We are using our buying power to drop the price of over 1000 high-quality trees, shrubs and other plants this summer.
Discounts are available now, online and in store, until 29th February or while stocks last. View the best of each category below, followed by a link to all discounted plants in that category.
Hello Hello Plants is an online plant superstore based in Melbourne, Australia. We maintain our own fleet so we can deliver door-to-door all over Victoria. We stock a select range of the plants you see online at our physical retail nursery in Campbellfield (sadly they can’t all fit). We offer a one-on-one garden design service, and our resident garden guru Chris has over 60 years experience in the plant word and is passionate about educating people on plants & gardening.
He’s trying to lure people away from the “Big Stores” with 10 Mind-Bending specials!
Hello, Hello. The big problem we have is that when the New Year’s sales come on, people go to the big stores and it’s as quiet as a tomb out here.
I’m desperate. What I’ve done is I’ve put on 10 of the best specials and you can see ’em at Hello Hello.
10 GREAT reasons to rush down to Hello Hello in this new year!
If you go to my website, you’ll find 10 fantastic reasons why you should be rushing down to Hello Hello for our New Year’s Sale. So bugger off with the big stores and come down to Hello Hello. The 10 x HOT Summer Specials are listed below linked to our website:
In this week’s article I’d like to tell you the story of how Weeping Maples come about. Now Japanese Maples tend to be a little bit expensive. They’re often a main feature tree in a garden. So what happens is someone grows a normal green leaf Japanese Maple for perhaps 5 years from a seed. Now after it’s reached about 1.5 metres tall and it’s forked, the grower then grafts a new head on each fork so it’s now a double-headed Weeping Maple. Then they would grow it for another 2 years in the field to get some more size on it. Finally, they would grow it for one more year in a pot. So you end up with an 8-year-old Weeping Maple.
Now the beauty of this process is that with two heads is you get more width. The Maple really spreads out wide as each head grows away from the other. You also get a crisscrossing of branches, which makes the head extra thick. This is one of the things that people really love about Weeping Maples is the height.
But you can grow them much lower. So if the grower chooses to do the grafting on the fork of the tree when it’s only 2 or 3 years old and they graft it low, then it will tend to stay low. So it might only reach around 1 metre tall.
The other Weeping Maple that wasn’t grafted till it was 5 years old and already over 1.5 metres tall, then that will probably grow to around 3 metres tall over about 8-10 years. So if you had a big garden space or a really big pot or a courtyard and you wanted a nice big tree, maybe something you could sit under, then a tall, high grafted Weeping Maple has much more value.
You can also get single-headed Weeping Maples and these can be high graft or low graft, so again, that will decide how tall they grow.
One species of Weeping Maple which differs a lot from the others is the Inaba Shidare. It seems to be able to take a lot more heat and sun. It doesn’t shrivel up or burn up in the sun, so you can put it in a hot sunny spot, or you can even put it in a windy spot and it grows quickly.
The Inaba Shidare has also revolutionised Weeping Maple growing in another way and that is just how fast it grows. It can grow up to 80cm in just 12 months, whereas some of your other Weeping Maples might only grow around 10 or 15 cm in the same time.
With all that fast growth it can develop a really lovely big head that can be well over a metre in width and it will do that very quickly with a lot of strength. So they can end up being quite a monstrous beautiful Maple.
Maples can sometimes be a bit hard to get around this time in December but I managed to get a really good deal on around 500 of them in various sizes. So right now you can normally get an Inaba Shidara in a 10 inch pot for just $99, which is a good, cheap starting price on a Weeping Maple. At that price you get one with a beautiful big head on it that will grow quite tall but you can even train it with a top branch on a stake to grow even taller.
From there you can go up to a multi-headed one, that might have up to 4 heads on it making it nice and wide and that is a real work of art. Normally it would be priced at around $1,500.
But I’ve decided that from right now through to the 31st of January 2024, because I got a good deal on all these 500 Weeping Maples, that I’m going to mark them all down by 30%. Yes that’s 30% off the normal price. So the $100 priced one I just mentioned will go for just $70 and the $1500 price one, will drop to just over a thousand dollars. That makes between now and Christmas 2023, the best time to come and buy a Weeping Maple.
