather than as something to wait on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 250mm up to 400mm, priced from $97.95 to $249.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308524089713,"sku":null,"price":97.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308524122481,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"35L","offer_id":64446145528177,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/2o3S2I0HTkvrnEbhwA3ON_BMFFVoJg.jpg?v=1787627336"},{"product_id":"carpinus-betulus-emerald-avenue-hornbeam","title":"European Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus Emerald Avenue","description":"\u003cp\u003eHornbeam and beech get mixed up on plans constantly. The quick test is the leaf: hornbeam is sharply toothed and deeply pleated along the veins, beech is smooth edged and wavy. The practical difference matters more, because Carpinus betulus tolerates clay, compaction and periods of wet feet that would finish a beech, which is why it does so much of the work in Australian urban planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerald Avenue is a selected form grown for uniformity, with a tidy upright oval crown and even branching, so a row of them actually matches. That is the reason to pay for a named clone over seedling hornbeam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is deciduous, dark green through summer, turning yellow and gold before dropping. Clipped as a hedge or pleached screen it holds much of that dead leaf through winter, giving you a coppery screen where you would otherwise have bare sticks. Bark is smooth grey over sinewy, fluted trunk muscling as it ages. Cool to temperate districts suit it; it is not a tree for the humid subtropics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 45L up to 100L, priced from $279.00 to $719.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308575895921,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64308575928689,"sku":null,"price":719.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/eslEiuDp9iQWc7ddM6FNK_Pcm6GV6y.jpg?v=1787627478"},{"product_id":"cupressocyparis-leightons-green","title":"Leyland Cypress - Cupressocyparis Leightons Green","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpace it further apart than the quick-screen instinct tells you to. Leighton Green is a Leyland cypress selection, a fast upright conifer with flat sprays of dark green foliage, and the mistake made with it over and over is planting at half-metre centres for cover in two years, then fighting the consequences for the next twenty. Left unmanaged it becomes a large forest-scale tree, not a hedge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandled properly it is one of the quickest routes to a tall, dense, formal screen. Start clipping while the plants are young and keep trimming into green growth every year, because bare interior wood will not reshoot once you cut back into it. That one rule decides whether the hedge stays repairable in ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wants open sun and soil that drains. In humid coastal districts keep the base clear of built-up mulch, avoid overhead watering, and watch for cypress canker, which shows as individual branches dying off with resin bleeding at the join. Supplied in 5lt pots, sized for screen planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64308710408561,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/g_tQwnmwZt22eDRgzi_3M_vv9F5LLV.jpg?v=1787627820"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-cashmeriana-silver-shadow","title":"Kashmir Cypress - Cupressus cashmeriana Silver Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong sprays of blue-grey foliage hang straight down off this conifer in flattened, drooping curtains, and that weeping habit is the whole reason Kashmir cypress is worth the trouble. Silver Shadow is a selection made for stronger silver tones in the new growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not a hedge and should never be treated as one. Grown as a single specimen with room on every side it develops a broad pyramidal outline with the branch tips falling away, and it looks best where the movement in the foliage can be seen against a plain wall or open sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung plants are the tender stage. Shelter them from cold drying wind and hard frost while they establish, keep drainage free, and avoid heavy wet clay entirely. After that it is straightforward. Evergreen, unhurried, and far better in a sheltered garden or courtyard than on an exposed ridge. Delivery is a flat $99 into QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA on orders of $399 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 330mm up to 400L, priced from $169.00 to $3969.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200L","offer_id":64308711096689,"sku":null,"price":1769.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400L","offer_id":64308711162225,"sku":null,"price":3969.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64308711194993,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"110L","offer_id":64308711227761,"sku":null,"price":889.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64308711260529,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"420mm","offer_id":64446146281841,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/1PrBwNmTUcaOego8lTMel_q2A4EPgq.jpg?v=1787627759"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-macrocarpa-greenstead-magnifica","title":"Monterey Cypress - Cupressus macrocarpa Greenstead Magnifica","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you know Monterey cypress as the big coastal windbreak tree, Greenstead Magnifica will not look like what you expect. It is a low, wide-spreading selection with soft feathery foliage in a bright fresh green, layering outward in flat tiers instead of building a leader. Planted on a bank or over the lip of a retaining wall it makes a broad textured mat you brush with a hand walking past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it where the spread is the asset: rockeries, slope planting, wide garden edges, and large planters where it can cascade over the rim. Give it full sun and genuinely free-draining soil. Heavy clay and still humid air are its weak points, and plants in those conditions tend to brown out in patches from the centre and never recover the shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrim lightly, and only into growth that still carries foliage. Available in 200mm, 250mm and 400mm pots across three of our farms, so larger stock is on hand where you want cover straight away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 200mm up to 400mm, priced from $56.95 to $549.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308711752049,"sku":null,"price":549.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308711784817,"sku":null,"price":56.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308711817585,"sku":null,"price":179.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/E9DU_XRoIfjOvElb2OWR5_clpuCKsQ.jpg?v=1787627758"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-semp-glauca","title":"Cypress - Cupressus semp Glauca","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew plants read as instantly on a landscape plan as the Italian pencil pine. This is the blue-grey form, holding a narrow columnar habit with dense foliage right down to the ground, and it gets used in rows along driveways, as punctuation either side of an entry, or in matched pairs in large pots for a formal Mediterranean line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wants full sun, air movement and soil that drains freely. Hot dry inland conditions suit it better than humid coastal ones, where cypress canker is the real threat and announces itself as individual branches browning off with resin weeping at the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical notes. Multi-leadered plants can splay open after heavy rain or wind, so tie leaders in loosely while young or select single-leader stock at planting. And avoid cutting back into old bare wood, which will not reshoot; a light annual tidy is all a healthy plant needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStocked in 5lt, 30lt and 90lt, with the larger grades giving useful height from day one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 5L up to 90L, priced from $29.95 to $519.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64308711981425,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30L","offer_id":64308712014193,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64308712046961,"sku":null,"price":519.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/5DOfAfyFamaQMFMoPXx_4_rVgSCZOB.jpg?v=1787627820"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-torulosa","title":"Bhutan Cypress - Cupressus torulosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn dry inland properties through western NSW and Victoria, Bhutan cypress is one of the standard shelter-belt conifers, and it has earned the position. It makes a broadly conical tree with soft, slightly drooping sprays of green foliage, fuller and less rigid in outline than the pencil pines, and it holds foliage low on the trunk when grown in the open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts strength is tolerance: heat, wind, frost and long dry spells once the roots are down, plus alkaline and rocky soils that trouble other conifers. What it does not enjoy is waterlogging or the constant humidity of the wet subtropics, where canker becomes a risk worth taking seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlan for a substantial tree rather than a hedge. Spacing matters if you want a solid screen without crowding later, and single-stemmed young plants are worth choosing, since forked leaders can split in storms years down the track.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable as advanced stock in 500mm and 420mm pots from two farms. Delivery is a flat $99 into QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA on orders from $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 500mm, at $719.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64308712210801,"sku":null,"price":719.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"420mm","offer_id":64446146314609,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/NopHd8_Yevu4xPGH5FnR5_DwbEus2m.jpg?v=1787627820"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-torulosa-arctic-green","title":"Bhutan Cypress - Cupressus torulosa Arctic Green","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo not confuse Arctic Green with an Italian pencil pine. Both give you a narrow upright conifer, but this Bhutan cypress selection carries softer, brighter green foliage, keeps a fuller base, and handles heat and dry inland conditions far better than the Mediterranean cypresses do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScreening is the usual job. Planted in a line it knits into a dense green wall without the bare-legged look older cypress hedges develop, and it takes a light trim to hold width. Used singly it makes a good vertical full stop at the end of a driveway or either side of an entry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wants full sun, air movement and soil that drains. Conifers in this group hate wet feet and will brown off from the inside if the root zone stays saturated, which is the usual cause of failure. Evergreen, and quick enough to be doing real work within a couple of seasons. Very large container stock is available here for immediate screening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 400L, priced from $16.95 to $7709.