The best eucalyptus seed packets, compared.
Top pick: SAFLAX Tasmanian bluegum with soil Best value: SAFLAX Tasmanian bluegum seeds – Best value on a different ASIN: 100 named seeds at about £4.55, 3.4 from 32 reviews. RHS H3, so a mild coast or a protected pot, not a cold inland tree. Updated 21 October 2026.
Eucalyptus seeds on amazon.co.uk are packets for an evergreen gum, bought for silver foliage, a fast tree, or stems for a vase, not as a culinary herb. Eucalyptus parvula, small-leaved gum, is RHS hardiness H5, so it is the named packet that can live outdoors through most British winters. Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus camaldulensis are RHS H3, which means a mild or coastal garden, not a cold inland plot. Unnamed green packets and rainbow gum do not tell you enough to plant against a house. Which named packets can stay outside is set out on [hardy eucalyptus in the UK](/hub/herb-seeds/eucalyptus-seeds/sub/eucalyptus-seeds-hardy-uk). Prices and stars are from the amazon.co.uk pages. It is not a culinary herb, and it is not a scheduled vegetable. Seed certification covers the main agricultural and vegetable species, not these packets. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 still requires the goods to match their description. A number on one seller is a claim, not a germination guarantee.
Eucalyptus seeds on amazon.co.uk are packets for an evergreen gum, bought for silver foliage, a fast tree, or stems for a vase, not as a culinary herb.
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This SAFLAX kit uses the same Tasmanian bluegum name, Eucalyptus globulus bicostata, with 100 seeds plus coconut-fibre substrate at £5.25. The star line is 4.2 from 14, the highest rating in the file, yet the extracted reviews are from Spain rather than the UK. One of those reviewers counted roughly 15 seedlings from four packets, about 400 seeds. The praise in that extract is a padded envelope and a bonus item. The page still prints 65 cm as the height and claims the oil keeps all pests away. You pay £0.70 more than the seed-only packet for the fibre, which helps only if you do not already have a fine, free-draining compost.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want this blue gum and a small amount of coconut-fibre compost in the same order.
Less suitable: A cold garden, or a cupboard that already has seed compost.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Eucalyptus globulus bicostata, the same Tasmanian bluegum name as the seed-only SAFLAX packet. Brand: SAFLAX.
How many seeds are listed?
100 seeds, plus coconut-fibre potting substrate.
What height and sowing medium does the listing give?
The height field says 65 cm. The sowing medium is coconut-fibre potting substrate.
Just Seed’s Silver Plate packet holds 10 seeds at £4.15, and the amazon.co.uk line is 4.0 from 18 reviews. The seller states Defra registration 7291. UK reviewers mention a resealable bag and delivery on time, while others say the pack feels small once postage is the main cost. Germination is the recurring complaint: a UK buyer got only two seedlings and they stayed tiny, and a German review says seedlings came up and then died. The listing does not give a Latin name, and the height field is 65 cm. An organic line sits under material features, which is not a germination figure. You are buying a small floristry-style packet, not a named hardy tree.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a small foliage packet from a UK seller and you accept that only a couple of plants may appear.
Less suitable: An outdoor tree for a cold garden, or a large seed count.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Eucalyptus Silver Plate. The listing gives no Latin binomial. Brand: Just Seed.
How many seeds are listed?
10 seeds. The count agrees across the listing.
What height and sowing medium does the listing give?
The listed height is 65 cm. The listing does not state a sowing medium.
SAFLAX sells 100 seeds of Eucalyptus globulus bicostata, titled Tasmanian bluegum, at £4.55 with instructions and no compost in the box. The amazon.co.uk line is 3.4 from 32 reviews, the largest file in this set, but only one extracted review is from the UK, and that buyer reported good, fast germination. A Spanish review says not one seed came up, another says the stems were so thin they snapped, and an Italian reviewer found the care legend only in German. The height field prints 65 cm, which is not the size of a blue gum, and a listing sentence claims the oil keeps all pests away. In this capture it is the best value when you garden on a mild coast or you will keep the plant in a protected pot, and a weak choice for a cold inland plot.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You are on a mild coast or you will protect a pot, and you want the most named seed for the money in this set.
Less suitable: A frost hollow, or an order where you also need the coconut-fibre substrate.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Eucalyptus globulus bicostata, sold as Tasmanian bluegum. Brand: SAFLAX. The RHS class for E. globulus is H3.
How many seeds are listed?
100 seeds. Compost is not in the box. Instructions are included.
What height and sowing medium does the listing give?