The other thing to realise is that if you go to some other nurseries right now, you might get a choice of 3 or 4 Japanese Maples but here you have a choice from around 500 of them.
And I’ve discovered over the years that the choice of a Weeping Japanese Maple is very personal. I remember one time a chap rang me up and said, “Look, I want a Weeping Maple. I need it for a gift and I want it to look fabulous. I want the best Weeping Maple you’ve got at any price and I really want one that is really full and bushy.”
So I carefully went all through the nursery and I picked out a really full bushy one. He paid for it with a credit card over the phone and I shipped it on a van and sent it out to him. You know what happened? He rang me up and said, “That’s no bloody good. It’s too fat and bushy!!!”
Then he said, “I want something more slimmer and taller and kind of skinnier!” So what I thought was the best Weeping Maple in the place, he rejected.
Now with pots, it’s better to plant a shorter Weeping Maple and have it hanging down the side of the pot. But if you want it to be the centrepiece of a big garden, then you want a bit of height. So it’s a really good idea that if you’ve been after a nice red Weeping Maple, that you visit a nursery that’s got some choices in terms of price, size, shape. And with my Weeping Maples, there’s only four or five people who actually grow Weeping Maples in Victoria. And I can look at most Weeping Maples and tell you who grew it. I can tell you where it came from, just by looking at it. Now in my opinion, each Weeping Maple is really a work of art and different people do it in different ways with different ideas and they end up with a different looking plant at the end.
So when you come down here and take a look at all these 500 Weeping Maples that are 30% off, you’ll see they’re all in leaf. You can see the shape, you can see the colour, you can look at the trunk, and you can look at the height of it.
Now what do you do with your Weeping Japanese Maple when you get it? Well with the Inaba Shidare particularly, it will happily live in a pot pretty much forever. This is probably true of all Japanese Maples but more so of the Inaba Shidare. So if you had a balcony or you’ve got a courtyard or something like that, as long as you use the right size pot, and you water and fertilise it regularly and you look after it, basically it will do just fine.
Now they do need a bit of calcium every couple of years, a bit of limestone basically, to keep them happy in a pot. Now as a nurseryman, I can tell you that some trees scare me in a pot. I don’t even know today how to keep a Silver Birch looking good in a pot! And I know a lot about keeping plants looking good in pots! But a Japanese Maple, watered and fertilised properly, re-potted occasionally every few years, well it is basically easy to keep it looking good.
We keep lots of Weeping Maples here and some of them have been in pots for years. And what we do is we take them up a size of pot each year, actually that’s what we’re doing right at the moment. We’re going through sorting them all and anything that needs to go up a size of pot is going up a size. Come next year they’ll be even bigger and fuller and nicer.
So basically with a Weeping Inaba Shidare Maple, if you do have a balcony or a courtyard, it is something that you can keep in a pot forever. And what it will do is it’ll become fuller, more majestic, more beautiful. You might give it a tiny trim occasionally, but basically what a lot of people do is to keep it in a pot forever.
To get really rich colour, you need to give your Weeping Maple at least half a day’s sun. The colour tends to be not quite as rich if they’re not out in the sun so just keep that in mind if it’s in a pot.
Now if you want to plant a Japanese Maple in your garden that’s also totally OK, they look lovely. When I plant one of them in the garden, I’ll tend to dig a large hole. I’ll mix in lots of potting mix and make it really good for the plant. Now with trees, a lot of people worry about roots on trees wrecking their foundations and things like that. But the great thing about a Japanese Maple is that they don’t have a particularly big or aggressive root system. So what happens is that if you just dig a hole in hard clay, the roots will not be able to really spread out beyond the size of the hole you dig.
So what I encourage my customers to do is dig massive holes, way larger than the root system, mix in a lot of potting mix so the roots can push out easily and spread out easily. Remember to plant them up nice and high with plenty of loose soil underneath them.
You can grow a Weeping Japanese Maple pretty much anywhere in Melbourne and have them looking absolutely beautiful as long as you put some effort into that hole. You have to do this because a lot of Melbourne has hard clay or hard rock, and you’ve really got to break it up and have lots of nice loose soil around their roots for them to move through.
