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 trees from demolition sites and replant 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. Everything else we'll quote you to remove — but we won't pretend it's worth money when it isn't.
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 treesThere's no resale market for these, so we won't insult you by pretending otherwise. We'll still remove them — you'll just get a quote rather than a cheque. Knowing this up front saves everyone a phone call.
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.
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, by appointment. 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.