{"title":"Lilly Pilly","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty-nine lines sit in this range, and the naming is the first thing to get past. The same plant turns up under Syzygium, Acmena and Waterhousea depending on the farm that grew it, so the weeping lilly pilly sits here under two botanical names.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow the thirty-nine split\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve entries are titled Brush Cherry, all of them Syzygium australe. Twelve carry an Acmena name, eleven of those Acmena smithii and its cultivars. Six are the weeping Waterhousea floribunda, four listed as Weeping Lilly Pilly and two under the Syzygium floribunda name. Two more Acmenas are broad leaved hemilampra, a thick coarse leaf closer to a rainforest fig. The remaining seven include Riberry, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-francisii\"\u003eGiant Water Gum\u003c\/a\u003e, Syzygium tierneyanum and Cascade, which weeps from its Syzygium luehmannii parentage and clips to a softer face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eResistance and habit in the brush cherries\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eResilience, Backyard Bliss, Pinnacle and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-straight-and-narrow\"\u003eStraight and Narrow\u003c\/a\u003e were all selected against the psyllid that pits and puckers new growth. The last two hold a narrow upright column without constant clipping, Pinnacle in one 30L grade, Straight and Narrow across ten grades from 140mm. Hinterland Gold flushes buttery yellow instead of red and holds the tight shear line a formal face needs. The name appears twice on this page though, as do Big Red and Winter Lights, once under Brush Cherry and once under a Lilly Pilly heading that cross-references Acmena, on different size ladders. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-select\"\u003eSyzygium australe Select\u003c\/a\u003e is the straight grown species, and its own page says plainly that it is not one of the resistant selections, so expect some pimpling on new growth in humid weather. Fair trade on a sixty plant boundary run. Poor trade beside a front door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere the Acmenas sit\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcmena smithii Minor is the small leaved form, and short narrow leaves hide cut ends, so it does the work below eye level. Firescreen and Forest Flame carry the red flush. Sublime comes through lime and soft bronze, and sits better against render and grey paving. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-minor-allyn-magic\"\u003eAllyn Magic\u003c\/a\u003e mounds instead of climbing, so it edges a bed or holds a low clipped line and will never screen a boundary. Goodbye Neighbours is the tall narrow screener, supplied in a single advanced grade. Acmena also reshoots from older wood more reliably than the brush cherries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReading the size ladder\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo pot sizes carry further across the range than any other: 200mm and 300mm, each on 29 of the 39 lines. 140mm appears on 20 lines and starts 18 of them, and the advanced grades, 45L and 100L, sit on 21 each. Treat 300mm as a substantial plant, roughly fifteen litres of mix with a few years behind it. Past 200L the ladder belongs to eight lines: four of the six weeping entries, plus Riberry, Acmena hemilampra, Giant Water Gum and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-tierneyanum\"\u003eSyzygium tierneyanum\u003c\/a\u003e. Some ladders are deliberately short. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/weeping-lilly-pilly-waterhousea-floribunda-whisper\"\u003eWhisper\u003c\/a\u003e opens at 400mm because every grade of it is established stock, and the dwarf Allyn Magic stops at 300mm because low hedging gets bought by the dozen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOrdering, and the two that are trees\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree of the busiest lines here are seed grown rather than cloned: Syzygium australe Select, Acmena smithii Minor and the straight species weeping lilly pilly. Vigour and leaf size vary plant to plant. Nobody notices in an informal screen. In a formal run assembled from three orders months apart it shows as steps in texture no trimming evens out. Order the whole run in one go and lay it out along the line before planting. Giant Water Gum clips willingly while young and then becomes the rainforest tree it always was, roots into drains and all. Syzygium tierneyanum takes damp ground that would rot a brush cherry, but frost cuts young plants back and a cold inland garden will not hold it. For spacing, psyllid detail and fruit drop near paving, read \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-hemilampra-dwarf-hedgemaker","title":"Broad Leaved Lilly Pilly - Acmena hemilampra Dwarf Hedgemaker (Syzygium hemilamprum)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBecause psyllid pimpling ruins so many lilly pilly hedges, the Acmena side of the family gets specified constantly, and this is the broad leaved one. Where the common syzygiums carry small pointed leaves, hemilamprum has large, wide, glossy leaves with a leathery feel, and the new growth flushes pink to bronze before hardening to dark green. Fluffy white flowers are followed by white fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDwarf Hedgemaker is the compact selection, chosen to make a hedge without the constant cutting a full sized rainforest tree demands. It clips into a bold, coarse textured formal hedge or screen that suits subtropical and rainforest planting schemes far better than the fine leaved cultivars do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts origins are subtropical rainforest, so it wants moisture, organic soil and shelter. Young plants are frost tender and can be knocked about by cold inland winters, and it looks tired in dry, exposed, root competitive spots. Feed and mulch it and it responds quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivered to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA for a flat $99 on orders over $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 200mm up to 45L, priced from $30.95 to $259.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308232356209,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308232388977,"sku":null,"price":259.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/YqFweVTUIq2PnroGEGl1g_OkA7hpuo.jpg?v=1787627030"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-forest-flame","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii Forest Flame (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTip it lightly every few months and the colour cycle keeps running, which is where the name comes from. Each flush breaks bright red and holds that colour for weeks before hardening off to glossy dark green, so a clipped hedge spends most of the warm season two-toned. Left alone it still makes a dense upright screen that furnishes right down to ground level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe names on this one have shuffled about over the years, and Acmena smithii and Syzygium smithii refer to the same plant. What matters in the garden is that the smithii group is little troubled by the lilly pilly psyllid that pimples and distorts the leaves of other lilly pillies, so hedges stay clean without a spray program. Small cream flowers follow in the warmer months, then mauve-pink berries that the birds work through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun to part shade, moderate water. The red flush is stronger in sun; in heavy shade the growth is greener and looser. Stock runs from 140mm tubes for long hedge lines up to 160L plants where a screen is needed straight away.\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 160L, priced from $16.95 to $709.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"270mm","offer_id":64308232683889,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308232716657,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308232749425,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"160L","offer_id":64308232782193,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308232814961,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308232847729,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64308232880497,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308232913265,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308232946033,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/7aCDVbbUGfmOjUKWFNQPf_M08UMexD.jpg?v=1787627029"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-minor-allyn-magic","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii minor Allyn Magic (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is not the lilly pilly to reach for when you want a three metre screen. Allyn Magic is a dwarf selection of the small leaved Acmena, and it stays low and dense, mounding rather than climbing, which makes it a low clipped hedge, a bed edge or a mass planted groundcover rather than a boundary screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe appeal is the new growth. Fresh flushes come through bright red and bronze against small glossy green mature leaves, and because it flushes repeatedly through the warmer months you get that colour more than once a season. Light tip pruning after each flush thickens the plant and brings on the next one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing an Acmena rather than a Syzygium, it shrugs off the psyllid that leaves pimpled, distorted foliage all over the more susceptible lilly pillies. It does want moisture though. Let it dry out hard in a pot or a hot exposed bed and the lower foliage thins, then takes a long while to come back.\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 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308233634161,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308233666929,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64308233699697,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308233732465,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308233765233,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/wKtWpJv2EtsukPrUKCMRb_ehgw9x0R.jpg?v=1787627030"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-minor-cherry-surprise","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii minor Cherry Surprise (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpace these at roughly half the width you want the finished hedge to be and tip prune from the day they go in. Done that way Cherry Surprise knits into a solid face far faster than it will if you plant it wide apart and wait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a compact, small leaved Acmena, denser and more manageable than the full sized lilly pillies, and it carries two features worth having in a hedge: red toned new growth on every flush, and a heavy set of pink to cherry red berries following the small white flowers. Those berries do drop, so think twice about planting it directly over light coloured paving or a pool surround.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcmena foliage is not the psyllid magnet some Syzygium hedges are, which saves a lot of spraying. Keep water up through the first two summers and feed in spring and autumn. Available from small pots through to advanced 75L plants where an established hedge line is wanted from day one.\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 75L, priced from $16.95 to $459.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64308234125681,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308234158449,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308234191217,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308234223985,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308234256753,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308234289521,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64308234322289,"sku":null,"price":459.