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400L","offer_id":64308712243569,"sku":null,"price":7709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64308712276337,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308712309105,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/wQiJC9mWcLZ6TJ7pTCC2G_0sr5zAtx.jpg?v=1787627820"},{"product_id":"juniperus-chinensis-spartan","title":"Chinese Juniper - Juniperus chinensis Spartan","description":"\u003cp\u003eA narrow conifer column normally means an ongoing maintenance contract. This one holds the shape on its own, with no frame, no annual shearing and no tying in, which is the whole argument for it and why it gets used as vertical punctuation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is dense dark green scale, furnished right down to the base, and it takes a light clip if you want the column tighter or want to work it into a spiral. Heat, dry spells, poor soil and coastal exposure are all handled once it has established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one thing it will not accept is wet feet. In heavy clay, in a low spot, or in a bed running on the same irrigation as the lawn, junipers brown out from the inside and do not recover well. Plant on a raised mound and sort the drainage first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSizes run from 140mm for long formal rows up to 1000L specimens. Delivery is a flat $99 across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, with a $399 minimum order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 16 sizes, from 140mm up to 1000L, priced from $16.95 to $5499.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309006008689,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1000L","offer_id":64309006041457,"sku":null,"price":899.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309006074225,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64309006106993,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64309006139761,"sku":null,"price":369.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"600mm","offer_id":64309006172529,"sku":null,"price":799.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64309006205297,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64309006238065,"sku":null,"price":609.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309006270833,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50L","offer_id":64309006336369,"sku":null,"price":379.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64309006369137,"sku":null,"price":1129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64309006401905,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500L","offer_id":64309006434673,"sku":null,"price":5499.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309006467441,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64309006500209,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64309006532977,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/PKhQvE3RyJ8B4DXG96Oj__gsBoIOjT.jpg?v=1787628344"},{"product_id":"picea-abies-norway-spruce","title":"Norway Spruce - Picea abies","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheck your winter climate before committing to a Norway spruce. It comes from the cold forests of northern and central Europe and wants cold winters, reliable soil moisture and summers that are not brutal, which makes it a reasonable proposition in the NSW tablelands, the Blue Mountains, Canberra, the Adelaide Hills and cooler parts of Victoria, and a poor one in humid coastal Queensland or hot dry inland gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the climate suits, it forms a dense, dark green evergreen conifer with a narrow conical outline and side branchlets that hang down from the main branches, a habit that separates it at a glance from the stiffer blue spruces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also the traditional Christmas tree. Held in a large pot with annual root pruning and kept outdoors in a cool, sheltered spot, it will do that job for years, provided it only comes inside for a short stretch. Available in 200mm, 300mm and 30L advanced. Flat $99 delivery to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, minimum order $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 200mm up to 400L, priced from $55.95 to $3969.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400L","offer_id":64309307703665,"sku":null,"price":3969.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64309307736433,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309307769201,"sku":null,"price":55.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309307801969,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30L","offer_id":64446149624177,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/qY5hWwib3fdeunAuQ4zGY_st4FgDyP.jpg?v=1787628747"},{"product_id":"picea-orientalis","title":"Oriental Spruce - Picea orientalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is not a spruce for a hot, humid coastal garden. Picea orientalis comes from the Caucasus and performs where winters are genuinely cold, which in Australia means the tablelands, the Adelaide Hills, the Victorian high country and similar districts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere it does suit, it is one of the better behaved conifers. The needles are the shortest of any spruce, only a few millimetres long, packed tightly along the shoots and a very dark glossy green, so the tree reads as a solid dark cone rather than a spiky one. Growth is slow and the form stays neat and narrow for years without pruning, which makes it useful as a lawn specimen or as a dark backdrop that lifts lighter foliage in front of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it moist, well-drained soil and shelter from dry westerly wind. Foliage scorches in prolonged heat and will not green up again quickly. Sizes run from 200mm to 750L where instant scale is needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 200mm up to 750L, priced from $55.95 to $7709.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"500L","offer_id":64309308588401,"sku":null,"price":7709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400L","offer_id":64309308621169,"sku":null,"price":7709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"750L","offer_id":64309308653937,"sku":null,"price":7709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309308686705,"sku":null,"price":55.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/vfVBk_bCLbyTmkvPWJAWn_1ylKVedU.jpg?v=1787628747"},{"product_id":"thuja-plicata-fastigiata","title":"Western Red Cedar - Thuja plicata Fastigiata","description":"\u003cp\u003eNever cut this one back into bare brown wood. Like most conifers in its group, western red cedar will not reshoot from wood carrying no green, and a hedge trimmed too hard stays scarred for good. Trim little and often, inside the green shell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFastigiata is the narrow upright form, holding flat fanned sprays of dark green scale foliage on a tight column, and crushed foliage gives off a sweet resinous, almost fruity smell that is nothing like a cypress. It belongs in cool and temperate gardens: Victoria, the southern tablelands, the Adelaide Hills, the cooler parts of the ranges. It is not a plant for hot dry exposure, where foliage bronzes and tips burn. Give it steady moisture and soil that drains, since sitting wet invites root rot. Some browning of interior foliage in autumn is normal shedding rather than disease. Stock runs 250mm up to 100L for taller instant screening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 250mm up to 100L, priced from $59.95 to $779.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64309509161329,"sku":null,"price":779.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64309509194097,"sku":null,"price":379.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64309509226865,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50L","offer_id":64309509259633,"sku":null,"price":399.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309509292401,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64309509325169,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309509357937,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64309509390705,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/9PDgiwU0c4pIj-8L6m64N_j78dxUHl.jpg?v=1787628947"},{"product_id":"juniperus-conferta","title":"Shore Juniper - Juniperus conferta","description":"\u003cp\u003eShore juniper comes off the coastal dunes of Japan and Korea, and it grows the way dune plants grow: flat and wide rather than up, laying down dense radiating sprays of bright green needle foliage that knit into a continuous mat. The distinguishing quality is how sharply prickly that mat is, which is both why it suppresses weeds so effectively and why you weed the bed early rather than reaching into it later. Use it on sandy banks, over rock terraces, and anywhere exposed ground needs binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSand, salt and airflow\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, poor sandy soil and salt wind are exactly its conditions, and it takes full coastal exposure without complaint. Space plants roughly 700mm to 1m apart across a bank and they will run together into cover; plant into the native soil rather than a rich imported mix, and mulch with gravel or coarse bark kept clear of the stems. Once established it needs very little water and almost no attention. On a steep bank it holds the surface well, which is the main reason it turns up on dune stabilisation jobs and difficult coastal batters. It also copes with the glare and reflected heat off rock and paving that burns off softer groundcovers, and it holds its green through winter rather than bronzing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is not drought or cold, it is wet feet combined with still humid air. In heavy clay or a poorly drained bed it browns out in patches from root rot, and through a humid summer the interior dies back where nothing ever dries out. Mound the bed or plant on a slope, keep irrigation modest, and give it airflow rather than a sheltered corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGreen, gold or soft-needled\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe direct alternative is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/juniperus-conferta-all-gold\"\u003eShore Juniper - Juniperus conferta All Gold\u003c\/a\u003e, which has the same low spreading habit with gold-cast new growth. Take the gold form as a colour break in a rockery or against dark foliage, and take the plain green species for large areas, because it is the more vigorous of the two and knits into even cover across a large bank sooner. If the planting is somewhere people brush past, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/juniperus-taxifolia-lutchuensis\"\u003eJuniperus taxifolia Lutchuensis\u003c\/a\u003e is the softer-needled option and drapes more gracefully over a wall edge, though it covers ground more slowly. All three sit in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/low-maintenance\"\u003elow maintenance\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrim the tips, never the brown wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShorten green shoot tips in spring to keep the mat inside its boundaries, and tidy again in early autumn if it has run over an edge. Cutting back into the bare brown wood inside the plant leaves a permanent hole, since junipers will not reshoot from it, so reduce a plant that has outgrown its space by removing whole stems back to a junction instead of shearing the surface. Feed lightly in early spring with a slow-release fertiliser and water it in. Wear thick gloves and long sleeves for any of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 125mm up to 300mm, priced from $16.95 to $88.