In terms of using a Japanese Maple in different styles of gardens well you can really use them in any style. They can look very dramatic in a modern style garden. When I plant them in a modern style garden, I’ll tend to be minimalistic with what I plant around them. I did a garden design yesterday and all we did was put pebbles around the Japanese Maple and then some Black Mondo Grass and then some Lime Lava. I know it will look fabulous with its foliage contrasting with the black of the grass and the bright green of the Lime Lava.
They also work well in a very sort of traditional contemporary style garden. There you just put them in with shrubs like Azaleas and Camellias, they make that beautiful sort of classic older style garden.
Of course they are perfect for a Japanese style garden. And often when I use them in a Japanese style garden, I’ll plant them in conjunction with say a Dwarf Black Pine, like a Yatsubusa Pine or something like that. And I’ll plant it with plants that can be clipped into a nice round shape. One of my favourites is to use a Kaleidoscope Abelia which has a beautiful golden sort of foliage. You can clip that into a nice ball and have that as a lovely contrast with your nice, dark red Weeping Maple. You can also use a lot of native Australian grasses in your Japanese Garden or something like a Little Jess Dianella for the grassy effect you want.
Some people ask how much wind a Japanese Maple will take and I say well they can cope with a fair bit of wind, but if you’re somewhere really flat and open with really strong winds, like Philip Island or somewhere like that, you would have to shelter them from the wind a bit. But I’ve seen them do quite well in a lot of windy places.
Now I must say that Weeping Maples are a lot tougher than many people think. I remember I was doing a delivery in Shepparton one evening and I came to this front garden where this person had the most magnificent collection of about 30 Weeping Maples there. Magnificent. Every sort of Weeping Maple all planted properly, but it was open and it was exposed to full hot sun and they looked absolutely fabulous. So planted properly, even in a hot spot that was relatively windy, and quite open and barren, this amazing collection of Weeping Maples that had been planted correctly and looked after correctly were thriving. So I think Weeping Maples treated properly are much tougher and more versatile than people think.
I think the reason a lot of people think that Japanese Maples don’t do well in full sun, is because they’ve planted them in a very tiny hole that is too small for their roots. And so the roots never spread out and find sources of water. You get your 42 degree day in Melbourne and the plant shrivels up and dies and people say the heat killed it. But what really killed it was the tiny little hole in the clay you planted it in. That’s why, as I said earlier, you’ve got to have a nice big hole with lots of loose soil. The Maple can then spread its roots out among the soil and potting mix, while the clay holds the water at the bottom of the hole and the roots will spread out and down and take up all that moisture when it needs it on a hot day. We have literally tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of Maples in this nursery and we are not worried if it goes over 40 degrees or something, as long as they’ve got moisture, they’re fine.
Next let’s talk about the colour. I find it really interesting that if we don’t have enough red Weeping Maples in store, then even though most people are looking for the green ones, the store doesn’t do as well if we don’t have some red ones scattered throughout. I think it might be something subconscious about seeing the visual excitement of the red scattered amongst all the green that makes people interested in them. And they might plant a red Japanese Maple in their garden and still not realise that’s what’s uplifting to them when they look at their garden.
What I find interesting is that if you Google Inaba Shidare Weeping Maples you’ll see Maples that are all almost blacky purple, and then you’ll see them right through to a brilliant scarlet red. Now what happens with your Inaba Shidare is that basically there’s a journey that they go through. That journey starts off with deep, deep, blacky purple as they emerge in spring, and then they sort of go into more and more of a red zone and then they go through purpley reds and then they go to brownie reds and then just before they drop at the end of the season, you have brilliant scarlet. So if you Google then, what you’ll be amazed by is how many different colours you see and that’s because they have all been photographed at different times of the year. And there’s like a colour journey that you’ll go through when you search for them online. Now the one colour you might NOT see is actually green!
To make sure you get the full spectrum of colour throughout the year with your Japanese Maple, make sure you water them well because if you don’t, when it comes to autumn, instead of giving this brilliant scarlet red, they’ll just go brown. It’s like the plant is punishing you for not watering it properly!