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308234355057,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311662870897,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/nx0n7VH2wJFs4CuICcVsL_fEXtkjzg.jpg?v=1787627029"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-purple-rain","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii Purple Rain (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorth separating from the dwarf Acmena selections it sits beside on the bench: Purple Rain is the full sized smithii, a genuine screening plant that will make a tall hedge or a small tree if you let it run, not a low mounding border shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name comes from the flush. New growth emerges purple bronze and the colour carries right down the plant as the canopy refreshes, then settles to glossy deep green. Creamy white flower clusters follow in the warmer months and set purple berries that birds work over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it where you need height and density: a boundary screen, a windbreak between houses, a clipped hedge at two metres and up. Being an Acmena it is far less bothered by psyllid than the equivalent Syzygium hedges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not drought hardy. On a hot western fence line with no irrigation it sheds lower foliage and goes thin at the base, which is exactly where a screen needs to be thickest.\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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64308234977649,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308235010417,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308235043185,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308235075953,"sku":null,"price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308235108721,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/wDWhUq2-tk4VL2rr7LKo_rtk9GQya.jpg?v=1787627029"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-green-machine","title":"Brush Cherry - Syzygium australe Green Machine (Eugenia australis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a side setback or a narrow strip against a fence, where a full sized lilly pilly would eventually push the boundary over, Green Machine is the sensible substitute. It is a compact form of the brush cherry with small leaves and short internodes, so it clips into a genuinely dense wall or a tight ball instead of going thin and woody through the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew growth flushes bronze to reddish before hardening off to deep green. It takes full sun through to part shade, wants moderate water, and moves at a moderate to fast rate once established. Trim after each growth flush rather than waiting for it to get away from you, and the hedge stays solid right down to the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo cautions. Syzygium australe selections are chosen for psyllid resistance, but nothing is immune in humid coastal gardens, so keep an eye on the new tips. And it sheds lower leaves if it dries out badly, which takes a full season to fill back in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 200mm up to 300mm, priced from $30.95 to $99.95 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309485011313,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309485044081,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/im3zcwONzGupBoAcXZUO7_Byq9mTgb.jpg?v=1787628876"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-up-and-away","title":"Brush Cherry - Syzygium australe Up and Away (Eugenia australis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrowers list Up and Away as a screening plant rather than a hedging plant, and that distinction is worth taking seriously. It is naturally upright and narrow, putting on height quickly while staying slim, which is what you want along a boundary where there is no room for a wide hedge but plenty of neighbour to block out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeft alone, that upward habit fills the top before the bottom. Tip prune the leaders while the plants are young to force branching low down, or you end up with a screen that starts above head height and bare shins underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoliage is evergreen and glossy, with the usual brush cherry sequence of fluffy cream flowers followed by pink edible berries that birds generally claim first. Full sun to part shade, moderate water, moderate to fast growth. Stock runs from 140mm through to 400mm, so a run can be planted at whatever head start the budget allows. Delivery is a flat $99 to 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 7 sizes, from 140mm up to 500mm, priced from $19.95 to $419.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64309487239537,"sku":null,"price":64.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64309487272305,"sku":null,"price":419.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309487305073,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309487337841,"sku":null,"price":219.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm Squat","offer_id":64309487370609,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309487403377,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309487436145,"sku":null,"price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/ecQIUOOl2XiY0IxOFFGW_a2JeWkaC.jpg?v=1787628947"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-floribunda","title":"Lilly Pilly - Syzygium floribunda (Acmena)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree names follow this plant around: Syzygium floribundum, Waterhousea floribunda, and the old catalogue habit of filing it with the Acmena group. Same plant, same job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are long and narrow, close to willow shaped, carried on weeping tips that ripple in the lightest wind, with bronze pink new growth flushing two or three times a year. Left alone on a creek flat it builds into a broad domed tree, which matters if you are buying it for screening: it needs clipping from early on to stay a hedge rather than becoming a row of trees. Unlike the small leafed Syzygium australe selections it is rarely disfigured by psyllid, so hedges stay clean without a spray programme. It does want moisture, and in dry, shallow or root bound soil it thins from the inside out. Small fruit and leaf fall steadily, so hold it back from pool copings. Sizes run 200mm through to 750L specimens.\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 750L, priced from $19.95 to $4759.00 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? 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Whatever name is on the tag, it is the weeping lilly pilly: long narrow leaves on pendulous branchlets, new growth flushing pink and copper, and a canopy dense enough that you cannot see daylight through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreen Avenue is the selection grown for uniformity down a row, which matters when every plant in a screen needs to match. It clips extremely well and is not troubled by the psyllid that pimples the foliage of some other lilly pillies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thing to plan for is size. Unclipped, this is a large tree with a hungry, shallow root system, so it belongs on a boundary line or a driveway rather than tucked beside a small courtyard slab. Water it hard through the first two summers. Offered here in 400mm and 45L advanced stock for an immediate screen.\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 45L, priced from $269.00 to $269.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309489271153,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64309489303921,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/41rpdXZ-1UcTnjDvRUWbJ_d8EToOYH.jpg?v=1787628877"},{"product_id":"weeping-lilly-pilly-waterhousea-floribunda-whisper","title":"Weeping Lilly Pilly - Waterhousea floribunda Whisper (Syzygium floribundum)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDry feet are the fastest way to ruin one of these. Whisper is a compact selection of the weeping lilly pilly, chosen for denser branching and smaller, finer leaves than the seedling form, and it holds foliage closer to the ground, which is what makes it work as a screen rather than a shade tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tips weep, so a row of it moves in the lightest breeze and reads far softer than a clipped wall of small leafed Syzygium. New growth flushes coppery pink before hardening to glossy green. Moderate growth means fewer clips a year, though it also means patience if you plant small. Keep water up through the first two summers and mulch properly; stressed plants thin from the inside and shed leaves well before they show any wilting. Psyllid is not the problem here that it is with some lilly pillies, so hedges stay clean. Available 400mm through to 150L for instant screening height.\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 150L, priced from $279.00 to $1319.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"50L","offer_id":64309545107825,"sku":null,"price":469.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309545140593,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64309545173361,"sku":null,"price":909.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150L","offer_id":64309545206129,"sku":null,"price":1319.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/Eweyx6nYf4z-6UXjCdzRI_ONndFvvo.jpg?v=1787628949"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-hemilampra","title":"Broad Leaved Lilly Pilly - Acmena hemilampra (Syzygium hemilamprum)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive this one more room than you would give a smithii lilly pilly, because everything about it works at a coarser scale. The leaves are broad, thick and glossy, closer to a rainforest fig, and each flush of new growth comes through bronze to soft pink before hardening off to dark green. On a tall screen the effect is lush and coarse textured rather than fine and tightly clipped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt comes from the coastal rainforests of northern NSW and Queensland, and it carries the Acmena resistance to psyllid, so you are not dealing with the pimpled, distorted foliage that plagues some Syzygium selections. Grown unclipped it makes a shade tree with a straight trunk. Kept clipped, it holds a heavy, dense wall of foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo things to plan for. It sets small white fruit that drops, so hold it back from pale paving and pool surrounds. And young plants are soft in frost, so in cooler inland areas give the first couple of winters some shelter.\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 1000L, priced from $16.95 to $2749.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"1000L","offer_id":64310054551921,"sku":null,"price":2749.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25L","offer_id":64310054584689,"sku":null,"price":179.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64310054617457,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64310054650225,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64310054715761,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64310054748529,"sku":null,"price":899.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64310054781297,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64310054814065,"sku":null,"price":93.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64310054846833,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"143mm","offer_id":64446152507761,"sku":null,"price":55.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/GBmV-B9a0dX0b1Xlu5pUI_nP4wGfJt.jpg?v=1787629101"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-firescreen","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii FIRESCREEN (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a hedge tipped a few times through the warm months, most of the season is spent carrying red over dark green rather than sitting flat and uniform. That comes down to the one trait it was selected out of Acmena smithii for: new growth that comes away bright red after every flush, and clipping is what triggers a flush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe habit is naturally dense low down, which is the part most people get wrong when choosing a screening plant. It furnishes to ground level and holds that once established, so a boundary hedge does not go bare and leggy at the base after a few years. Left unclipped it lifts well above fence height.