Syzygium australe SAN01 PBR 'Straight & Narrow'™ - Lilly Pilly

Syzygium australe 'Straight & Narrow'™ — the ultimate solution for gardeners with limited space requiring screening. This premium registered plant variety (PBR) is specifically bred for tight and narrow spaces, delivering a slender dense habit that creates effective screening and hedging without consuming too much of your precious space. 

Spacing: Plant every 50cm apart for a faster forming hedge

Growth size: 5-8m h x 1-1.5m w

Positioning: Full sun to Shade

Perfect for: Narrow Hedging, Narrow Screening, Topiary

Growth Rate: Fast, but slightly less fast than other lilly pilly varieties

Key Features:
Straight & Narrow showcases a naturally tight, columnar growth form that requires minimal lateral spreading. Unlike standard Lilly Pillys that can become wide and bulky, this variety maintains a remarkably slender profile while still delivering dense foliage coverage. It produces delicate fluffy white flowers in summer, followed by attractive pink berries that persist into autumn, providing year-round evergreen foliage.

Perfect for Narrow Spaces:
This remarkable variety solves a common gardening challenge — creating effective privacy screening in confined spaces. Whether you're working with narrow garden beds, tight gaps along fencelines, or small properties where every centimetre counts, the Straight & Narrow delivers professional-grade results in tight quarters. The slender form makes it ideal for creating narrow hedges, screening along driveways, defining boundaries in compact gardens, and achieving maximum privacy impact with minimal footprint.

Growth:
Mature height reaches approx 5-8 metres with a remarkably narrow width of just 1-1.5 metres, creating an impressive vertical presence without sprawl.

For optimal hedge formation, space plants approximately 50cm apart for rapid screen establishment or further apart for a slower forming hedge. 

As these are a naturally compact variety they do take longer to form into a hedge by width than other lilly pilly varieties, hence closer plant spacing is recommended.  

Low-Maintenance Advantages:
The naturally compact, slender habit means significantly less maintenance compared to other Lilly Pilly varieties. You'll spend less time pruning lateral growth and more time enjoying your beautiful screen. The variety is also exceptionally pest and disease resistant to psyllid, ensuring reliable, trouble-free performance year-round.

Growing Requirements:
Prefers full sun to shade positioning and highly adaptable to diverse conditions. Hardy and frost-tolerant across Australian climates. Once established, exceptionally lower-maintenance and drought-tolerant. Responds beautifully to pruning and shaping for formal hedging applications.

Why Choose Straight & Narrow?
The premium PBR status, naturally slender growth habit, fast-growing performance, dense foliage coverage, pink berry appeal, and low-maintenance characteristics combine to make the Straight & Narrow the go-to choice for discerning gardeners and landscapers seeking sophisticated screening solutions for confined spaces.

**Other varieties as a substitute - Syzygium australe 'Up and Away', Syzygium australe 'Pinnacle', Syzygium australe 'Superior' - Please ask us! 

Height Approximates in Pots for this Variety for NSW & QLD

(Please note heights in Melbourne can be shorter):

200mm - 30-50cm tall

300mm - 80-1m tall

400mm - 1.2-1.4m tall

75L - 1.6-1.8m tall

100L - 2m+tall

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