Benefits of Eucalyptus
| • Bring a touch of Australia into your garden |
| • Some are fast growing- up to 8ft a year- Bringing maturity quickly to your garden - or maybe you are just impatient! |
| • Year round interest - beautiful bark |
| - evergreen foliage |
| - pink/yellow/red immature foliage |
| - flowering. All flower but some are very impressive |
| • Aromatic on a still hot day or when the leaves rustle in the breeze |
| • Fast growing evergreen hedge if you follow our recommendations |
| • Screening an eyesore or reducing next-door or traffic noise |
| • Keep flies away- they don’t seem very keen on Eucalyptus |
| • Minimum maintenance. Once Eucalypts are established after their first season, no further watering is needed |
| • Eucalyptus can give you the character and crown shape of broadleaved trees with year round evergreen foliage and make an interesting alternative to conifers. Many species have green foliage that complements our native trees |
| • Have a Eucalyptus race with your neighbour (some of our customers do)! |
Why buy from us?
| • Eucalyptus Nurseries have more than 30 years experience and with more than ½ million plants sold you can be assured that parent trees are from some of the coldest, windiest areas of the Snowy Mountains and the Central Tasmanian Plateau to ensure that your plants will be reliably hardy |
| • Order processed and dispatched within 14 days and maximum 48 hours in transit to UK mainland guaranteed. (We dispatch weekly, usually on a Monday) |
| • Secure online ordering |
| • Your privacy is paramount. We will not give your information to anyone |
| • Huge amounts of information about planting, growing, pruning etc in the In Depth Guide |
| • You can be confident that we will supply you with wonderful shrubs and trees that will prove to be a spectacular addition to your garden. See some of our testimonials |
Who has bought Eucalyptus - over 31,000 satisfied customers and growing:
London Zoo |
Falkland Island Government House |
RHS Wisley and Toddington |
National Collection of Eucalypts |
Eden Project |
Michael Heseltine |
National Botanic Garden of Wales |
Balmoral Castle |
Tom Hart-Dyke |
Coillte Teo (Irish Forestry Commission |
Roddy Llewellyn |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Basel Zoo |
Ranulph Ffiennes |
Lost Gardens of Heligan |
Commercial cut foliage growers |
| and many more.... |
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And to be fair, some criticisms of Eucalyptus:
There has been criticism recently of the effect of large scale planting of Eucalypts in the Mediterranean countries, India and Brazil. This is because their rapid growth requires large amounts of water and nutrients. In the drier areas, where they have unwisely been planted in a village water supply catchment area, this has lead to the lowering of the water table, the drying up of streams that originate in the areas planted and the impoverishment of the soils. This would suggest a more intelligent approach to planting is needed in these dry conditions.
Because of their rapid growth in the U.K. there has been criticism over their planting in small urban gardens. The author agrees with this point. Planting a tree on a small plot that will grow at 8ft a year and achieve a mature height in excess of 80ft and just leaving it can lead to many problems. In these circumstances it is essential to either coppice, pollard or hedge the Eucalyptus regularly or to plant one of the slower growing much smaller species which will suit a small garden.
If intelligently planted, ornamental Eucalypts are not a problem. Unfortunately, all too often, not enough information is given about the growth rates, mature size and after care of the plants. The endeavour here is to give our customers that important information.
The other objection is that they are not native to the U.K. and do not belong here. Not native meaning they were not growing in the U.K. immediately after the last ice age. Since about 80% of the plant species grown in British Gardens have been introduced since Roman times by plant collectors from all over the world. If we follow this argument to its conclusion we would substantially reduce the variety, beauty and diversity of our countryside and gardens.