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311333618033,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311333650801,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311333683569,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"125mm","offer_id":64311333716337,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311333749105,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd15-175-shore-juniper-juniperus-conferta_f690dafe-851a-4e7c-bdf0-a14ee63ea73e.png?v=1785551575"},{"product_id":"araucaria-bidwillii-bunya-pine","title":"Bunya Pine - Araucaria bidwillii","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne caveat comes before everything else with this tree, and it is not negotiable. A bunya cone can be the size of a football and heavy enough to injure someone, and it falls from a great height without warning. Never site one over a car park, a footpath, a play area or seating. Given a large open lawn where the drop zone can be closed off in season, it becomes a landmark tree of real presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe form is what draws people to it. A straight trunk carries a symmetrical dome of a crown, branches held in tiers, clothed in stiff, sharply pointed glossy dark green leaves arranged in flattened sprays. Young plants are geometric enough to keep in a large pot for years before they go in the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt comes from the Bunya Mountains and the ranges of south east Queensland, where the nut harvest has long been culturally important to Aboriginal people. Evergreen, long lived and eventually very large, so think parks, schools and acreage rather than a suburban block.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 200mm up to 100L, priced from $32.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311337419121,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311337517425,"sku":null,"price":389.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311337550193,"sku":null,"price":329.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311337648497,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311337681265,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311337714033,"sku":null,"price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64446155194737,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/vw3enTi-pQCxO4xgLD08W_a88Zktfy.jpg?v=1787629185"},{"product_id":"thuja-orientalis-aurea-nana-golden-biota","title":"Golden Biota - Thuja orientalis Aurea Nana (Platycladus orientalis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive golden biota full sun and it holds the gold. In shade it fades to a dull green and loses the tight shape that is the entire point of the plant. Now correctly named Platycladus orientalis, this dwarf conifer forms a neat egg shaped bun of flattened foliage sprays that stand on edge like vertical fans, a habit that separates it at a glance from the horizontal sprays of true Thuja.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowth is slow and controlled, which is why it turns up either side of front doors, in formal beds and in pots, often for decades. Two habits catch people out. In cold winters the foliage bronzes to olive or dull copper, which is normal and reverses in spring rather than signalling a dying plant. And it will not reshoot from bare old wood, so all shaping has to stay in the green outer growth. Watch for spider mite in hot dry positions, where the interior goes grey and dusty and the plant thins from the inside. Sizes run from 200mm through to 400mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 200mm up to 400mm, priced from $29.95 to $279.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311341875569,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311341908337,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311341941105,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/RYfrH7Y4XRa1u4ri9ZJJF_7R6aI4pq.jpg?v=1787629185"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-glauca","title":"Italian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Glauca","description":"\u003cp\u003eGlauca is the blue-grey Italian cypress. It holds a slim, dense column of scale foliage to ground level, on a footprint narrow enough for a driveway edge where a rounded tree could never sit, and it keeps a tighter, more reliably upright form than seedling-raised cypress. The colour is the reason to choose it: a soft blue-grey that reads cooler than the dark green forms and lifts against rendered walls. Use it in repetition, as entry pairs, a rhythm down a drive, or a slim screen along a boundary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSun, sharp drainage and clean cuts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun and sharp drainage, and no negotiation on either. It handles heat, reflected glare off gravel and long dry spells once established, and it resents wet clay, so mound the planting position on heavy ground and keep irrigation off the foliage. For a solid screen line, plant about 1m apart; where you want each column read separately, 1.5m to 2m gives them air. Water new plants deeply once a week through the first summer, then taper off. Keep the base clear of overhanging shrubs as well, because shaded lower foliage thins out and never fills back in. It is evergreen, so whatever effect you build holds through winter as well as summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is cypress canker. It shows as one branch browning off, then a whole flank, with resin bleeding from the stem at the base of the dead wood, and there is no cure once a tree has it. The fungus enters through wounds, so cut only in dry weather, keep line trimmers and mowers away from the trunk, disinfect shears between plants, and remove affected limbs well back into clean wood or take the tree out entirely before it seeds the row.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhich Italian cypress for which job\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll three cypress in this range give you the same narrow vertical, and the choice is about colour, stock size and uniformity. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-stricta\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Stricta\u003c\/a\u003e is the dark green classic and the economical way to plant a long run from smaller sizes. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-nitschkes-needles\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Nitschkes Needles\u003c\/a\u003e carries the most finely textured and consistent foliage, which matters most in a matched avenue. Glauca is the one to pick when you want blue-grey rather than green, and when the job calls for large advanced specimens that read as established the day they go in. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003ePrivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e has the wider range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLight trimming and low-nitrogen feeding\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrim in late spring or summer, in dry settled weather, and only into the green outer growth. Cypress will not reshoot from the bare brown interior, so shortening the tips to hold width is the whole job; there is no way back from cutting into old wood. Feed in early spring with a low-nitrogen slow-release fertiliser, because soft, forced growth is more susceptible to canker and splays open more readily. Mature columns can open at the top after storms and heavy rain, which a discreet wrap of wire or soft tie through the upper third prevents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 12 sizes, from 140mm up to 200L, priced from $16.95 to $1369.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"110L","offer_id":64311342465393,"sku":null,"price":1209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311342498161,"sku":null,"price":739.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311342530929,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311342629233,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311342662001,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311342694769,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311342760305,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311342793073,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311342825841,"sku":null,"price":64.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311342858609,"sku":null,"price":409.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311342891377,"sku":null,"price":1369.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64311342924145,"sku":null,"price":549.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"600L","offer_id":64446155948401,"sku":null,"price":26409.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"400L","offer_id":64446155981169,"sku":null,"price":9899.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"18L","offer_id":64446156013937,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"50L","offer_id":64446156046705,"sku":null,"price":429.