The height field says 65 cm, which is not the mature size of a blue gum. The sowing medium is not included.
SAFLAX lists 200 seeds of Eucalyptus camaldulensis, river red gum, at £4.55, which is the highest seed count at that price in this set. The star line is 3.4 from 4 reviews, and both extracted texts are from Italy: one calls the packet perfect, the other reports not one seedling after following the instructions. The RHS class for this species is H3, so a cold inland winter sits outside what that rating describes. The height field again says 65 cm. Two hundred seeds look generous until that single failed sowing is most of the story the extract actually contains.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a large count of named river red gum seed and you can give it a mild, sheltered site.
Less suitable: You are choosing on review volume, or you need an H5 gum.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, river red gum. Brand: SAFLAX. The RHS class is H3.
How many seeds are listed?
200 seeds. Instructions are included. Compost is not in the box.
What height and sowing medium does the listing give?
The height field says 65 cm. The sowing medium is not included.
Unwins’ Houseplant Eucalyptus Baby Blue is the cheapest line in the set at £3.49, with 3.0 from 2 reviews and no review text in the extract. The Amazon title does not say seeds, the unit count is 1, and the seed quantity is not on the page, so you cannot tell how many chances are in the packet. There is no Latin binomial in this extract. A bullet calls it easy to grow and high yielding, and nothing in the file measures either claim. It sits with pot and indoor foliage, not with a border tree, and the thin listing is the reason the score stays at 28.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You are growing silver foliage in a bright room or a large pot and you already accept a thin Amazon listing.
Less suitable: An outdoor specimen, or any order where you need a stated seed count before you pay.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Eucalyptus Baby Blue. The extract gives no Latin binomial. Brand: Unwins. The Amazon title does not say seeds.
How many seeds are listed?
The extract does not state a seed quantity. The unit count is 1.
What height and sowing medium does the listing give?
The listing does not state a height or a sowing medium.
SaatPilot lists 50 seeds of Eucalyptus parvula, small-leaved gum, at £4.99, with spring sowing, full sun and an outdoor position on the page. The height field says 800 cm, which is the only tree-scale figure in this set, though the RHS puts the species above 12 metres, so you still need a coppice plan if the plot is small. There is no star line and no review text in the amazon.co.uk extract, so you cannot treat the packet as something other buyers have already proved. One feature line is in German, “Niedriger Wartungsaufwand”, which does not tell you how to sow. It is the top pick here when you want the named H5 gum for a typical British winter, and a poor match if you wanted a rated houseplant packet.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want named seed for a gum that can stay outside through a typical British winter, and you will coppice if the plot cannot take a full-sized tree.
Less suitable: You need buyer reviews before you sow, or you want foliage for a bright room rather than a garden tree.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Eucalyptus parvula, small-leaved gum. Brand: SaatPilot. The Latin name is on the listing.
How many seeds are listed?
50 seeds.
Does the listing say indoors, outdoors, or full sun?
Outdoor, full sun, with spring as the sowing window. The listed height is 800 cm.
Ipsa sells 20 seeds of Eucalyptus deglupta at £4.42, and the title also says garden plants even though the product line is seed. There is no star rating in the extract. The sowing window runs from January to December indoors and from April to August outdoors, with partial shade and a listed height of 65 cm. Rainbow gum is a tropical species; the RHS does not give it an H5 rating. Twenty seeds at this price undercut the unnamed green packs, but the bark in a photo is not a plan for a UK winter outside. Treat the outdoor months as a listing window, not as hardiness.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want named rainbow-gum seed to try indoors, knowing it is not a hardy border tree.
Less suitable: A tree that stays outside through a British winter.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Eucalyptus deglupta, rainbow gum. Brand: Seeds & Plants Shop by Ipsa. The RHS does not give this species an H5 rating.
How many seeds are listed?
20 seeds. The title also says garden plants. The product line is seed.
Does the listing say indoors, outdoors, or full sun?
Indoors from January to December, and outdoors from April to August. Sun is partial shade. The height field is 65 cm.
Evanuha lists 80 rainbow eucalyptus seeds at £8.99, with full sun, indoor or outdoor use, and a year-round sowing line. There is no Latin binomial and no star rating. The care copy calls the seed high quality and easy, including the spelling “eay to care”, and says it is packed for this season and the next. At £8.99 you are at the top of this set’s prices for a common name that does not tell you the hardiness. The Ipsa packet names Eucalyptus deglupta and costs £4.42 for 20 seeds, so the larger count here does not buy a clearer plant.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You specifically want a large rainbow-seed count and you will keep the plants frost-free.