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep the water up while it is establishing. Acmena will shed older leaves if it dries out hard, and a stressed hedge flushes weakly. Avoid shearing in the middle of a heatwave, because the tender new growth burns before it has a chance to harden off.\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 $1229.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64310054977905,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64310055043441,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64310055108977,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64310055141745,"sku":null,"price":259.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64310055174513,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64310055207281,"sku":null,"price":469.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64310055240049,"sku":null,"price":429.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64310055272817,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64310055305585,"sku":null,"price":1229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64310055338353,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150L","offer_id":64310055371121,"sku":null,"price":1089.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64310055403889,"sku":null,"price":469.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"143mm","offer_id":64446152606065,"sku":null,"price":60.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/kqVNfIu-Wsg7Fu9xtFLeO_nlS5Rq6Y.jpg?v=1787629020"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-sublime","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii SUBLIME (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere a hedge has to sit in a narrow run between a fence and a path, Sublime is a sensible pick. It grows more upright and tighter than the older seedling lilly pillies, so there is less width to give up and less constant cutting back off the path edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoliage is glossy mid green, with new growth coming through in lime and soft bronze rather than the hot red of the fire toned selections. It reads calmer, and it sits better against rendered walls and grey paving than a hedge that is red half the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt takes hard clipping well, including square shouldered formal shapes and standards, and it pays to feed after each heavy cut. The psyllid damage that disfigures some Syzygium is not an issue with Acmena, but scale and sooty mould can build up on a hedge planted tight against a wall with no air movement, so leave yourself a gap behind the row.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 15 sizes, from 140mm up to 200L, priced from $30.95 to $1319.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"50L","offer_id":64310055797105,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64310055829873,"sku":null,"price":42.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64310055862641,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm Squat","offer_id":64310055895409,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64310055928177,"sku":null,"price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64310055960945,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64310056026481,"sku":null,"price":539.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64310056059249,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64310056092017,"sku":null,"price":1319.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64310056124785,"sku":null,"price":679.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64310056157553,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64310056190321,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64310056223089,"sku":null,"price":72.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64310056255857,"sku":null,"price":379.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"430mm","offer_id":64310056288625,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/47F-MWX9d6YNbWOaCuYt_4Icqrtdw.jpg?v=1787629102"},{"product_id":"weeping-lilly-pilly-waterhousea-floribunda-green-avenue","title":"Weeping Lilly Pilly - Waterhousea floribunda GREEN AVENUE (Syzygium floribundum)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, Waterhousea floribunda grows along creek banks in northern NSW and southern Queensland, roots in damp ground and canopy hanging out over the water. That tells you most of what you need to know. It wants moisture, and it will shed leaves and look thin if it is allowed to dry out hard through a long summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreen Avenue is the tighter, more uniform selection made for street and driveway work. The foliage is narrow with wavy margins, hanging in a soft weeping curtain, and new growth flushes copper pink across the outside of the canopy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsed as a tall screen it will lift well past two storeys in time, so it needs room and soil depth. It is a poor choice squeezed against a single storey wall or planted under power lines. Given space, a run of them makes a dense green wall that keeps its foliage right through winter and takes clipping along the flanks without complaint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 11 sizes, from 200mm up to 1500L, priced from $39.95 to $12989.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311318675825,"sku":null,"price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311318708593,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311318741361,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300L","offer_id":64311318774129,"sku":null,"price":2119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64311318806897,"sku":null,"price":459.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400L","offer_id":64311318839665,"sku":null,"price":4509.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311318872433,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311318905201,"sku":null,"price":1199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311318937969,"sku":null,"price":1529.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311318970737,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1500L","offer_id":64311319003505,"sku":null,"price":12989.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/KeTyHJWkUV5hW6kdkwcjg_SdWluq0D.jpg?v=1787629103"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-minor","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii Minor (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMinor is the small leaved form of Acmena smithii, and the leaf is the whole story. It is short and narrow, so a clipped face reads as fine texture rather than a wall of chopped foliage, and cut ends are far less obvious in the week after a trim than they are on a large leaved hedge. Growth is dense and twiggy from the base on a frame that stays well below the straight species. It is the plant for low hedges, clipped balls and mounds, driveway edges and formal shapes around lawns, and it holds those shapes without a fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe same country as the species\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe same country suits it as the species: coastal and near coastal Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria, plus the milder districts of South Australia and Western Australia. Sun or part shade, free draining soil with compost dug through, and mulch kept up over the shallow roots, which matters more here than on a tall hedge because a low clipped plant carries less leaf to shade its own root zone and dries out sooner. Space plants 500 to 750mm apart for a low hedge. For clipped balls, allow the finished width plus a gap you can get a barrow through, since you will be walking around each one several times a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOrder the whole run at once\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trap with Minor is that it is a seed grown line rather than a single clone, so leaf size and vigour vary a little from plant to plant. In an informal screen nobody notices. In a long formal run assembled from three orders placed months apart, you get visible steps in texture and height where the batches meet, and no amount of trimming evens them out, because the difference sits in the plant rather than in the shape you cut. Order the full quantity in one go so it comes off the same batch, lay every plant out along the line and sort them by size before anything goes in the ground, and put the strongest at the ends where the eye travels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMinor beside the species, and beside brush cherry\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompared with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii\"\u003eAcmena smithii\u003c\/a\u003e, the choice is finished size. The straight species has real tree height in it, which is what you want on a tall boundary and what you do not want in a knee high edge that then needs cutting back four times a year to stay there. Compared with a compact brush cherry such as \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-plum-magic\"\u003ePlum Magic\u003c\/a\u003e, Minor trades the purple flush for foliage psyllid does not attack, which matters most on a low hedge beside a front door where the leaves are looked at from a metre away. For clipped balls and standards in pots it is also the steadier of the two Acmenas, since it is not pushing for height the whole time. More clipped options are in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLittle and often\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShear lightly and often through the growing season rather than waiting for it to get away. Small leaved forms hold their shape well between cuts, and the fine leaf means a trim leaves no obvious damage across the face, so there is no reason to be timid with the shears. Start shaping in the first season to build interior branching early, then ease off as the weather cools. Feed at a modest rate when growth first moves and once more before the heat peaks; a heavy feed on a low hedge only buys you extra trimming without adding the density you actually wanted.\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 200L, priced from $16.95 to $2189.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311320510833,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311320543601,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311320576369,"sku":null,"price":1199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311320609137,"sku":null,"price":64.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150L","offer_id":64311320641905,"sku":null,"price":699.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311320674673,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311320707441,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311320740209,"sku":null,"price":2189.