In Closing
So there you have it. The full story on Weeping Japanese Maples.
Remember right now until the 31st of January 2024, we have 30% off on all of our 500 or so Weeping Maple (Inaba Shidare) and so you can get a $100 one for just $70 and a $1500 one for just over a thousand. They make great gifts for your mum or daughter-in-law or whoever. Grow ‘em in a pot, grow ‘em in the garden, hey why not give one to yourself? It will give you years of pleasure.
Feeling inspired to create your own garden, but want some expert advice? Try our one-on-one garden design service with Chris. Together you’ll come up with a selection of plants along with a layout plan that gives you the look you want, as well as being suitable for your local soil and conditions.
It so happens that this month we are relocating 1.5 acres of our plant growing and storage space. The new location is hundreds of kilometres away, and with current fuel prices, some plants, even big trees, are too expensive to move. We would rather practically give them away to our customers than pay the cost in money and to the environment.
So we are selling thousands of plants for $1, $2 or $3. In some cases that’s less than the value of the pot they come in.
The catch? They’re available in store only, on a first come, first served basis. We are not offering free or even paid delivery for these plants, so you will have to transport them home yourself.
All plants included in our Clearance Sale will be marked with a colour code showing whether they are $1, $2 or $3.
Most of these plants are what we call eco grade. That means they are less than perfect and need some love and care to return to their full glory.
The Green Thursday Sale is extended to Sunday 3rd of December. In store only, get thousands of plants for $1, $2 or $3. In some cases that’s less than the value of the pot they come in.
“Should we do Black Friday?” Chris wondered last week.
Sounding more like a bush fire disaster than a shopping event, this post-Thanksgiving US sales day has nevertheless made it’s way into Aussie hearts and minds. It’s all over the TV, Cyber Monday too. (Don’t think AI apocalypse, think one day of crazy online bargains.)
“Nah,” he said. “I want to do Green Thursday!”
See, it so happens that this month we are relocating 1.5 acres of our plant growing and storage space. The new location is hundreds of kilometres away, and with current fuel prices, some plants, even big trees, are too expensive to move. We would rather practically give them away to our customers than pay the cost in money and to the environment.
The catch? They’re available in store only, on a first come, first served basis. We are not offering free or even paid delivery for these plants, so you will have to transport them home yourself.
All plants included in our Green Thursday Sale will be marked with a colour code showing whether they are $1, $2 or $3.
Most of these plants are what we call eco grade. That means they are less than perfect and need some love and care to return to their full glory.
Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is a thing, Chris decided! Get 30% off fabulous feature trees.
To help a grower out in need, he’s arranged bulk purchase of some of the largest and most beautiful feature trees we’ve seen in recent years. Worth up to $900, a selection of these feature trees are heavily discounted for one day only on Cyber Monday (27th November ’23).
All our usual delivery and pick-up options will be available for Cyber Monday purchases, including free delivery for orders over $300.
The discount feature trees will only be available online. The exact range appears below. Discounts are as marked, and are available now until midnight Monday 27th November ’23.
Have you ever heard of a place or item referred to as “exclusive”? The plants in our Garden’s for Everyone range are designed to be the opposite. We want to make it possible for anyone to be able to create a beautiful garden. So we have been working hard to make this range of beautiful plants as cheap as possible this spring.
Where you might pay $14.99 for a similar plant in a 6″ (14cm) pot in one of the big stores, the 6″ plants in this range are only $5.99. Big bushy plants in 8″ (20cm) pots are only $10.99. In many cases, that means we are selling them to the public for even less than they would normally cost us to buy from a grower.
While we are striving to keep a permanent range of cheap plants available, these items are only while stocks last. View the full range below, or jump to:
We are clearing dozens of popular indoor plants with a sale at 30% off the marked price. This offer is only available in store at our Campbellfield nursery. There is still a great selection of indoor plants available, so we are extending the sale through winter 2023, while stocks last.
In the winter months, our shed where we keep our indoor plants gets quite chilly. Most indoor plants originate in warm tropical climates, and would much rather be tucked up nice and toasty in your lovely homes! So we want to send them home with you to create paradise together.