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-mediterranean-cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-glauca_ffb462fe-6ae2-442f-ac5d-8c38b0ea185b.png?v=1785551599"},{"product_id":"pinus-pinea-stone-pine","title":"Stone Pine - Pinus pinea","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuy a stone pine for the silhouette, then be patient about it. The flat umbrella crown that defines this tree across Italy and Spain only arrives with age. Young plants are bushy, rounded and blue-grey in the needle, and they hold that juvenile look for years before the trunk clears and the head begins to flatten out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMature foliage darkens to deep green in stiff paired needles, and the heavy woody cones eventually carry the edible pine nuts, though not quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is an evergreen built for hard coastal ground. Sand, limestone, salt wind and long dry summers are all within its range once the roots are down, and full sun suits it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thing to plan for is width. An old stone pine spreads considerably broader than it stands, so it belongs in parks, on coastal blocks and in large gardens rather than tucked beside a house. Needle and cone litter underneath is constant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 140mm up to 100L, priced from $26.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311347216753,"sku":null,"price":42.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64311347249521,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311347282289,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311347315057,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311347347825,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311347413361,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12L","offer_id":64446156472689,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64446156505457,"sku":null,"price":409.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/91c2kP7_DOK0k4oxkXUkD_dsrS0osm.jpg?v=1787629186"},{"product_id":"podocarpus-elatus","title":"Illawarra Plum - Podocarpus elatus","description":"\u003cp\u003eIllawarra plum is a rainforest conifer from the coastal ranges of New South Wales and Queensland, dense and furnished to the ground in good light, with narrow leathery leaves so dark they look almost black behind the bronze-green new flush. The feature that sets it apart in this range is edible: female trees carry a swollen purple-black fruit stalk below the seed, sweet and resinous, long used in native food cooking. In a large garden it earns its place as a windbreak on an exposed boundary, a clipped screen along a fence line, or a feature specimen in a big pot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGrowing Illawarra plum on the east coast\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun to part shade, which is unusual among the conifers here and makes it the answer for a screen that has to run along a shaded fence or under high canopy. It takes humidity, coastal wind, heavy soil and root competition better than any cypress or thuja, needs little water once established, and holds its density in shade instead of thinning out from the bottom. For a hedge, space plants around 750mm to 1m apart depending on how fast you want the line to close, and prepare the whole trench rather than digging a row of individual holes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is frost on young stock. Nursery-grown plants come out soft, and a hard frost through the first winter or two burns the new growth and can kill the leader outright. In Canberra, on the tablelands or in a cold Victorian valley, either give it a sheltered aspect with overhead protection for the first couple of winters or choose something else. Established trees are considerably tougher than young ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIllawarra plum against the formal conifers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe obvious comparison is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/thuja-occidentalis-smaragd\"\u003eArborvitae - Thuja occidentalis smaragd\u003c\/a\u003e. Smaragd gives you a narrow self-shaping green cone with almost no work, but it wants cool air, full sun and a root zone that never dries out. Podocarpus is the humid-climate screen: it clips into a flat formal face, it will reshoot from older wood if you need to bring an overgrown hedge back into line, and it tolerates shade and salt. Take the thuja for a cool temperate accent pair, the podocarpus for a hedge that has to earn its keep on the east coast, or for a fruiting specimen in a native food garden. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003eHedges\u003c\/a\u003e holds the rest of the screening range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClipping and feeding a podocarpus hedge\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClip in the warmer months, from mid spring through to early autumn, so cuts callus over before cold weather arrives. Light shearing two or three times a season keeps a formal face; a neglected hedge can be cut well back into older wood and will push new shoots, which is a genuine advantage over the junipers and cypress in this range. Feed after each hard cut and again in early spring with a balanced slow-release fertiliser, water it in properly, and keep mulch topped up over the surface roots. Fruiting plants appreciate steadier moisture through summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 10 sizes, from 75mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $719.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311355015537,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75mm","offer_id":64311355048305,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311355081073,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311355113841,"sku":null,"price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311355146609,"sku":null,"price":719.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311355179377,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64311355212145,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64311355244913,"sku":null,"price":599.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311355277681,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311355310449,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-brown-pine-podocarpus-elatus-20260609_5f1baa1c-1408-403a-8afe-9ed1614aa2e0.png?v=1785551628"},{"product_id":"carpinus-betulus-fastigiata-upright-hornbeam","title":"Upright Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus Fastigiata","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe name suggests a permanent column, and that is not quite the story. Fastigiata hornbeam is genuinely narrow and egg-shaped while young, then broadens steadily with age into a solid oval crown. Plan for the mature width rather than the nursery shape, or the avenue you plant will close in on itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoliage is where the tree earns its keep. The leaves are neatly pleated along the veins, fresh green in spring, turning yellow through gold in autumn. On trees clipped as a hedge or pleached screen much of the tan foliage hangs on through winter, so the screen still does something in the cold months. The trunk develops a smooth, muscular grey fluting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt takes shearing better than beech and is the usual pick for formal hedges above head height through cooler parts of Victoria, the tablelands and the Adelaide Hills. It is not a warm humid climate tree. Give it a deep soil, keep water up over the first few summers, and it builds a dense frame quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 400mm up to Bare Root Regular, priced from $66.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311366156657,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Bare Root Regular","offer_id":64311366222193,"sku":null,"price":66.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311366254961,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311366287729,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/cU1zBeieYcKEcdSAf-S5J_cncstVRe.jpg?v=1787629276"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-stricta","title":"Italian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Stricta","description":"\u003cp\u003eStricta is the dark green Italian cypress everybody pictures: a narrow vertical mark, tapered at the base and the tip, carrying dense scale foliage the whole way down. Its distinguishing quality is how little ground it takes for the height it gives you, which is why it can line a driveway or sit against a wall where nothing rounded would fit. Use it as a repeated vertical through a Mediterranean-style garden, a formal accent at an entry, or a slim evergreen boundary marker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhy wet ground is fatal to Stricta\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, and drainage above all. This is a plant of dry rocky hillsides through the eastern Mediterranean, and it will sulk and then die in soil that stays wet, which is the one real failure mode and the reason most Australian cypress fail. Rich damp ground, a lawn irrigation zone and a clay hollow are all working against it. On heavy soil, mound the planting position well above the surrounding grade, backfill with the native soil rather than a bag of rich mix, and water at the base rather than over the foliage. Once established it wants very little from you: heat, dry summers, poor stony ground and reflected glare are all fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpace a screen about 1m to 1.2m apart for a continuous dark line, or set columns 2m and further apart where each silhouette is meant to be read on its own. Water new plants deeply but infrequently through the first summer and then step back, because an established cypress resents constant moisture far more than it resents neglect. Keep line trimmers and mowers off the trunk as well, since bark wounds are the main way canker gets into a tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStricta against the selected forms\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStricta is the baseline and comes in small pot sizes suited to volume planting, which makes it the practical choice when you are planting many and prepared to accept some variation between individual plants. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-nitschkes-needles\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Nitschkes Needles\u003c\/a\u003e is the one to take instead when the planting is a formal matched avenue, because the foliage is finer and every plant is consistent. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-glauca\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Glauca\u003c\/a\u003e swaps the dark green for blue-grey and comes in genuinely large advanced sizes. Pick Stricta for the classic dark Tuscan look, the other two for uniformity or colour. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003ePrivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e lists the alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrimming, tying and feeding\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCypress needs very little cutting. Shorten wayward tips in late spring or summer, always in dry settled weather, and stay in the green growth, because the brown interior wood will not reshoot and any hole you cut is there for good. In heavy rain and wind, mature columns can splay open at the top; a loose wrap of soft wire through the upper section holds them closed and is standard practice among growers. Feed in early spring with a low-nitrogen slow-release fertiliser, and avoid pushing soft growth with heavy feeding or constant water. Cut dead or browning limbs out back into clean wood as soon as they show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 140mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311375298929,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311375331697,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64311375364465,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311375397233,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd17-166-italian-cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-str_5ed2ddc9-b89c-4745-bbe0-605367af18b3.png?v=1785551680"},{"product_id":"thuja-occidentalis-smaragd","title":"Arborvitae - Thuja occidentalis smaragd","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmaragd holds a narrow, naturally tight cone without much help from the shears, built from flat vertical sprays of scale foliage that read softer and finer in the hand than any cypress. The characteristic that separates it from the rest of its species is winter colour: where most forms of Thuja occidentalis turn bronze or dull olive through the cold months, Smaragd stays bright green. Use it for slim boundary screens, matched pairs either side of an entry, and driveway sentries where a spreading hedge will not fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKeeping Smaragd green through an Australian summer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, free-draining soil and, above everything else, a root zone that never bakes. This is a cool temperate plant, at home in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, the tablelands and the cooler pockets of Perth, and much less convincing in the humid subtropics. Water is listed as low once established, and that is true of a settled plant in a well mulched bed, but establishment takes two full seasons of consistent moisture before you can step back from it. For a screen, space plants about 600mm to 800mm apart and let them knit into one face; for accent pairs, give each plant clear air on all sides so the cone stays even.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is a dry, hot root zone. Let the soil dry hard through a heat wave, particularly in a narrow bed against a north or west wall, and whole flanks of foliage brown off. Thuja will not push new growth out of that dead brown wood, so the scar stays for the life of the plant. Mulch deeply, water through heat events, and keep it out of still, dusty corners where spider mite builds quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSmaragd, Italian cypress and Illawarra plum\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-stricta\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Stricta\u003c\/a\u003e, the split is about water and climate. The cypress is the drier, hotter, more drought-hardy column and the one for a Mediterranean-style driveway; Smaragd is greener, softer in texture, smaller in scale and better suited to a garden with real winter cold and reliable moisture. It also sits lower, so it screens a fence line rather than towering over it. In a humid east coast garden where thuja tends to sulk, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/podocarpus-elatus\"\u003eIllawarra Plum - Podocarpus elatus\u003c\/a\u003e is the sounder evergreen screen, and it takes hard clipping back into older wood, which Smaragd never will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrimming into green growth only\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrim twice a year for a crisp face, once in spring after the first flush and again in early autumn, and cut only into green growth. Bare brown interior wood does not reshoot, so a plant allowed to run wide and then cut back hard carries a permanent hole where you cut. Light, regular work from the first season keeps it inside the width you intended. Feed in early spring with a slow-release fertiliser suited to conifers, go easy on nitrogen late in the season, and top up the mulch before summer to protect the shallow surface roots. More screening options in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 9 sizes, from 140mm up to 500mm, priced from $16.95 to $719.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311379263857,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64311379296625,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311379362161,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311379394929,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311379427697,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311379460465,"sku":null,"price":719.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311379493233,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311379526001,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311379591537,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-emerald-green-arborvitae-thuja-occidentalis-smaragd-20260611_818ffb1a-20c8-4c89-a7b7-b0af40a76616.png?v=1785551689"},{"product_id":"cupressocyparis-leylandii-castlewellan-gold","title":"Leyland Cypress - Cupressocyparis leylandii Castlewellan Gold (Cupressus x leylandii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpacing is where most Leyland cypress screens go wrong. Planted a metre apart because they look small in the pot, they crowd within a few years, shade each other out at the base and go bare down low. Give them room, or accept that you have signed up to clipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCastlewellan Gold is the golden form, with soft feathery foliage in yellow-gold at the tips ageing to green inside the plant. The colour holds brightest in full sun and greens off in shade. It is very fast and very dense, which is why it gets used for tall boundary screens, wind protection and formal clipped walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClip lightly and often, and always into green growth. Cut back into old brown wood and it will not reshoot, leaving a hole that stays. In humid summer districts watch for canker dieback on individual branches and remove affected wood promptly. Sizes run from 140mm through to 100L for an established screen line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 9 sizes, from 140mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311403086193,"sku":null,"price":61.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311403118961,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311403151729,"sku":null,"price":93.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311403184497,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm Squat","offer_id":64311403217265,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm Squat","offer_id":64311403250033,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311403282801,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311403315569,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64311403348337,"sku":null,"price":429.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/MeAmenI-dcXzGAVCtnQyG_rUGS3tkE.jpg?v=1787629357"},{"product_id":"araucaria-columnaris-cook-pine","title":"Cook Pine - Araucaria columnaris","description":"\u003cp\u003eCook pine grows as a narrow, almost telegraph-pole column, holding short branchlets tight against a straight trunk instead of spreading them into the wide tiers of its Norfolk Island relative. The characteristic that gives it away is the lean: mature trees tilt noticeably, and that tilt is a species trait rather than wind damage or a staking failure. It is a landmark tree for large coastal gardens, esplanade planting and resort landscapes, and it doubles as a tall windbreak on exposed sandy sites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCook pine needs a warm coast\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, free-draining sandy soil and salt-laden wind are the conditions it grew up with in New Caledonia, and it repays them. Along the Queensland coast, through the northern rivers of New South Wales and in warm frost-free pockets further south it settles in without fuss, asks little water once away, and shrugs off exposure that shreds other feature trees. Plant it high where the ground stays wet after rain. Give it space on every side as well: this is a long-term canopy tree that eventually clears everything near it, and mature specimens drop heavy cones and shed branchlet litter, so keep it away from pools, glass roofs, narrow footpaths and neighbouring rooflines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is climate. Cook pine is not cold hardy. Frost burns the growing tip, and cold wet winter soil kills young trees outright, which is why plantings in cold inland districts and southern hill country limp along for a few seasons and then fail. If your site gets regular frosts, this is the wrong araucaria for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCook pine or Norfolk Island pine\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlenty of Cook pines are bought and planted as \u003ca href=\"\/products\/araucaria-heterophylla-norfolk-island-pine\"\u003eNorfolk Island Pine - Araucaria heterophylla\u003c\/a\u003e, and the difference shows up years later. Heterophylla builds a broad, evenly tiered cone with soft incurved needles and stands dead upright; columnaris stays narrow, carries stiffer awl-shaped foliage that is darker and harder in texture, and leans. Take the Norfolk where you want the classic symmetrical beach silhouette and where winters run cooler. Take the Cook pine where the site is warm, the space is narrow and the tilt reads as character rather than a defect. For a slim evergreen vertical in a cold or dry inland garden neither is right, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-glauca\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Glauca\u003c\/a\u003e is the better call.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLeave the leader alone\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCook pine needs almost no pruning, and what it does get should never include the leader. Remove the top and the tree cannot replace it, because araucarias do not reshoot from bare wood, so you are left with a permanently disfigured crown. Take dead lower tiers off flush with the trunk once they brown, and do that work in the warmer months when wounds close quickly. Feed young trees in spring with a slow-release fertiliser, and on pure coastal sand include trace elements, since iron and manganese leach away fast and new growth pales without them. Browse more in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/feature-trees\"\u003efeature trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 100L up to 400L, priced from $709.00 to $3829.