2m – 4m
Frangipani
Plumeria rubra
The most requested tree we handle. Slow-growing, so a mature one is worth real money — and almost impossible to buy at size anywhere else.
About frangipanisWe rescue established arid exotic trees in Adelaide and onsell them in gardens that will keep them. Free to the owner. Decades of growth, installed in a day.
Half the people who find us have a tree in the way of something. The other half want one that already looks a hundred years old. We sit in the middle, and the whole business only works because both sides exist.
Browse what's in the yard right now. Every one is a single specimen with its own name, measurements and history.
Open the stock list 02 — SellingIf it's on our list and it's sound, we'll take it away for nothing — instead of the $4,000–6,000 a removal would cost you.
Send us a photoWe're specialists, not generalists. These six move well, survive the lift, and there's a real market for them at size. If it isn't one of these, we're not the right people — and we'd rather say so than waste your time.
The most requested tree we handle. Slow-growing, so a mature one is worth real money — and almost impossible to buy at size anywhere else.
About frangipanisThe Canary Island date. The biggest thing we move, and the one that changes a street.
About date palmsA living sculpture. The swollen trunk is the whole point, and every one of them is a different shape.
About qld bottle treesMulti-headed, prehistoric-looking and increasingly hard to find. Grows about as fast as a glacier.
About dragon treesThe Mediterranean fan palm. Low, wide and multi-stemmed — a clump rather than a column, and tough as anything we handle.
About iconic palmsTree aloe. Sculptural, flowers in winter, and the most affordable way into a mature specimen.
About aloe treesA slim, hairy-trunked fan palm that takes more cold than anything else on this list.
About chinese windmill palmsSummer flower, autumn colour and a smooth mottled trunk that looks good bare all winter.
About crepe myrtlesGrey-green leaves in flat fans on a forked, corky trunk. The most architectural aloe we handle.
About fan aloesThe small feather-leaved Phoenix — mini date palm, pygmy date palm, same tree. Fine-textured, slow, and easy to place where a big palm would not fit.
About dwarf date palmsBlue-grey feather fronds that arch right back on themselves, over a stout ringed trunk.
About wine palmsThere's no resale market for any of this, so we won't insult you by pretending otherwise. We only take trees we can sell on, which means we're not the ones to call for these — an arborist is. Knowing that up front saves everyone a phone call.
Once a tree is down the root plate is torn and the trunk is usually damaged. There is nothing left to rescue.
A rootball that comes out unprepared dries within hours and the tree rarely recovers. Call us before a shovel goes near it — that one phone call is the difference between a sale and firewood.
Browse the stock list, or tell us what you are after and we will keep an eye out. Every tree is one of one, so if it is listed, it exists.
Access for the truck, overhead and underground services, ground conditions, and whether the tree suits the aspect. We use satellite imagery first, then come out.
Tree, transport, crane if needed, and installation — quoted together. No surprises on the day.
Lifted, placed, backfilled, staked and watered in. Usually a single day on site.
A written watering and establishment schedule for the first two summers, and a phone number if something looks wrong.
One clear picture of the whole tree from a few metres back, plus your suburb. That is genuinely all we need to start. Builders, demolition crews and homeowners all come to us the same way.
If it is on our list and it is sound, we are interested. If it is not, we will say so rather than waste your time.
We check access, root run, services and whether it will survive the lift. No charge, no obligation.
You keep the $4,000–6,000 a removal would have cost you. We wear the machinery, transport and risk.
Into the yard at Osborne, or straight to a buyer. Either way it goes back in the ground instead of through a chipper.
Because we're not removing it — we're buying it. You lose a problem, we gain stock, and a tree that took thirty years to grow doesn't end up as woodchip.
Every install is a tree that was three days from a chipper. These are a few from the last twelve months.
Talk to us about yoursThe yard is at Osborne. Call ahead and Peter will walk you round it, tell you far more about each tree than you asked for, and be honest about what will and won't work on your block. If you'd rather just have a look first, come to one of our public open days — dates are in the Instagram bio.