Less suitable: A named hardy gum, or a packet under £5.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Rainbow eucalyptus. The listing gives no Latin binomial. Brand: Evanuha.
How many seeds are listed?
80 seeds. The piece count matches the title. There is no star line.
Does the listing say indoors, outdoors, or full sun?
Indoor or outdoor, full sun, with a year-round sowing line. No height is stated.
Evanuha’s green packet says 50 eucalyptus tree seeds at £7.99, for outdoors, full sun and year-round sowing. The species line is only “green eucalyptus”, so you cannot match an H5 or H3 class. The unit count on the listing is 1 while the piece count is 50. There is no star line. The same image URL appears on the Buy4seeds listing at £8.99. The care text mentions well-drained soil, seed in contact with the soil, and regular water, which is a generic note rather than a chill and a deep cell. You learn less here than from a named packet near £5.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You already know which gum you are growing and this packet is only a top-up. The listing itself does not name the species.
Less suitable: A first packet for a UK garden.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Green eucalyptus. The listing gives no Latin binomial. Brand: Evanuha.
How many seeds are listed?
The title says 50 seeds. The unit count on the listing is 1.
Does the listing say indoors, outdoors, or full sun?
Outdoor and full sun, with a year-round sowing line. No height is stated.
Buy4seeds titles 50 green eucalyptus seeds for home gardens, pots and outdoor growing at £8.99. The unit count and the number of items are both 1, so the 50 is not confirmed by the catalogue count. Country of origin is given as the USA, and there is no star line and no binomial. The sowing window is described as the appropriate growing season, with no months. It shares an image URL with the £7.99 Evanuha green packet, which makes the extra pound hard to justify from this file. A mention of pots does not identify the plant.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Only a buyer who has already identified the species somewhere other than this listing.
Less suitable: Anyone who needs a hardiness class before sowing.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Green eucalyptus. The listing gives no Latin binomial. Brand: Buy4seeds. Country of origin is given as the USA.
How many seeds are listed?
The title says 50. The unit count and the number of items are both 1.
Does the listing say indoors, outdoors, or full sun?
The title and bullets say pots and outdoor growing. Sun is not stated. No sowing months are given.
Kondracho’s listing says 100 green eucalyptus plant seeds at £8.99, while the unit count is 1. There is no Latin name, no height, no sun line and no star rating. The bullets say the packet is seeds only, carefully selected, for beginners and experienced gardeners, and that is the whole specification. At this price the named 100-seed SAFLAX blue gum is £4.55, so you pay about twice as much and learn less about the plant. The score stays at 5 because the packet does not identify a species and the counts disagree.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Not a first choice in this comparison. The listing does not name a gum.
Less suitable: Anyone matching a packet to a UK winter or a stated mature height.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Green eucalyptus. The listing gives no Latin binomial. Brand: kondracho.
How many seeds are listed?
The title says 100. The unit count on the listing is 1.
What height and sowing medium does the listing give?
The listing does not state a height or a sowing medium.
Punikondra lists 25 green eucalyptus tree seeds at £8.99, the same shelf price as packs that claim 50 or 100 pieces. The unit count is 1. A feature line says growth depends on soil temperature and watering, and that the packet is seed rather than plants. There is no binomial and no rating. Twenty-five unnamed seeds at the top of this price band give you fewer chances and no hardiness class. The score matches the other unnamed clash at £8.99 because the missing species matters more than the printed count.
Pros
Cons
Best for: A buyer who only wanted a very small unnamed trial and does not mind the price per seed.
Less suitable: A named gum, or anyone comparing seed count with the packets at £4.55 to £4.99.
Specifications
Common questions
Which plant does the listing name?
Green eucalyptus. The listing gives no Latin binomial. Brand: punikondra.
How many seeds are listed?
The title says 25. The unit count on the listing is 1.
What height and sowing medium does the listing give?
The listing does not state a height or a sowing medium.
Scores use the twelve amazon.co.uk listings in this comparison, the GBP shelf prices and star lines on those pages, and the RHS hardiness class where the packet names a species. Shelf date 19 October 2026. This is not a laboratory test. A star line with no review text does not outrank a named H5 packet. Seven listings had no star line. Weights sum to 100. The highest score is the top pick. The best-value badge is a different ASIN: the named packet with the stronger seed count and price among reviewed listings.