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311453614449,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400L","offer_id":64311453647217,"sku":null,"price":3829.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311453679985,"sku":null,"price":1209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30L","offer_id":64447045632369,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64447045665137,"sku":null,"price":479.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd15-055-cook-pine-araucaria-columnaris_f4e1d643-fd3c-4595-87c1-77be50412103.png?v=1787316314"},{"product_id":"araucaria-heterophylla-norfolk-island-pine","title":"Norfolk Island Pine - Araucaria heterophylla","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Norfolk Island pine builds even tiers of horizontal branches spaced up a dead straight trunk, each tier carrying short, soft, incurved needles. What sets it apart is that near-geometric regularity, held even in full beachfront exposure where salt wind shreds most other feature trees. It is a landmark plant: a single specimen on a large block, a repeated vertical along a foreshore, or a coastal windbreak line. Its natural home is Norfolk Island, and it has lined Australian beachfronts for well over a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGive a Norfolk light on every side\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, free-draining sandy soil and open air. It is drought hardy once away, takes salt and constant wind without flinching, and it does not want heavy frost or cold wet clay. Plant it where nothing will crowd it and where you can leave it alone for decades, because this is a long-lived tree that gets genuinely large, and it is worth thinking a few decades ahead before putting one in a suburban front yard. On pure sand near limestone, new growth can pale from a trace element shortage, so a spring application including iron and manganese pays off. Stake only until the roots take hold and then remove the ties, since a trunk left tied thickens unevenly around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is shade. Grown in the shadow of a building or crowded by neighbouring trees, the lower tiers thin out and the outline goes lopsided, and because araucarias do not reshoot from bare wood, that asymmetry is permanent. If you cannot give it clear light on every side for the whole of its life, plant something else in the gap and put the Norfolk where it has room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNorfolk or Cook pine\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese two are constantly confused, and the difference is easy to see once you know it. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/araucaria-columnaris-cook-pine\"\u003eCook Pine - Araucaria columnaris\u003c\/a\u003e is narrow and columnar, holds stiffer awl-shaped foliage tight to the trunk, and leans as a matter of course. The Norfolk is broader, softer in the needle, symmetrical and upright. Choose the Cook pine for warm tropical and subtropical coasts and tight spaces; choose the Norfolk where you want the classic tiered beach silhouette and where winters are cooler, since it is the more cold tolerant of the two. Neither is a small-garden tree, and both eventually shed heavy cones and branchlet litter that has to be raked off paths and out of gutters. Both are in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/feature-trees\"\u003efeature trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDo not top it, ever\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePruning is essentially limited to removing dead lower tiers, cut flush to the trunk in the warmer months so the wound closes cleanly. Never shorten the leader. The tree cannot generate a replacement, and a topped Norfolk stays disfigured or throws multiple weak competing tips that shed in storms. Feed young trees in spring with a slow-release fertiliser plus trace elements on sandy soil, and keep water up for the first two summers while the roots run. After that an established tree in the right position is close to self-sufficient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 11 sizes, from 300mm up to 2000L, priced from $99.95 to $8779.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311462691185,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311462756721,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2000L","offer_id":64311462789489,"sku":null,"price":3309.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311462822257,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"800L","offer_id":64311462855025,"sku":null,"price":8779.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311462887793,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311462920561,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"700L","offer_id":64311462953329,"sku":null,"price":7799.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311462986097,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311463018865,"sku":null,"price":1639.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"430mm","offer_id":64311463051633,"sku":null,"price":369.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300L","offer_id":64446168990065,"sku":null,"price":1659.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"30L","offer_id":64447045697905,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64447045730673,"sku":null,"price":479.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd17-232-norfolk-island-pine-araucaria-heterophylla_7d3f5cd3-bc26-4300-9c90-9514b74d8a16.png?v=1787316318"},{"product_id":"araucaria-cunninghamii-hoop-pine","title":"Hoop Pine - Araucaria cunninghamii","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore this goes in a suburban backyard, look at the old specimens in Brisbane parks. Hoop pine is a forest species that builds a tall straight column with a comparatively narrow crown, and it does not stop at fence height. On acreage, in a park or on a wide nature strip it becomes a landmark. On a small block it will outgrow the space and shade the neighbours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trunk gives it away. The bark forms horizontal bands right around it, like hoops on a barrel, and peels in rough papery strips. Branches come off in tiers with the foliage bunched into stiff tufts at the ends, so the silhouette is layered rather than solid. Juvenile leaves are sharply pointed and prickly to handle, softening as the tree matures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is an Australian conifer, native to rainforest margins in Queensland and northern New South Wales, and it takes heat, wind and coastal exposure once its roots are down. Evergreen. Small plants are slow enough to be kept in containers for years before they are planted out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 7 sizes, from 140mm up to 200L, priced from $32.95 to $899.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311466983793,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311467016561,"sku":null,"price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311467049329,"sku":null,"price":51.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311467082097,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311467114865,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311467147633,"sku":null,"price":899.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311467180401,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/t33slxQG_5tkw6vxBF6Hm_lBlqNQg6.jpg?v=1787629720"},{"product_id":"cupressocyparis-leylandii-leighton-green","title":"Leyland Cypress - Cupressocyparis leylandii Leighton Green (Cupressus x leylandii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe mistake that ruins Leyland cypress hedges is leaving them too long between trims. It will not reshoot from old brown wood, so once a face has run past the line you wanted, cutting back into bare stems leaves a hole that never closes. Start trimming in the first year, keep to two light passes a season, and always leave green growth on the cut face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandled that way it gives a fast, tall, dense screen on a scale most hedging plants cannot manage. Leighton Green is the clone grown across most Australian nurseries, with mid green flat sprays of foliage, a columnar habit and enough vigour to close a boundary gap quickly. It is used for shelter belts, tennis court surrounds, wind protection and long rural boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other issue is cypress canker, common in warm humid areas along the east coast and showing up as dead orange flagging branches and resin bleeding on the stems. Avoid pruning in wet weather, cut out and dispose of affected wood, and keep plants unstressed. Evergreen, and it needs more room than most people allow it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 10 sizes, from 70mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"75L","offer_id":64311481696625,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311481729393,"sku":null,"price":309.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311481762161,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70mm","offer_id":64311481794929,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311481827697,"sku":null,"price":20.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311481860465,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311481893233,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311481926001,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311481958769,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm Squat","offer_id":64311481991537,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/j9sr1k_ZfsTHbKPnJ4oka_xCt3mb8X.jpg?v=1787629793"},{"product_id":"carpinus-betulus-hornbeam","title":"Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus","description":"\u003cp\u003eHornbeam or European beech? They get specified interchangeably and they should not be. Check the leaf: hornbeam is sharply toothed along the margin and pleated between the veins, while beech is smooth edged and gently wavy. Then check the site, because hornbeam will take heavier, wetter ground and repeated clipping that beech resents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClipped hornbeam also does the trick people actually want from a deciduous hedge. Rather than standing bare all winter, it holds its dead leaves as a pale tan curtain until new growth pushes them off in spring, so a hedge or a pleached screen keeps working as a privacy layer through the cold months. The trunk is worth a look too, grey and fluted like twisted rope on older stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a cool climate tree. It performs in Canberra, the Southern Highlands, Victoria and the Adelaide Hills, and it sulks through humid subtropical summers. Container stock goes as large as 400L if you need an established screen from day one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 400mm up to 400L, priced from $209.00 to $1209.