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Grab your free tree in our Great Tree Giveaway!

22 July 2026

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The City of Hobart is giving away free trees to residents, businesses and community organisations in a push to grow Hobart's urban tree canopy and create a healthier, more livable city.

Applying is easy, just use the application form below.

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More than $20,000 worth of trees of all shapes and sizes will be given away, and there's a tree to suit every garden.

By taking home one of our beautiful trees you will be helping to grow Hobart's urban tree canopy and reap all the benefits trees bring to our city and suburbs.

The trees stand about 1.5m above ground and will make a bigger impact when planted and grown to provide more shade faster.

The mix of trees includes native trees and even fruit trees. 

The City of Hobart has a goal of reaching 40 per cent tree canopy cover across urban areas by 2046. 

While we have an annual tree planting program where we plant trees in our urban streets and parks we can’t reach this goal alone - we need your help to increase tree canopy on private land.

Range of free trees

Moorpark apricot (Prunus armeniaca): Popular, tasty, fruiting apricot that grows up to 4m tall and prefers well-draining soil and full sun. Prune to an open vase shape for best fruiting conditions.

Olive (Olea europaea): Hardy Mediterranean tree with silvery green foliage, growing to approximately 5m tall. Olive trees can tolerate a wide range of soils but prefer full sun.

Red Sensation pear (Pyrus communis): A variety of pear providing red fruits and red foliage for autumn colour. Prefers well draining soil and a sunny position and can grow up to 10m tall or be pruned to keep shorter.

‘Buerre Bosc’ pear tree (Pyrus communis): A popular late season variety of fresh eating pear. Grows up to 6m tall and prefers full sun and well draining soil. 

Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia): A deciduous tree with small dark green leaves, attractive bark and pendulous branches. Prefers well drained soils, will tolerate full sun or part shade and can grow up to 13m tall.

Crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia ‘Biloxi’): Ornamental deciduous tree providing a display of pink flowers through summer and orange-red foliage in autumn. Prefers well-drained soils in full sun and is drought tolerant once established, growing up to 8m tall.

Silver banksia (Banksia marginata): A Tasmanian native tree with bird-attracting cylindrical yellow flowers from spring to autumn. They can tolerate dry conditions once established and full sun or part shade, growing up to 5m tall.

‘Little Snowman’ dwarf snow gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora): A small native tree with attractive multicoloured bark, thick, waxy, blue-green foliage and flowers that feed birds, bees and butterflies. It can grow up to 7m tall and requires well-draining soil.

Lemon and Lime willow myrtle (Agonis flexuosa): A dwarf variety of the Western Australian native willow myrtle with weeping, lime green foliage. Can tolerate clay and loam soils and prefers full sun, growing up to 8m tall. 

Chinese Pistachio (Pistacia chinensis): A hardy deciduous tree with interesting pinnate foliage providing red, orange and yellow autumn colour. Can grow up to 8m tall, tolerating most soil types and preferring full sun. 

Backyard Bliss lilly pilly (Syzigium australe): A dense, fast growing native tree with lush green foliage and white flowers followed by pink berries in autumn. Tolerates a range of soil types and full or part sun. Grows up to 5m tall. 

Euky Dwarf - dwarf yellow gum (Eucalyptus leucoxylon): A native gum tree with a light, open canopy and bird-attracting flowers in pink, red, or cream from autumn through summer. Grows up to 7m tall and will tolerate clay and loam soils in sun or part shade. 

Wychwood Ruby crab-apple (Malus yunnanensis): A small ornamental deciduous tree featuring red new growth and ruby pink double blooms in spring. It can grow up to 4m tall and prefers a sunny position.

Flowering gum (Corymbia ficifolia): Western Australian native gum known for their masses of nectar rich flowers in shades of cream, pink, orange, and red followed by large decorative gum nuts. Can tolerate a range of soil types in a sunny to part shade position, and can grow up to 15m tall. 

Narrow-leaved paperbark (Melaleuca linariifolia): Paperbark native to Queensland and New South Wales, featuring small, narrow leaves and covered in clusters of fluffy white flowers in spring and summer. Prefers a wet and sunny position and can grow up to 8 metres tall.

Benefits of trees

By planting more trees you will be helping Hobart grow its urban tree canopy, bringing many benefits to the city and surrounding suburbs.

  • A bigger urban tree canopy helps cool neighbourhoods during summer months, keeping household air conditioning and other energy costs down and creating a greener, more liveable city.
  • A big, strong urban tree canopy helps limit damage from storms and heavy rains by catching rainfall before it hits hard surfaces, reducing flooding risks and pollution spilling into our rivulets.
  • Healthy tree canopies also provide much needed shelter and food for urban wildlife, and create more beautiful, liveable cities.
  • A big city tree canopy will also help keep Hobart's streets and neighbourhoods cool as the impacts of climate change increase in Tasmania.

 

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