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311320772977,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-acmena-smithii-minor_84729966-32a4-4145-b879-1c1662f6a850.png?v=1785551559"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcmena smithii is the lilly pilly specified when a hedge has to stay clean without a spray program. Its foliage is not attacked by the psyllid that dimples and distorts many Syzygium selections, and on the east coast that one fact settles a lot of jobs. The species itself is variable, running from a large shrub to a tree over 10 metres depending on the form, with glossy dark green leaves, bronze pink new growth, cream flowers and white to mauve berries. It is the standard choice for clipped hedges and tall screens where reliability counts for more than novelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCoastal east, and the shadier end of its light range\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is at home through coastal Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria, and grows well in the cooler coastal parts of South Australia and Western Australia. It also handles the shadier end of its light range better than the brush cherries do, which makes it the obvious plant for a south facing boundary where a Syzygium hedge would thin out. Soil should drain while still holding organic matter. Allow 1 to 1.5 metres between plants for a tall screen, or 750mm to 1 metre where the hedge is held at fence height. The berries want planning for as well, since they drop in quantity and will stain, so keep the row back from driveways and pool surrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIt is a rainforest plant, and dry wind is what breaks it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trouble with Acmena comes from putting a shade tolerant, humidity adapted rainforest species on an exposed site with hot dry wind, thin soil and no mulch. It scorches along the leaf margins, drops its inner leaves and then sits there sulking, and cutting it achieves nothing because there is no reserve behind the cut to push a recovery. This is the plant that looks poor on an open western boundary in an inland town while thriving three streets away in a sheltered courtyard. Give it a mulched root zone, shelter from the worst of the prevailing wind, and deep watering through its first two summers, and after that it looks after itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAgainst Minor and the brush cherries\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween the two Acmena entries, size splits them. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-minor\"\u003eAcmena smithii Minor\u003c\/a\u003e is the small leaved form and the better pick for anything below eye level, where its short narrow leaf hides cut ends. The straight species carries a bigger leaf and far more height in it, so it is the one for tall screens and for a hedge that has to cover a two storey outlook. Set against a brush cherry such as \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-resilience\"\u003eResilience\u003c\/a\u003e, the trade is colour for cleanliness: the brush cherries flush red and bronze and need psyllid watched, while Acmena gives a quieter bronze pink and nothing to manage. More clipped options are in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShearing and recovery\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt takes shearing as often as you care to give it, with two cuts a year holding an informal screen and four keeping a formal face crisp. The useful difference from the brush cherries shows at the other end: Acmena reshoots from older wood more reliably, so a hedge that has been let go is usually recoverable through a staged reduction across two seasons instead of one hard cut. Feed it at the start of that recovery and again the following spring to drive the new wood, and keep mulch over the surface roots the whole time it is refurnishing.\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 $16.95 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. 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? 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It is dense and low branching rather than upright, so it does its screening at border and low hedge height instead of standing as a privacy wall. Colour on a small frame is why it turns up as a clipped edge along paths, in mass planting under windows, and in pots either side of a doorway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSun deepens the purple\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompact brush cherry grows right along the eastern seaboard, from south east Queensland through New South Wales and the ACT into Victoria, and through the milder South Australian gardens and coastal Western Australia. Sun deepens the purple, while shade takes it muddier and greener and opens the growth up to match. Give it free draining soil with some organic matter dug through, mulch after planting, and set plants 500 to 750mm apart for a low hedge, which is closer than you would space a full sized screening cultivar because there is less plant available to fill the gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe failure is heat at the roots, not at the leaves\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompact lilly pillies end up exactly where a full sized one will not fit: pots, planter boxes, and the narrow strip between a west facing wall and a paved path. Every one of those positions cooks the root zone through a summer afternoon, and the plant reports it from the bottom up. Leaf margins brown, the purple flush comes through weak and short lived, and the base thins while the top still looks passable. Watering more often makes it worse, because a shallow daily sprinkle keeps the roots up in the top few centimetres, which is the part that gets hottest. In a hot reflected position, take the largest container you can live with rather than a neat one, mulch the surface even in a pot, and water long and infrequently so the roots follow the moisture down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHeight decides between these\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeight decides this one. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-big-red\"\u003eBig Red\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-resilience\"\u003eResilience\u003c\/a\u003e will both hold a face above fence height, and pinning either of them at knee height means constant cutting and a permanent supply of soft growth for psyllid. Plum Magic reaches low hedge height and stops, so it keeps its shape with far less intervention and takes container culture that the tall growers outgrow within a couple of seasons. Take Plum Magic for borders, low dividers, mass plantings and pots, and one of the taller two when the point of the planting is to block a view. Both ends of that range sit in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClipping and feeding\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrimming is what keeps the colour coming here, since every cut triggers a fresh purple flush, so tip prune lightly and often through spring and summer rather than making one hard cut a year. Ease off as autumn cools so soft growth is not left exposed. In the ground, feed at the start of spring and again in mid summer with a controlled release fertiliser suited to natives. In pots, cut the rate and feed more often instead, because container plants are watered harder and lose nutrients out the bottom. Leave two or three of the shoots that come from the base each year; they are what thickens the bottom of a low hedge.\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 400mm, priced from $35.95 to $199.00 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? 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Backyard Bliss was selected to sidestep that problem, and it holds clean flat foliage where seedling-grown Syzygium australe pimples up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe habit is naturally dense and upright with a narrow base, so it suits a hedge along a fence line where you cannot give up much width. New growth flushes bronze to coppery red before hardening to glossy mid green, and a hedge trimmed two or three times over the warmer months keeps throwing that colour. Left unclipped it carries fluffy white flowers followed by pink to red edible fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wants moisture. In full sun with dry feet the leaves dull off and growth stalls, so mulch heavily and keep water up through the first couple of summers. Part shade suits it fine. Feed in spring to drive the flush, and start trimming while plants are young so the base fills in rather than going bare. Hedging quantities ship farm direct to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 13 sizes, from 200mm up to 200L, priced from $45.95 to $999.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311356293489,"sku":null,"price":849.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150L","offer_id":64311356326257,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"125L","offer_id":64311356359025,"sku":null,"price":889.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311356391793,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64311356424561,"sku":null,"price":619.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311356457329,"sku":null,"price":72.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64311356522865,"sku":null,"price":429.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311356555633,"sku":null,"price":999.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311356588401,"sku":null,"price":599.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311356621169,"sku":null,"price":139.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311356653937,"sku":null,"price":45.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311356686705,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm Squat","offer_id":64311356719473,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10L","offer_id":64446157324657,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/LttxwqIP1s52IL_OQj-PH_dM2NSz92.jpg?v=1787629187"},{"product_id":"weeping-lilly-pilly-waterhousea-floribunda-amaroo","title":"Weeping Lilly Pilly - Waterhousea floribunda Amaroo (Syzygium floribundum)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen you are planting a row and need the trees to match, seedling stock is the risk. This selected form of the weeping lilly pilly runs denser and more compact through the crown, which makes it far more predictable. The foliage hangs in long willowy curtains, and the leaves have a rippled wavy margin that catches light differently from the flat-leaved Syzygium hedges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew growth comes through in pink and copper tones over deep glossy green. Waterhousea does not suffer the psyllid pimpling that plagues some lilly pillies, so the foliage stays smooth even when the plant is not being clipped constantly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRun as a tall screen it carries foliage from the ground up and takes hard pruning to stay in bounds. Left alone it becomes a substantial weeping tree, so match the grade you plant to the space you actually have. It wants moisture and does not enjoy long dry spells in full sun, so mulch deeply and keep water up through summer while it establishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 11 sizes, from 3L up to 2000L, priced from $36.95 to $3309.00 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? 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Planted in a garden it does not forget that. Expect a vigorous plant that wants soil with moisture in it, and that repays you with cover from the ground up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaves are long, glossy and distinctly wavy along the margins, carried on pendulous branchlets so the whole canopy moves in a breeze. Small white flowers are followed by pale fruit that drops in quantity, worth thinking about over paving, pools and driveways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the straight species rather than a named clone, so individual plants vary a little in vigour and habit. Allow for that variation when you are lining up a run of screening trees. 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It stays dense from low down, so it screens at eye level instead of going bare and leggy at the base the way older Syzygium selections do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew growth flushes bronze to copper against glossy dark mature leaves, and the small fluffy white flowers are followed by edible berries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat ruins lilly pillies is psyllid, the sap sucking insect that pits and puckers new leaves. Pinnacle was selected for resistance and holds up far better than the old Eugenia hedges, but check each new flush anyway and hose off or treat early if you see dimpling. The other common failure is drought stress. They look tough, but a hedge that dries out sheds leaf from the inside out, so mulch well and water deeply through the first two summers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 30L, at $199.