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311482646897,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400L","offer_id":64311482777969,"sku":null,"price":1209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64446171447665,"sku":null,"price":1419.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64446171480433,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/SJyikwP2U17SvnF6Yu4hM_oIFWfZ9n.jpg?v=1787629863"},{"product_id":"juniperus-taxifolia-lutchuensis","title":"Juniperus taxifolia Lutchuensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Ryukyu Island juniper grows outward rather than upward, spreading low and wide and draping willingly over an edge once it reaches one. The foliage is what marks it out among the junipers: fine, fresh green needles that look and feel softer than the sharply prickly shore junipers, in flat layered sprays. It is a plant for dry banks, rock terraces, gravel gardens and the top of a retaining wall, anywhere a tough evergreen mat has to hold ground that would be awkward to mow or plant conventionally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA dry bank suits it better than a garden bed\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, poor gravelly soil and coastal exposure are what it wants, and rich, damp, heavily composted beds are what it does not. Growth is slow to moderate, so set plants closer than you would for a fast groundcover, roughly 600mm to 800mm apart, and expect a couple of seasons before the layers overlap into cover. Plant it raised on heavy ground, mulch with grit or coarse bark rather than a soft blanket of compost packed against the stems, and water sparingly once it has taken. Watch for spider mite in hot still positions, where the foliage goes dull and dusty before it browns. It also works spilling out of a large pot or over the lip of a raised bed, where the layered growth shows to advantage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is over-clipping. Junipers do not reshoot from bare brown wood, so a plant that is sheared back hard after being left to run is left with a bald patch that never fills. Trim little and often into green growth from the start, or let it sprawl and cut whole stems out at the base where you need to reduce it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSofter texture than the shore junipers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe comparison to make is with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/juniperus-conferta\"\u003eShore Juniper - Juniperus conferta\u003c\/a\u003e. Conferta is denser, tougher underfoot and genuinely prickly, which makes it the better weed suppressant across a big sandy bank but an unpleasant thing to weed by hand. This juniper is the softer, finer, more refined option for a spot people brush past, a courtyard wall edge or a rockery seen close up. If you want colour rather than texture in the same low spreading habit, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/juniperus-conferta-all-gold\"\u003eShore Juniper - Juniperus conferta All Gold\u003c\/a\u003e carries gold new growth, though it needs strong light to hold it. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/low-maintenance\"\u003elow maintenance\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLight trimming, light feeding\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrim in spring as growth starts, and again lightly in early autumn if the edges have outrun their space, taking only green shoot tips. Cutting whole stems back to a junction inside the plant is better than shearing the surface, because it keeps the layered look instead of creating a flat clipped face. Feed once a year in early spring with a light application of slow-release fertiliser; heavy feeding produces soft floppy growth that opens the centre of the plant. Keep mulch pulled back off the stems where they meet the soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $18.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311484645745,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311484678513,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64311484711281,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd15-068-creeping-juniper-juniperus-taxifolia-lutch_2e830bb2-a9cf-43d8-9e56-916894eb5bcc.png?v=1785551998"},{"product_id":"juniperus-chinensis-keteleeri","title":"Chinese Juniper - Juniperus chinensis Keteleeri","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormal gardens in hot, dry inland towns lean on this juniper when they need a narrow green cone that will not sulk. Keteleeri holds a naturally conical, upright shape with very little intervention, in a bright mid green scale foliage that stays even in colour rather than dulling to bronze over winter the way some junipers do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also a heavy fruiter. Mature plants carry quantities of small grey blue berry like cones that show up well against the foliage and bring birds in, and they are the easiest way to tell this clone apart from the other upright Chinese junipers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTough on poor, stony and alkaline soils, untroubled by heat, wind, drought once established or urban pollution. What it will not tolerate is wet, heavy ground, where root rot ends it quickly. One firm rule applies to any juniper: never cut back into bare brown wood, because it will not reshoot from there. Shape it lightly and often, always staying within the green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 200mm up to 100L, priced from $32.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311486939505,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311486972273,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311487005041,"sku":null,"price":409.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64311487037809,"sku":null,"price":499.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311487070577,"sku":null,"price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311487103345,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/CnWdkFtVbXScx744JmHsp_re4iyQHb.jpg?v=1787629995"},{"product_id":"callitris-oblonga-nana","title":"Cypress Pine - Callitris oblonga nana","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot many Australian conifers are small enough to use the way you would use a clipped exotic, which is what makes this dwarf form of the pigmy cypress pine worth knowing. The species is a rare, restricted plant of river banks in Tasmania and a few mainland populations, and it carries dense, fine, aromatic foliage in flattened sprays on a tight upright frame, with small woody cones sitting close in against the branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a 330mm pot you are buying an advanced plant, so it can go straight in as a pair either side of steps, a tub specimen, or a native alternative to a low conifer hedge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun and drainage. It thins and goes lanky in shade, and like most cypress pines it does not reshoot reliably from old bare wood, so trim lightly and often rather than cutting hard once it has outgrown its spot. Do not confuse it with the taller Callitris rhomboidea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 330mm, at $149.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311496737137,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/OS5g5pG4LF1P0_AMS9VjF_gWHbKb9u.jpg?v=1787630065"},{"product_id":"thuja-orientalis-morganii","title":"Biota - Thuja orientalis morganii (Platycladus orientalis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you want a small conifer that changes colour through the year, this is the classic one. Sold for decades as biota and now correctly Platycladus orientalis, Morganii holds its foliage in flat vertical sprays that sit lime to gold through the warm months, then flush bronze, orange and plum as the cold sets in. Growth is slow and the habit is naturally neat and rounded, so it needs very little shaping to look tidy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it in a pot either side of a door, in a rockery, as low formal punctuation in a bed, or repeated along a path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colour depends on light, so a shaded position gives you a dull green plant with a thin, open interior. Give it full sun and free draining soil. The one hard rule with this group is not to cut back into old bare wood, because it will not reshoot from it. Reflected heat off western walls and paving can also scorch the foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 200mm, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311496802673,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/hpnTBzmkHzI7utDdj9nqF_u0ubmeg5.jpg?v=1787630065"},{"product_id":"cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-nitschkes-needles","title":"Italian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Nitschkes Needles","description":"\u003cp\u003eNitschkes Needles is a selected Italian cypress grown for uniformity, and that is the whole argument for it. The foliage is fine and densely packed on a narrow column, closer in appearance to needles than the coarser scale sprays of a seedling tree, and every plant in a batch behaves the same way. That matters in a row. This is the driveway sentinel and the avenue tree, the one to specify when six or twelve plants have to line up and still match each other in ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePlanting a matched avenue\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, free-draining soil and dry feet. Like all Italian cypress it comes from hot rocky Mediterranean country and it dies in ground that stays soggy, so raise the bed on clay and water at the roots rather than over the canopy. Set an avenue on a measured spacing, commonly 1.5m to 2m between plants where each column is read one at a time, and closer where the row has to knit into a solid screen. Use a string line, because uniform plants make any error in setting out obvious for the life of the planting. Buy a spare or two while you are at it and hold them in pots, since a gap in a matched row is the one thing you cannot replace convincingly later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode here is spider mite. Through a hot dry inland summer, particularly against a north-facing wall or in still air, mite bronzes the foliage from the inside out, and because the foliage is so fine and dense the damage is well advanced by the time you notice it. Hose the canopy down in heat waves and check the interior for dusty grey webbing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere the selected form beats a seedling\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet beside seedling-grown stock the difference shows in the row rather than in any single tree. Seedlings vary in width, density and how tightly they hold their form, so an avenue of them never quite lines up. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-stricta\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Stricta\u003c\/a\u003e is the right pick for informal groups, single accents or a long boundary line where small variations do not read, and it comes in smaller sizes for volume planting. Take Nitschkes Needles when the planting is formal and repeated. If the scheme wants blue-grey instead of dark green, or you need large advanced specimens, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/cypress-cupressus-sempervirens-glauca\"\u003eItalian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens Glauca\u003c\/a\u003e is the one to order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow little to cut\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selected form barely needs shaping, which is the point of buying one. Tip back stray shoots in late spring or summer to hold the outline, always in dry weather to limit canker risk, and never cut into the bare brown wood inside the column, because it will not reshoot and the hole is permanent. Feed in early spring with a low-nitrogen slow-release fertiliser and keep the mulch layer clear of the trunk. Tie the upper third loosely with soft wire if storms tend to open your columns. See more in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/feature-trees\"\u003efeature trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 140mm up to 100L, priced from $16.95 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311497032049,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311497064817,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311497097585,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311497130353,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311497163121,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-pencil-pine-cupressus-sempervirens-nitschkes-needles_be312e0b-6a5d-4ac6-ad39-c9f08fa9a38e.png?v=1785552073"},{"product_id":"juniperus-conferta-all-gold","title":"Shore Juniper - Juniperus conferta All Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll Gold keeps the low, wide-spreading dune habit of the shore junipers and adds colour to it: overlapping layers of prickly needle foliage carrying a clear yellow-gold cast on the new growth, deepening towards green in the older interior. The effect is a mat that reads as a pool of light rather than a block of dark evergreen. Use it as a colour break in a rockery, along the top of a retaining wall, through a gravel garden, or spilling over the edge of a raised coastal bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe gold only happens in full sun\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun is not a preference here, it is the whole point, and it is also the one real failure mode. Sited under a tree, on the shaded side of a fence or in a courtyard that gets a few hours of morning light, All Gold grows out green, thins in the middle and ends up an ordinary green juniper with none of the colour it was selected for. The colour is generated by light, so give it an open position with sun most of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond that it is straightforward. It takes salt wind, poor sandy soil and coastal exposure, and asks for very little water once established. Space plants around 700mm to 1m apart for cover. Growth is slow to moderate, so a bed takes two or three seasons to close over, and something short-lived planted between them while they fill is worth considering. Drainage still matters, as it does for every juniper: mound the bed or plant on a slope rather than in a hollow, keep irrigation modest, and hold mulch back off the stems so the crown stays dry. It is prickly, like the green form, so weed the ground thoroughly before planting rather than reaching in afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhen gold is worth it over green\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst \u003ca href=\"\/products\/juniperus-conferta\"\u003eShore Juniper - Juniperus conferta\u003c\/a\u003e, this is the slower and more decorative of the pair. The plain green species is more vigorous and the sensible choice for covering a large bank quickly or for erosion work where nobody is looking at colour. All Gold is for the visible position, used in smaller quantity, where it lifts dark foliage and grey stone around it. Used across a whole slope the gold can read as unnatural, so most gardens want a drift rather than a field. For soft green texture in the same spreading habit, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/juniperus-taxifolia-lutchuensis\"\u003eJuniperus taxifolia Lutchuensis\u003c\/a\u003e is the third option. See \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/low-maintenance\"\u003elow maintenance\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShaping without losing the colour\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShape it in spring by shortening green shoot tips only, which also encourages the new gold growth that carries the colour. Cut back into the bare brown wood inside the plant and it will not reshoot, leaving a permanent hole in the mat. Feed once in early spring, and keep the rate light and low in nitrogen, because a heavy feed pushes lush growth that runs greener and softer than the colour you bought. Top up gravel or coarse mulch around the plant rather than over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64311499227505,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311499260273,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311499293041,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-all-gold-juniper-juniperus-conferta-all-gold_954587e4-996a-402d-9717-d0e5ca767cf3.png?v=1785552087"},{"product_id":"juniperus-taxifolia","title":"Juniperus taxifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough this juniper is rarely offered in the Australian trade, it is worth knowing what sits behind the name. \u003cem\u003eJuniperus taxifolia\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Bonin Islands off Japan, and botanists have long linked it to the shore juniper of Japanese coastlines, so plants sold under it tend to share that coastal character: low, spreading, densely needled growth rather than an upright conifer outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is true needle foliage, held in whorls and sharp enough that you notice it while weeding, in a green that often picks up a bronze cast through cold weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreat it as you would any juniper. It wants gritty, freely drained ground and open sun, and it dies from root rot in heavy clay or under irrigation that never lets the soil dry out. In still, dry, sheltered positions watch for mite bronzing through the interior of the plant. Sold in 140mm, which establishes quickly when the ground is prepared properly rather than dug as a narrow hole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311500374385,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/qbMX1IynSVo8tW4Obc3vS_0nxKaQ4U.jpg?v=1787630134"},{"product_id":"pinus-brutia","title":"Turkish Pine - Pinus brutia","description":"\u003cp\u003eTurkish pine comes out of the eastern Mediterranean, from Turkey and the Aegean, and it behaves accordingly. Expect an evergreen conifer with an open, somewhat irregular crown that broadens with age, reddish-grey bark, and long needles held in pairs that give it a softer, greener look than the darker European pines. It is closely related to Aleppo pine and often mistaken for it in older plantings. In Australian gardens it earns its place as a windbreak, a rural driveway tree and a feature for large dry sites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLimestone, salt wind and the soil that kills it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull sun, low water once established and a moderate rate of growth make it a straightforward tree on the sites it likes. Poor sandy ground, limestone and alkaline soil are no obstacle, and it handles coastal exposure, heat and long dry summers of the kind that finish off softer conifers. Waterlogged clay is the failure mode, and it is not a slow decline. Roots sitting in ground that stays wet through winter rot, the needles go dull and then brown from the inside of the crown outward, and by the time it is obvious the tree cannot be saved. If your soil is heavy, plant on a raised mound or choose something else, and never plant it in a lawn area that gets regular irrigation. Size and litter rule it out of small gardens as well. Needle and cone drop is constant, the root plate spreads wide, and it wants room on all sides rather than a spot against a fence line. In a windbreak row, set the trees far enough apart that each keeps its lower limbs, because a crowded line loses its skirt and stops doing the job it was planted for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe evergreen alternatives, and where a pine wins\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/angophora-costata\"\u003eSydney Red Gum\u003c\/a\u003e covers similar ground as a large evergreen for acreage, but it wants sharp drainage in sandstone country rather than limestone, and it sheds bark and limbs rather than needles. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/celtis-australis\"\u003eNettle Tree\u003c\/a\u003e handles dry compacted sites too, though it is deciduous and gives no winter shelter at all. A pine is the pick when the job is a windbreak, because an evergreen conifer breaks wind year round and a bare deciduous crown does not. Take Turkish pine for exposed, alkaline, coastal or inland dry sites where shelter matters more than fine detail, take the angophora if the soil is sandy and acidic and you want a native, and take nettle tree where summer shade over a hard surface is the whole brief. See the rest of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/conifers\"\u003econifers\u003c\/a\u003e for tighter or smaller forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLower limbs, and why you never cut into bare wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePines do not reshoot from bare wood, so every cut is permanent. Remove lower limbs only if you need clearance, take them one whorl at a time over several years, and cut in late winter or early spring before the new candles extend. Never top a pine or shorten the leader, since the result is a permanently disfigured crown and weak replacement leaders. Feeding is rarely needed. On poor sand, a light application of complete fertiliser in spring helps a young tree through its first few years, after which it looks after itself. Rake the needle drop off paths if it is a nuisance, or leave it under the canopy as mulch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 45L, at $279.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? 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