Species fit for a UK buyer
35%Named Eucalyptus parvula (RHS H5) scores 35. A named H3 binomial, E. globulus bicostata or E. camaldulensis, scores 18. A floristry common name with no binomial scores 12. Named E. deglupta scores 8. Rainbow eucalyptus with no binomial scores 4. Unnamed green seed scores 0.
Packet clarity
20%An agreed seed count scores higher than a title count that clashes with the unit count. Two or more real sowing fields score higher than one. A height that is not the repeated 65 cm line scores when it is at least tree-scale. A title that does not say seeds is capped. The unsupported line that oil keeps all pests away is a deduction.
Review evidence
30%No star line scores 0. Otherwise the stars are scaled and a band is added for the review count. Reviews only from outside the UK are reduced. A mixed file with a single UK text is reduced less. A clear germination failure in the extract is a deduction. A star line with no review text is capped. The band cannot go below 0.
Price and count
15%A named packet at £3.49–£4.99 with 50 or more seeds scores 15. The same band with fewer seeds, or an unknown count, scores lower. The £5.25 substrate kit scores 8. Unnamed or rainbow packs at £7.99–£8.99 score 2. This block is why the £4.55 blue gum is best value, on a different ASIN from the top pick.
Choose the Latin name and the hardiness class before the seed count. A 65 cm height field is not a mature gum, and a year-round bullet is not a sowing method.
A packet of eucalyptus seed is for an evergreen Australian gum, bought for silver foliage, a fast tree, or stems for a vase. It is not a culinary herb, and it is not a scheduled vegetable. GOV.UK seed certification covers the main agricultural and vegetable species, not these packets. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 still requires the goods to match their description. A Defra number on one seller is a claim, not a germination guarantee.
Eucalyptus deglupta is a tropical species. The RHS does not give it an H5 rating. An outdoor month range on a listing is not hardiness.
The RHS puts E. globulus at 30 metres or more and E. parvula above 12 metres. SaatPilot’s 800 cm is the only tree-scale figure here, and it is still short of that maximum. Plan to coppice if you want a shrub.
Unnamed green packs at £7.99–£8.99 often clash on the seed count and give you no species. Named packets near £4.55–£4.99 tell you more. A Defra number on one seller does not certify every packet.
No Latin name means you cannot match an RHS hardiness class. Eucalyptus parvula is H5 and is the outdoor name in this set. Eucalyptus gunnii is also H5 on the RHS page, and it is not a named packet here. Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus camaldulensis are H3, for a mild or coastal garden, not a cold inland plot. Rainbow gum, Eucalyptus deglupta, is tropical. The RHS records it as not native to Britain or Ireland and does not give it an H5 rating.
Several listings print 65 cm. The RHS puts E. globulus at 30 metres or more and E. parvula above 12 metres. SaatPilot’s 800 cm is the only tree-scale figure in the set, and it is still short of the RHS maximum, so coppice if you want a shrub and keep large trees off buildings. Named packets at about £4.15–£4.99 hold 10 to 200 seeds. SAFLAX sells the same blue gum as seed only at £4.55 or with coconut-fibre substrate at £5.25.
Three typical situations, each with a recommendation from this comparison.
You want a named gum that can stay outside through a typical British winter, and you will coppice if the plot cannot take a full-sized tree. SaatPilot Eucalyptus parvula is the top pick: 50 seeds at about £4.99, RHS H5, with no amazon.co.uk star line in the extract.
You can give an H3 gum a mild site or bring a pot under cover. SAFLAX Eucalyptus globulus bicostata is the best value: 100 seeds at about £4.55, 3.4 from 32 reviews. It is not the packet for a frost hollow.
You want silver leaves in a bright room or a large pot, not a border tree. Unwins Eucalyptus Baby Blue is the houseplant line at about £3.49. The Amazon title does not say seeds, and the extract has 3.0 from 2 reviews with no review text.
The top pick is SaatPilot Eucalyptus parvula at about £4.99. It scores 68, the highest here, as 50 named seeds of the only RHS H5 gum in the set. The extract has no star line, so the score is species fit, not a buyer rating. Best value is SAFLAX Eucalyptus globulus bicostata seed only, a different ASIN, at about £4.55 for 100 seeds, rated 3.4 from 32 reviews. That species is H3. Skip SaatPilot if you need reviews before you sow, or if you wanted foliage for a bright room. Skip the SAFLAX blue gum if the garden is a frost hollow, or if you also need the coconut-fibre substrate.
SAFLAX Tasmanian bluegum seeds
Best value on a different ASIN: 100 named seeds at about £4.55, 3.4 from 32 reviews. RHS H3, so a mild coast or a protected pot, not a cold inland tree.
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