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"30L","offer_id":64311370940785,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/IKDHB3utdXhxhkCVq2sIq_MJOnjewf.jpg?v=1787629277"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-straight-and-narrow","title":"Brush Cherry - Syzygium australe Straight and Narrow (Eugenia australis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere a hedge has to go into a strip barely wider than a garden bed, Straight and Narrow is the lilly pilly landscapers keep coming back to. It grows naturally upright and tight, with small leaves held close to the stem, so it screens to height without pushing out over a path or into the lawn. A single row will close into a green wall along a fence line and hold there with one or two light trims a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew growth flushes bronze to coppery red against the dark mature foliage, followed by fluffy white flowers and small pink berries. It is one of the selections bred for psyllid resistance, so you are not looking at pimpled, distorted tips the way you would on unselected Syzygium australe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not a dry site plant. Keep the moisture up through the first few summers and mulch properly, because a lilly pilly that dries out sheds leaf from the bottom and takes a long time to fill back in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 10 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? 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New growth on Hinterland Gold breaks a buttery yellow gold rather than red or bronze, then hardens down to deep green, so a hedge on a regular cycle carries pale tips over a dark body through most of the growing season. The leaf is small and set closely along the stem, and that spacing is what lets it hold a genuinely tight shear line instead of the shaggy outline a larger leaved lilly pilly leaves you with. It is the selection to reach for when the hedge is a piece of architecture: a squared face along a path, a low block around a lawn, a clipped screen against a rendered wall, or topiary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSiting a formal hedge\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHinterland Gold suits the coastal and near coastal belt from south east Queensland through New South Wales and the ACT into Victoria, plus gardens around Adelaide and through the south west of Western Australia. The gold reads brighter in an open position and goes greener and softer in shade, so put a formal run where it gets sun for most of the day. Set it out on a string line and take the time to get the spacing even at 750mm to 1 metre, because a formal face shows every wobble in the row for the life of the hedge, and a plant set 200mm out of line cannot be trimmed back into place without cutting a hollow into the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat kills these hedges is a trench that becomes a sump\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrush cherry will not sit in wet ground, and the usual way it ends up there is a planting trench dug through clay and backfilled with bagged potting mix. Water runs into the loose fill, cannot escape through the clay walls, and sits around the collar for days after heavy rain. Plants die out one at a time across a couple of wet seasons, and a gap in the middle of a formal hedge takes years to close because the neighbouring plants have already claimed the space above it. Rip or improve the whole planting strip rather than digging isolated holes, plant on a low mound with the top of the root ball proud of the surrounding soil, and cover the difference with mulch rather than more soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eColour and leaf size split this range\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eColour and leaf size separate this range. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-big-red\"\u003eBig Red\u003c\/a\u003e flushes deep red on a coarser, bolder frame and forgives a rougher cut. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-resilience\"\u003eResilience\u003c\/a\u003e is the upright one to reach for when a screen simply has to clear fence height. Hinterland Gold is the fine textured, formal option of the three, and it repays the extra trimming a crisp face demands. If you want seasonal colour without committing to four cuts a year, Big Red is the easier plant to live with. Related screens sit in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow often it wants cutting\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA formal face wants cutting whenever a flush has just hardened, which through the warm months usually means a pass every couple of months, while an informal screen holds its shape on two cuts a year. Taper off as growth slows into winter so soft tips are not left exposed through the cold. Feed as growth starts in spring and once more before Christmas with a native safe controlled release product, watered in well. A plant kept in steady growth pushes flushes that harden quickly, and the less time a hedge spends carrying soft leaves the less there is for psyllid to work on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 140mm up to 200L, priced from $16.95 to $999.00 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? 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Fluffy pink powderpuff flowers follow, then small edible fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is grown mainly as a screen. The soft drooping growth means it clips into a hedge with a slightly informal face rather than the hard flat wall you get from a stiffer lilly pilly, and it responds better to regular tip pruning than to being shorn back into old wood. Psyllid disfigurement is far less of an issue on this one than on the older Syzygium smithii forms, which is the main reason landscapers keep specifying it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun to part shade, moderate water and a mulched root zone. It will sulk in compacted clay that stays wet through winter, and it wants feeding after each trim to keep the new pink flushes coming. Available from 140mm pots through to 100L for an instant screen line.\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 $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? 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It handles damp ground and short periods of inundation and keeps moving in a spot where most screening plants yellow off and stall. Growth is upright and open when young, filling into a dense rounded crown, and left alone this becomes a tree that can pass 15 metres rather than a clipped wall. New foliage flushes pink to copper against glossy green, the flowers are the fluffy white brushes typical of the genus, and the fruit is pale pink and edible. Use it for large screens, boundary lines, shade and revegetation on wet ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrost stops it, and there is no working around that\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a tropical and subtropical species and it does not pretend otherwise. It is at ease in Queensland and along the warmer New South Wales coast. Young plants are cut back by frost and a cold inland garden will not hold it at all, so in the southern states keep it to frost free coastal positions or choose a different plant. That is a real constraint rather than a caution, and it is the question to settle before anything else about this species matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWet ground and spacing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything after the frost question is easy. Sun or part shade, and unlike the rest of this range it accepts heavier soil and a low spot that stays damp for days after rain. It will grow in clay, in silty river ground and in improved sand, provided it is not left dry for long stretches through its first summers, which is the one thing that checks it. Set plants 1.5 to 2 metres apart and let them grow into each other, since this is a plant for a tall informal screen rather than a tight formal hedge. Keep the root zone mulched and weed free while it establishes and it moves along quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWater splits this group\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWater splits this group. The brush cherry selections and both Acmena entries want ground that drains and will sulk or rot where it stays wet, and they are chosen to be clipped rather than to stand as trees, so they are the wrong answer for a large informal screen in any case. River cherry is the one that takes the damp corner. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-francisii\"\u003eGiant water gum\u003c\/a\u003e is the other large scale screening tree here, finer in leaf and far better suited to cooler southern gardens, so it is the substitute when the site is wet but the climate is not warm enough for this one. If the ground drains and you are gardening in Victoria or the Adelaide hills, take \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii\"\u003eAcmena smithii\u003c\/a\u003e instead. Related plants sit in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTree or screen, decided early\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecide early which shape you are after. Prune for a clear trunk from the start if it is going to be a shade tree, or tip prune from the first season if you want a screen furnished to the ground, because converting one into the other later is a long job. Cut after each flush hardens through the warm months and stop as the weather cools, since soft growth heading into a cold snap is exactly the growth that gets burnt. Feed young plants in early spring and again in mid summer, remembering that nutrients move through wet ground faster, so lighter and more often beats one heavy application. Once established in damp ground it asks for very little.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 75mm up to 400L, priced from $16.95 to $2749.00 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? 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In forest it passes 20 metres with a buttressed base and a broad canopy, and while it clips willingly as a young plant, nothing about a pair of shears changes what it intends to become. The foliage is the reason to want it anyway: small, glossy and densely held, finer in texture than most of the screening syzygiums, with new growth flushing bronze pink across the top of the canopy. Cream flowers give way to small mauve fruit that birds strip. Use it for large screens, windbreaks, avenues and shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIts natural range, and where it gets planted\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt ranges naturally through the subtropical and warm temperate east and is planted from Queensland down the New South Wales coast into Victoria and the ACT, and in sheltered gardens around Adelaide and Perth. Sun or part shade both suit it. It accepts a moister site than the brush cherries will, though it still wants drainage rather than standing water, and it establishes fastest with a mulched, weed free root zone for the first two or three years. If you are hedging it, space plants 1 to 1.5 metres apart and understand that you have signed up to regular trimming for the life of the hedge, not for its first five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe mistake is where it goes in, not how it is grown\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tree gives little trouble in the right spot and is not much bothered by psyllid, so nearly every failure with it is a siting failure. It gets planted in courtyards, on narrow verges and a couple of metres off a slab, because in a 200mm pot it looks like a neat shrub. Ten years on it is either being butchered into a shape it will not hold, or being removed at cost, and by then the roots are into the drains. Give it room for a canopy and keep it well back from footings, service trenches and boundaries. A rough test before you dig: if you would not plant a mature fig there, do not plant this either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe other large screening options\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii\"\u003eAcmena smithii\u003c\/a\u003e is the other big screening lilly pilly here and the safer choice for an ordinary suburban hedge, since psyllid leaves its foliage alone and it is more forgiving of being held at a fixed height. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-tierneyanum\"\u003eSyzygium tierneyanum\u003c\/a\u003e is the one for ground that stays wet. Take giant water gum when you have a long boundary, an acreage screen, a windbreak or a park to plant and want fine textured foliage on a tree with a real trunk under it. For a backyard hedge, take Acmena smithii instead. Larger stock sits in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/advanced-trees\"\u003eadvanced trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePruning for a tree or a hedge\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a hedge, cut two or three times through the warm months as each flush hardens, and keep the top narrower than the base so light still reaches the lower foliage, or the bottom metre goes hollow. As a tree, prune only for structure while it is young: take out competing leaders early and lift the low branches across several seasons rather than in one go, since a heavy single lift on a young rainforest tree leaves a thin whippy trunk that then needs staking. One controlled release feed as growth starts in spring is enough for young stock, watered in well. An established tree in reasonable soil asks for nothing beyond mulch.\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 400L, priced from $17.95 to $2749.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311460069745,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311460102513,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311460135281,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311460168049,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311460200817,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400L","offer_id":64311460233585,"sku":null,"price":2749.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311460266353,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-franciss-lilly-pilly-syzygium-francisii_a271f1e0-266a-4478-af49-f4bfaed3e145.png?v=1785551901"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-luehmannii","title":"Riberry - Syzygium luehmannii","description":"\u003cp\u003eRiberry flushes bright pink to crimson and hardens slowly to glossy green, so the plant is rarely a flat wall of one shade. The leaves are small and narrow for a Syzygium, which gives a finer texture than brush cherry and lets it take a close clip without looking hacked about. It is a coastal rainforest tree found from the mid north coast of New South Wales up through Queensland, and it is grown here three ways at once: as a screen, as a specimen, and as a bushfood plant for its small red pear shaped fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWarm coast, and shelter further south\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubtropical and warm temperate gardens suit it, from south east Queensland down the New South Wales coast, and it is grown successfully in sheltered positions in the ACT, Victoria and the warmer pockets of South Australia and Western Australia. Young plants are frost sensitive, so a cold inland garden needs to protect them through their first couple of winters. It wants soil that holds some moisture and it appreciates mulch, and it sulks where established tree roots have already taken the water, which is the usual reason a riberry planted under a big eucalypt never gets going. In full sun it stays dense; in part shade it opens up and leans towards the light. For a screen, allow 1.5 to 2 metres between plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eYou can have the hedge or the crop, not both\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiberry flowers on wood that has been left to mature, so this is the plant where the shears decide what you end up with. A specimen sheared as a formal hedge every few weeks through spring and summer will look tidy and will never fruit, because each cut removes the growth that was going to carry the flowers. If the crop is the reason you are planting it, grow it as a small tree or a loose informal screen and accept a softer outline. If you only want the hedge, clip away and treat the fruit as something you have chosen to forgo. Either way, look at what sits underneath, because a settled plant drops fruit in quantity and it will stain pale paving and clog a pool skimmer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe one grown for its fruit\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiberry is the one in this range grown as much for the fruit as the foliage, that fruit having a tart, cranberry like flavour and being the same thing sold as a bushfood. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii\"\u003eAcmena smithii\u003c\/a\u003e fruits too, but its white to mauve berries are mostly of interest to birds, and its real strength is a clean hedge psyllid leaves alone. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-big-red\"\u003eBig Red\u003c\/a\u003e carries deeper red on its new growth in a clipped hedge, but it is a hedging plant and nothing more. Take riberry when you want a fine leaved screen or a specimen that also feeds you, and give it more room than you would give a brush cherry. Larger stock is grouped in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/advanced-trees\"\u003eadvanced trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTiming the cuts and the feed\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTip prune young plants through spring and summer to build the branching, then leave any harder shaping until straight after the fruit has come off, so you are not cutting away the wood carrying the next crop. Stop trimming as autumn cools, since soft growth going into a cold snap on a frost sensitive plant invites damage. Feed once the fruit is finished to help the plant rebuild, and again as growth starts the following spring, watered in both times. Keep mulch over the root zone through summer, because on this species drying out is what checks growth and drops fruit before it is ready.\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 1000L, priced from $17.95 to $4949.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311465476465,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311465509233,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311465542001,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1000L","offer_id":64311465574769,"sku":null,"price":4949.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311465607537,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311465640305,"sku":null,"price":1569.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311465673073,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-luehmanns-lilly-pilly-syzygium-luehmannii_80501dbe-159c-4934-98b1-b09943646491.png?v=1785551917"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-aust-winterlight-pbr","title":"Lilly Pilly - Syzygium aust Winterlight PBR (Acmena)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVariegation is the whole point of Winterlight. Each mid green leaf is edged in creamy yellow, and new growth flushes pink and bronze through the colder months, which is where the name comes from. Clipped as a hedge it reads as a soft gold band rather than a solid dark wall, so it works against brick or as a lighter panel between darker screening plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical things. Variegated lilly pillies throw the occasional all green shoot, and because those shoots are more vigorous they will take over the plant if left. Cut them out at the base whenever you see them. Second, colour needs light. In deep shade the margins fade back towards green and the winter tones never really arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is often catalogued under Acmena, but this is a Syzygium australe selection. Feed in spring, keep the water up through the first couple of summers, and clip lightly and often rather than hard once a year. Sold in 5lt and in 90lt advanced stock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 5L up to 90L, priced from $29.95 to $539.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311467671921,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64311467704689,"sku":null,"price":539.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/3uvaPtPJxosjwoq4GfcOP_VVUW6qeh.jpg?v=1787629721"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-resilience","title":"Brush Cherry - Syzygium australe Resilience (Eugenia australis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eResilience was selected for its resistance to the psyllid that pimples and puckers the new leaves of older brush cherry hedges, and that name is the reason to read a cultivar tag rather than buying whatever unlabelled brush cherry is on the bench. Resistance is not immunity, and a stressed plant will still take damage, but on a fed and watered hedge it is the difference between a clean face and one you spend every summer picking over. The habit is upright and tightly branched from low down, and every flush comes through bronze red before hardening to small glossy dark green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRange and setting out\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt handles coastal and inland gardens through Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, with young plants wanting shelter from frost in cold districts for their first winters. Sun or part shade both work. Ground should drain, with compost worked through beforehand and mulch over the top afterwards. Space at 750mm to 1 metre for a screen and tighter again for a clipped low hedge. This is the one cultivar in the range that will genuinely be held anywhere from knee height to well above a paling fence, so settle the finished dimensions before planting rather than after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDo not save it up for one cut a year\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe way these plants get wrecked is the annual haircut. A hedge left to run for a season or two and then taken back hard is being cut into leafless old wood, and brush cherry is slow and patchy about reshooting from there. You can be looking at bare stems for months with no guarantee the face returns evenly, and the parts that do fill are the ones with light on them, which is rarely the middle of the row. Begin trimming while the plant is still smaller than its finished size and take a little off two or three times a season. Growth is moderate to fast, so that is not a burden, it is a few short passes between spring and the end of summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAgainst the coloured selections\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the others commits to one look. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-hinterland-gold\"\u003eHinterland Gold\u003c\/a\u003e gives a gold flush on a fine leaf that suits formal shapes and wants the trimming to match. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-plum-magic\"\u003ePlum Magic\u003c\/a\u003e gives purple on a compact frame for low work only. Resilience is the general purpose plant of the group: conventional bronze red growth, tight branching, and no fixed ceiling. Pick it when the finished height is not settled, or when one cultivar has to cover several different jobs around the same garden and you would rather not match three sets of foliage. Pick Hinterland Gold instead when the shape is formal and the colour is the point. More screens sit in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFeeding around the cuts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTie the feeding to the trimming rather than the calendar. A hedge fed just as it starts moving in spring recovers from a cut quickly and pushes a flush that hardens fast, which is the behaviour that keeps psyllid pressure low, so the resistance in the name is only doing half its job if the plant is hungry. A controlled release product suited to natives at the start of spring and a top up after the first summer cut will carry it, watered in each time. Keep moisture steady while the hedge fills in, because the first two summers decide whether the base stays furnished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 12 sizes, from 100mm up to 200L, priced from $16.95 to $999.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311467802993,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64311467835761,"sku":null,"price":469.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311467868529,"sku":null,"price":139.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311467901297,"sku":null,"price":999.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311467934065,"sku":null,"price":259.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100mm","offer_id":64311467966833,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311467999601,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311468032369,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311468065137,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311468097905,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311468130673,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"430mm","offer_id":64311468163441,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-lilly-pilly-resilience-syzygium-australe-resilience_7531a2f1-3181-41f7-92f8-b4fb19d2cff1.png?v=1785551927"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-sublime-pbr","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii Sublime PBR (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhich lilly pilly can you plant beside a path without ending up with pimpled, distorted leaves? Acmena selections like Sublime are the usual answer. The lilly pilly psyllid that blisters so many Syzygium hedges largely leaves Acmena smithii alone, and Sublime was chosen as a compact, dense form with bright lime green new growth flushing over darker mature foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt clips into a tight hedge in the low to mid range and holds its shape, rather than running away on you as a screening tree. Fluffy cream flowers are followed by soft white to mauve berries, worth knowing before you plant it over pale paving or a pool surround, because the fruit stains and gets walked inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep the water up through the first two summers. Drought stress early on is what produces bare bases and patchy hedges years later. Botanists now fold Acmena into Syzygium, so you will see the same plant labelled Syzygium smithii. Supplied in 5lt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $30.95 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311470653809,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/krGdSVii2zYBgjZ_gWSCt_tTRMeBJt.jpg?v=1787629790"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-big-red","title":"Brush Cherry - Syzygium australe Big Red (Eugenia australis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBig Red is grown for the intensity of its new growth. Each flush breaks a deep red over the older canopy and stays coloured well past the point where an unnamed seedling brush cherry has already gone green, so a hedge cut two or three times a year carries a red face over a dark body for much of the growing season. The frame underneath is upright and branched right down to soil level, which is what lets it hold a clean clipped edge from the ground up rather than standing on bare legs. It is used as a trimmed privacy hedge along boundaries, driveways and pool fences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCoastal and near coastal country suits it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrush cherry is a warm temperate to subtropical plant, and Big Red is a safe bet in coastal and near coastal gardens from south east Queensland down through New South Wales. It grows in Victoria, the ACT and the settled parts of South Australia and Western Australia, where what you plan around is a cold first winter or two on young stock rather than anything the mature plant will complain about. Light drives the colour here. In open sun the red comes through dense and even; on a face that only sees a few hours it still flushes, but the growth is looser and the colour paler. Give it ground that drains, work compost through sand or heavy clay before planting, and mulch over the root zone without banking it against the stems. Space plants 750mm to 1 metre apart for a continuous run.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe trap is trimming little and often all summer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBig Red is bought for a flush, which tempts people into tipping the hedge lightly every few weeks from September through to March to keep triggering more of it. That single habit undoes the plant. Psyllid works on soft young leaves, and a hedge never allowed to harden off carries a supply of them without a break, so the pimpling never clears out of the face. It thins the colour as well, because a hedge nipped constantly pushes many small weak flushes instead of a few strong ones. Cut in two or three decisive passes instead, let each flush colour up and harden fully before the next cut, and take pimpled growth off the plant and out from under it rather than leaving it sitting in the hedge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhich colour, and at what height\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis range splits on which colour you get and how tall the plant will carry it. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-plum-magic\"\u003ePlum Magic\u003c\/a\u003e flushes plum purple on a compact frame, so it belongs on low hedges, borders and in pots. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-winter-lights\"\u003eWinter Lights\u003c\/a\u003e puts bronze and orange on its outer growth through the cool months instead of in warm season bursts. Big Red is the full height screening plant of the three and the one that reddens with every push through spring and summer. Choose it for a fence height or taller hedge that changes colour as it grows, and drop to Plum Magic if the finished run sits below waist height. Other clipped options sit in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFeeding a colour hedge\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eColour on this cultivar is a function of vigour, so a hungry Big Red gives you short dull flushes and a thin face. Put a controlled release feed down as growth first moves in spring, repeat it once the first summer flush has hardened, and water it through both times. Keep the mulch layer topped up so the shallow surface roots do not dry out and stall in January. Formative cuts in the first two seasons count for more than anything done later, because they set the low branching the finished face depends on.\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 300mm, priced from $29.95 to $109.00 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? 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It is the straight grown form of the species rather than one of the resistance bred named clones, and it does the plain work of a screen well: upright, densely branched, glossy green, with a red bronze flush on every new cycle of growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnclipped it keeps rising well past fence height and can be run as a narrow screening tree between properties. Clipped, it holds any line from waist height upwards and recovers quickly from a hard cut. Small white flowers are followed by pink fruit that birds take.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause it is not one of the psyllid resistant selections, expect some pimpling on new growth in humid weather. Keeping plants fed and watered so they flush strongly, then shearing off affected tips, keeps that cosmetic rather than serious. Evergreen, full sun to part shade, moderate water, moderate to fast growth. Delivery is a flat $99 to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, which suits ordering a full run in one go.\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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311483761009,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3L","offer_id":64311483793777,"sku":null,"price":96.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311483826545,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"430mm","offer_id":64311483859313,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311483892081,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311483924849,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311483957617,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311483990385,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311484023153,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/GTp6igkuIX8qEuWh3eCEe_ds07KTzS.jpg?v=1787629995"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-winter-lights","title":"Brush Cherry - Syzygium australe Winter Lights (Eugenia australis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinter Lights is named for what it does out of season. The outer growth carries warm bronze and orange tones through the cold months, sitting over darker mature foliage below, so the hedge has something in it during the part of the year when most evergreen screens are a flat green wall. Underneath that it behaves like the rest of the brush cherries: dense to the ground, knitting into a screen at a moderate to fast rate, fluffy white flowers in the warm months and pink edible fruit behind them. Hedging, screening and boundary privacy are its work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePosition decides whether you get the colour\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the cultivar where placement rather than culture determines whether you get what you paid for. Under eaves, along a south facing fence line or beneath established trees, the bronze and orange never really develops. The plant reaches for light instead, the interior thins, and you are left with an ordinary green hedge on bare legs. Give it an open position with sun for at least half the day, and put it where it is actually seen from the house in winter, not down the side of the block. The tones also read stronger where nights are genuinely cold, which makes it a better proposition in Victoria, the ACT and the southern tablelands than in a humid subtropical garden, though it grows well in both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGround, water and the cold districts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt suits gardens through coastal Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria and the milder parts of South Australia and Western Australia, with young plants worth sheltering through their first winter or two in cold inland districts. Free draining soil improved with compost, mulch over the roots, and a deep soak in dry spells, never a daily sprinkle, because a stressed hedge sheds its inner leaves before its outer ones and is slow to refurnish afterwards. Plants go in at 750mm to 1 metre centres for an unbroken screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWinter colour set against warm season colour\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery coloured brush cherry here flushes in the growing season. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-big-red\"\u003eBig Red\u003c\/a\u003e reddens with each new push and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-plum-magic\"\u003ePlum Magic\u003c\/a\u003e does the same in purple on a much smaller plant, but both have hardened to plain green by the time winter arrives. What Winter Lights offers is timing rather than intensity. Set against a plain screening selection such as \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-northern-select\"\u003eNorthern Select\u003c\/a\u003e, you are trading some height and bulk for seasonal interest. Take Winter Lights for a hedge in view of the living areas through winter, and Big Red if you would rather have the colour while the rest of the garden is already busy. Other screens are grouped in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe cut that costs you the colour\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrim through spring and summer as each flush hardens, then leave the plant alone from autumn onwards. A tidy up cut in April or May removes precisely the outer growth this cultivar is grown for, and you will not see the colour again until the following winter. Feed as growth begins and once more before the end of summer so the plant carries plenty of outer growth into the cold months, then stop, and do not push soft late growth that will neither colour nor harden. Rake clippings and any pimpled tips out from under the hedge instead of leaving them on the mulch.\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 200L, priced from $29.95 to $999.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311484055921,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311484088689,"sku":null,"price":239.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311484121457,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150L","offer_id":64311484154225,"sku":null,"price":709.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311484186993,"sku":null,"price":999.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311484219761,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-winter-lights-syzygium-syzygium-australe-winter-lights_52b5d18f-8cb4-483b-acec-1301b41c1d0f.png?v=1785551994"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-goodbye-neighbours-tm","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena Goodbye Neighbours TM (Syzygium)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone who has pulled out a hedge scarred by psyllid will understand the appeal of the Acmena side of the lilly pilly family. The pimple psyllid that pits and puckers new growth on many Syzygium selections largely leaves these alone, which is why they keep getting specified for long screening runs that nobody is realistically going to spray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoodbye Neighbours is grown as a tall, upright, narrow screen, dense enough to block a first floor window without eating the width of a side boundary. New growth flushes bronze before hardening to glossy deep green, and it takes trimming well if you start while the plants are young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe size offered here is 90lt, which is advanced stock. Plan for it: a two person lift or a trolley, holes dug and backfill ready before the truck arrives, and serious watering for the first two summers. Advanced lilly pilly is lost to a dried out root ball far more often than to anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlat $99 delivery, $399 order minimum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 90L, at $539.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"90L","offer_id":64311489069425,"sku":null,"price":539.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/r9aaSPxOwWQxZH4o3MYFo_MFyDkpRF.jpg?v=1787629931"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-northern-select","title":"Brush Cherry - Syzygium australe Northern Select (Eugenia australis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorthern Select is the conventional brush cherry look in a hedging selection: bronze red new leaves over glossy dark green, fluffy white flowers through the warm months, then crimson fruit the birds work through. It grows upright and tall for the group, so its job is screening above fence height rather than edging at border level. There is no novelty colour here, and that is the point of it. When the brief is a solid green wall between you and a neighbouring window, this is the plant that does it without asking for a colour scheme to be built around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEastern seaboard, and the southern capitals\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a plant for the eastern seaboard and the milder southern capitals, growing through Queensland and along the New South Wales coast, and on into Victoria, the ACT and the settled southern districts of South Australia and Western Australia. Young stock is the tender part, so in cold inland gardens give the first couple of winters some shelter. It wants soil that drains but still holds organic matter, so dig compost through sand or clay before planting, mulch the row afterwards and keep the mulch clear of the stems. Set the row at 750mm to 1 metre between plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLeave a gap behind the hedge\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mistake specific to a tall screening hedge is planting it hard up against the fence or wall it is meant to hide, usually to save 400mm of garden bed. The inner face then never gets light and never dries after rain or irrigation. Honeydew from scale and psyllid builds up on foliage no air moves through, sooty mould blackens it, and the hedge goes bare from the inside out while still looking respectable from the front, so nobody finds out until a fence panel needs replacing and the row has to be cut away. Set the line at least half a metre off the barrier, and thin the crossing interior growth once a year so light and air reach the middle of each plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBulk and height, or colour\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeside \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-plum-magic\"\u003ePlum Magic\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-winter-lights\"\u003eWinter Lights\u003c\/a\u003e, which are bought for purple and for cool season bronze on smaller frames, Northern Select is bought for bulk and height. The closer comparison is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lilly-pilly-syzygium-australe-resilience\"\u003eResilience\u003c\/a\u003e, which flushes much the same bronze red. Resilience holds a tighter, denser base and is the better plant where the hedge has to be kept low or shaped precisely, while Northern Select puts more of its energy into height and gets a two storey outlook covered sooner. Above head height either will do the work, and the choice usually comes down to the stock size available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrimming and feeding\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShape it from the first season. A hedge trimmed early branches low and stays furnished at the base, while one left to run for two years and then cut back hard is sitting in bare wood and takes a long time to green over. Cut once each flush has hardened through spring and summer and put the shears away as the weather cools. Two feeds carry it, one as growth first moves and one after midsummer, and mulch matters as much as the fertiliser on this cultivar, because it is holding a lot of leaf on shallow roots and the top of the profile is where those roots sit.\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 100L, priced from $29.95 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311497851249,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64311497884017,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311497916785,"sku":null,"price":109.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-lilly-pilly-northern-select-syzygium-australe-northern-select_bbceebee-d7ef-4b3f-9d86-8e1f19ec13f9.png?v=1785552081"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-big-red-pbr","title":"Lilly Pilly - Syzygium Big Red PBR (Acmena)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuy this one for the new growth. Big Red flushes a deep, sustained red that holds far longer than the brief bronze tips of older lilly pilly lines, and because a hedge pushes fresh growth every time you clip it, a regularly trimmed run can carry colour through much of the year. Foliage matures to glossy dark green and the plant is dense from low down, which is what you actually need in a screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelections of this type were bred with psyllid resistance in mind, so the pimpled, puckered leaves that ruin an old lilly pilly hedge are far less of a problem. They are not immune, and hungry, stressed plants always cop it worst. Older plans may still list plants of this group under \u003cem\u003eAcmena\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep water and a complete fertiliser up through the first two summers; hunger shows first as pale leaves and a thin base. This is the 90 litre grade, so it goes in as an instant screen rather than something you wait five years for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 90L, at $539.00 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"90L","offer_id":64311500996977,"sku":null,"price":539.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/X5RHBjXFk0HWqQq72q22u_szYaFAx5.jpg?v=1787630135"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-acmena-smithii-allyn-magic-pbr","title":"Lilly Pilly - Acmena smithii Allyn Magic PBR (Syzygium smithii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLandscapers reach for Allyn Magic when a lilly pilly is wanted and there is nowhere near enough room for one. It is among the smallest selections in the group, a dense, fine leaved dwarf with bronze to red new growth flushing over glossy dark mature foliage, so think low clipped hedge, bed border or pot rather than a tall boundary screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing an Acmena, it carries the resistance to psyllid that this group is valued for, which saves the pimpled, distorted leaves and the spraying that older lilly pillies demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt does want water. Dry it out repeatedly in a pot or a hot exposed bed and the foliage crisps and thins from the inside. Full sun through to part shade both work, with moderate consistent watering and a slow release feed in spring. In humid coastal districts keep an eye on soft new growth for myrtle rust. Trim lightly after each flush for a tight finish. Supplied in 170mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 170mm, at $21.95 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\/choosing-a-lilly-pilly\"\u003echoosing a lilly pilly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64311512170865,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/iVGREnAY_it9sr6zF3HxR_O5XaAb7i.jpg?v=1787630243"},{"product_id":"lilly-pilly-syzygium-hinterland-gold","title":"Lilly Pilly - Syzygium Hinterland Gold (Acmena)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere a lilly pilly hedge has to stay tidy without a fortnightly spray program, the Acmena side of the family earns its place. Hinterland Gold is a Syzygium selection of the plant long sold as Acmena, grown for flushes of bright golden-bronze new growth over dense, glossy green mature leaves, so a clipped face reads two-toned for weeks after each trim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcmena types are far less troubled by psyllid than many of the older Syzygium australe hedges, which is the main reason landscapers specify them for front fences and pool surrounds. It takes full sun through to part shade, grows at a moderate to fast rate, and holds moderate water needs rather than thriving on neglect. Feed after each cut to keep the flushes coming, because a starved plant goes dull and thins out at the base. Small white flowers are followed by rosy fruit on unclipped plants, which the birds sort out. Available in 300mm and 30lt for instant hedge work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 300mm up to 30L, priced from $88.95 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These mid-range sizes balance establishment speed against immediate presence, and they are the usual choice for general garden planting. Not sure which to choose? 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