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All indoor plants at our Campbellfield nursery are included in the sale. However they are not the exact same varieties available on our website, and they’ll be flying out the door faster than we can keep track of them!
So the best thing you can do is plan a visit to our Campbellfield nursery and have a look at the range. Visit us at 1477 Sydney Rd, Campbellfield, VIC, open 8:30am – 5pm every day.
Below are just some of the varieties of green plant babies hoping for a nice warm forever home, as of the launch of the indoor plant sale:
Whoa, that’s a huge variety of house plants, available in store only.
Can I still buy indoor plants online?
Yes you can! Some fabulous indoor plants don’t mind a bit of cold, and so we will have them available online over the whole of winter, for delivery direct to your home or workplace, or pick up at our Campbellfield nursery. These also make a great gift.
Here are just some popular indoor plants available online:
We have marked our more cold shy indoors out of stock online over winter, as we don’t want to watch them suffer in our dispatch facility waiting to be picked up or delivered. Visit us at our Campbellfield nursery (we really do have the biggest range of plants in Victoria) and browse the full range available instore.
If you have your heart set on a fabulous and unique indoor plant, you can request to be notified when it’s back in stock on the product page of that plant. Navigate to the plant and the size(s) you’re interested and fill in your name and email, and you’ll be notified as soon as it’s back in stock.
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How long will the sale last?
The indoor plant sale is running in store at our Campbellfield nursery until Sunday the 6th of August or until stocks last.
If you own an investment, rental or any income producing property in Australia, plants purchased as “replacement” for existing plants can be used as a 100% tax deduction in the year of expenditure.
This is a very handy deduction, as having a nice and useful landscaping around an income producing property will always make it more desirable as a rental proposition and much more valuable if you decide to sell.
All gardens will benefit from regular replacement of plants. Over the years, plants can become diseased, damaged or even die because of drought or neglect, or become damaged from lawn mowing & weed spraying. If maintenance has been neglected, they can become too overgrown to be cut back and still look good.
Plants that are not a tax deduction for your Investment Property
Where new plants are added as part of a brand new landscaping, these are treated as a cost that adds value to the property. They are seen to be an improvement to the property rather than a repair or replacement. The owner of the property can add the cost of this to their capital gains cost base, thereby reducing their capital gains tax liability upon sale of the property. However, these plants do not provide the owner with an immediate tax deduction.
General Disclaimer: This tax advice is of a general nature and any person wanting to get a tax deduction, by purchasing plants for their commercial or investment property, should seek independent advice from their own accountant.
Why refresh your rental property’s garden?
A rental unit front garden recently refreshed with new plants, including Dwarf Agapanthus.
The most beautiful of gardens can become tired or ugly without the addition of fresh plants. Now’s the time to take a look at your rental or investment property, and see if the gardens are still appealing. If you’re not sure what the solution is, email us a photo, or submit your photos as part of our free garden design service, and we will help you sort out what to do.
At Hello Hello Plants, we understand that most investment property owners require hardy low maintenance plants that are well priced. We can help you put together a planting plan that is tailored to your exact needs.
If you wish to make a purchase prior to the end of the financial year on June 30th, but you are not able to take delivery of your plants or plant them yet, we are happy to store your plants for up to two months and then deliver them anywhere in the Melbourne metropolitan area for $34.90, or free for orders over $300.
Best plants for investment properties: Low Maintenance
Low maintenance plants are key when you’re landscaping an investment property. Unless your tenants are paying a premium for a gorgeous garden and perhaps even landscaping services provided by you and included in the rent, the work to maintain it is up to them. If you don’t choose easy to maintain plants, you’re asking your tenants to do a lot of work to keep the place looking good. Unless you end up with renters from heaven, it’s unlikely this will happen.
If you want to ensure the landscaping at your investment property will stay looking good with minimum upkeep, but don’t know which plants to choose, check out our handy article on the Top 10 Best Plants for a Low Maintenance Garden.
Selling your house? Add thousands of dollars of value with a garden makeover
Customers Drew and Bri from Point Cook added $54,000 to the value of their home by only spending $2000 on plants at Hello Hello Plants.
