Azura Eucalyptus Trees

Eucalyptus gunnii 'Azura': Shrubby Cider Gum. 3-Litre Pot-Grown Plants

Cider Gum Eucalyptus is normally a fast-growing tree, but Azura is a bushy form with less vigour that suits most people's gardens. It has the same fragrant new foliage so beloved by flower arrangers.

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Features

• Evergreen, fragrant leaves.
• Blue-ish new foliage.
• Bushy habit
• Height x Spread to 8m x 4m
• Year Round Delivery.

Growing Eucalyptus gunnii

Rated at H5 hardiness, it will grow in most locations in the UK that receive full sun and are sheltered. Tolerant of a range of soils and conditions, but is happiest in a fertile, neutral-acid soil.

If left to its own devices, it will quickly become a very large tree, so, unless you want that, tough love is the best way to deal with it: keep it hard-pruned as a shrub from the start. This will promote new growth carrying the loveliest immature leaves. It coppices especially well (cut to a low stool), and could be pollarded as a lollipop with a little extra pruning (cut back to a trunk about 1.5-2 metres high).

In Your Garden Design

Wherever you want magical blue foliage to fill a sunny corner, this is the right choice! 

Did You Know?

The eagle-eyed French Forestry Commission spotted this variety as a reject for forestry but a keeper for the garden.