You can DIY your property’s garden upgrade by taking advantage of incredibly cheap prices on plants that are featured in our weekly specials, as well as the Bulk Buys we have on offer. The trick is to not spend too much money, but do it wisely on plants that give you a real bang for your buck. Check out our article 10 Tips to Save on Your Landscaping Budget.
But in many cases if you are preparing for sale, what you need is some expert advice and help. Take advantage of our Garden Design service and add thousands of dollars to the value of your property at a fraction of the price. You supply the measurements and photos and we’ll do the rest.
To encourage you to jazz up your garden before the EOFY (end of financial year), we also generally have an End of Financial Year Plant Clearance Sale, starting mid June.
We all know how much mum loves her plants (I mean who doesn’t!), so getting her a little plant baby to show her how much you appreciate her is a sure-fire way to make mum happy.
Even with Mother’s Day right around the corner, there is still time to come to the nursery and get some lovely plants to treat your mum, grandmother or daughter. We have a big range of indoor plants to brighten up the kitchen or living room, some fragrant flowers, flowering trees and so much more at very low prices!
[two_third_last]The perfect, convenient last minute gift for mum if you’re out of time is a gift voucher. Our gift vouchers come in sizes from $25 – $1000, and can be used on our website or in store at our nursery. To get a gift voucher for plants & more, you can:
If you’re still struggling to find mum the perfect gift, and want something more exciting than a gift voucher, why not give mum a brand new garden! Whether mum has a single garden bed or area that needs refreshing, a small courtyard to liven up, or an entire backyard that needs re-doing, this gift includes both a interesting experience as well as actual plants. Our new Garden Design Gift Packages include:
A one-on-one Garden Design consultation with Chris at our Campbellfield store, or via video call. Chris will go over your mum’s unique garden situation and helping her to put together a personalised design that she will love, the list of plants needed to implement it, and a plan of action to carry it out.
PLUS plants to the value of the gift voucher, to go towards making her dream garden a reality..
Spend over $100 in store by Sunday th 14th of May 2023 and receive a FREEPhilodendron ‘Hope’ 8″ pot! Normally worth $29.99, we’re giving away this gorgeous indoor plant absolutely FREE with any purchase of $100 or more.
That includes purchasing a $100 Gift Voucher for mum as well, or the deposit for a Garden Design with Chris (plants not included) or a selection of beautiful plants of your choice of up to $100.
Top Outdoor plants for mum!
Forget the boring common bunches of flowers that everybody buys, and get something that will undoubtedly make mum happy for years to come! Here is a selection of the best fragrant, beautiful flowering plants that keep on giving!
A ‘Desperate’ Chris
From there you can go up to a multi-headed one, that might have up to 4 heads on it making it nice and wide and that is a real work of art. Normally it would be priced at around $1,500.
But I’ve decided that from right now through to the 31st of January 2024, because I got a good deal on all these 500 
Now what do you do with your Weeping Japanese Maple when you get it? Well with the 
Now if you want to plant a Japanese Maple in your garden that’s also totally OK, they look lovely. When I plant one of them in the garden, I’ll tend to dig a large hole. I’ll mix in lots of potting mix and make it really good for the plant. Now with trees, a lot of people worry about roots on trees wrecking their foundations and things like that. But the great thing about a Japanese Maple is that they don’t have a particularly big or aggressive root system. So what happens is that if you just dig a hole in hard clay, the roots will not be able to really spread out beyond the size of the hole you dig.
Of course they are perfect for a 
I think the reason a lot of people think that Japanese Maples don’t do well in full sun, is because they’ve planted them in a very tiny hole that is too small for their roots. And so the roots never spread out and find sources of water. You get your 42 degree day in Melbourne and the plant shrivels up and dies and people say the heat killed it. But what really killed it was the tiny little hole in the clay you planted it in. That’s why, as I said earlier, you’ve got to have a nice big hole with lots of loose soil. The Maple can then spread its roots out among the soil and 
What I find interesting is that if you Google 
To make sure you get the full spectrum of colour throughout the year with your Japanese Maple, make sure you water them well because if you don’t, when it comes to autumn, instead of giving this brilliant scarlet red, they’ll just go brown. It’s like the plant is punishing you for not watering it properly!
