Enjoy the colorful new growth and tropical texture of the easy-care Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina) at Nature Hills Nursery!
Nandina, also known as Sacred Bamboo, these broadleaf evergreens may be named Bamboo, but they are not related to the kind of Clumping Bamboo (Fargesia) that Pandas eat.
Find a diverse category of Bamboo bushes for sale right here at Nature Hills Nursery, learn how to use them to their fullest in your garden, and how to care for them!
When you want a well-behaved Bamboo shrub to decorate your landscape without worry, look no further than Heavenly Bamboo!
All About Nandina Heavenly Bamboo
Although a Nandina shrub isn't a true Bamboo plant, it looks quite similar! It's also extremely attractive, thanks to its thin stems and incredible coloration in its new foliage and then dramatic fall color!
Handling sun and shade, and growing in a wide range of climates and conditions, Nandina was introduced to American gardeners in the 1800s from Asia and India.
These broadleaf evergreen shrubs have beautiful spring flowers that are rich in pollen and nectar for your bees and butterflies! These become showy red berries that are persistent through winter for a dramatic show. The birds love to eat these berries and you’ll love snipping both the flowers and fruit with some of the foliage to add to your vase arrangements indoors!
Modern Nandina domestica cultivars have a compact growth habit. In mild winters, the evergreen foliage can take on some showy fall tones! The palmate leaves are delicate but stay lush year-round! In cooler climates, Nandina is semi-evergreen in some climates, and in the coldest winter snaps you will see Nandina act as deciduous shrubs and lose their foliage in the winter.
Using Nandina In Your Landscape
One of these lacy tropical-looking shrubs would do well near your entryway or as a foundation plant or garden accent. Use Nandina to fire up your planting beds and containers for a brilliant display.
Line all the beds in your landscape with a ribbon of color. This design secret helps tie together the look of the entire design. You should also consider adding these as perfectly poised "facer" plants to hide the bare, leggy stems of taller shrubs.
Ideal for your home's foundation plantings, low hedges, mid-sized backdrops to your mixed perennial gardens, and vibrant color for your mixed shrub borders!
Consider these as an en masse groundcover to fill bare areas with color. Low-maintenance and easy to grow, a mass planting will light up even the harshest commercial site or trickiest landscape!
Grow them in the ground, or add them to your outdoor containers. Dwarf Nandina looks great no matter where you place them! In containers, they'll make a wonderful study of a single species all by themselves, or use Dwarf Heavenly Bamboo as a "Thriller" in the center of mixed planters!
Add Nandina's year-round colorful presence throughout the Rock Garden, bring a tropical flair to poolside plantings, or your Xeric plantings where these shrubs really shine! Nandina are also on many 'Fire-scaping or Firewise' plant lists!
Pump up the appeal of your existing landscaping...or start over fresh with marvelously modern cultivars Heavenly Bamboo! Check out these great options!
- Smaller Nandina Cultivars include shrubs that are 2 feet or less in height
- Variegated Foliage like Twilight Nandina
- Burgundy-Leafed Varieties like Burgundy Wine
- The Largest Nandina put on a big show!
- Chartreuse foliage options like Lemon Lime
Is Heavenly Bamboo Invasive?
In some areas, birds eat the bright red berries and spread the seeds to locations where these plants can grow without anything keeping them in check. But with NatureHills.com, you'll never need to worry!
That's because we follow all state and local regulations we are the very first online plant nursery to use Plant Sentry™ to block the shipment of regulated plant material into areas where any plants can potentially be problematic.
Enter your Zip Code in the Plant Highlights section to find your Hardiness Zone on this page and you'll see if Nature Hills can ship Nandina safely into your area.
Other Nandina Concerns
Nandina is loved by birds, and birds can spread the seeds into sensitive areas, but the fruit can also be toxic to many animals if ingested, especially at high doses. A concern for cows, horses, dogs, cats, and even some birds.
Caring For Heavenly Bamboo
Heavenly Bamboo is an incredibly easy-to-grow flowering shrub! The care of this disease and pest-resistant plant is blessedly easy to grow!
- These rugged plants grow in full sun or shaded conditions.
- In very hot areas, please give them shade in the afternoon.
- Nandina needs well-drained soil.
- Regular water to establish, and supplemental water during long periods of drought.
- Add 3-4 inches of arborist mulch over the root system to keep it cool.
- Prune to shape once a year in late winter before new growth appears.
Tropical Beauty & Carefree Ease!
They love sun to shade, handle any kind of well-drained soil, and only need regular watering their first year in the ground in order to become established and grow fast to fill in!
Urban pollution-tolerant, disease, and pest-resistant plants, this Nandina has an upright, compact nature, far smaller than that of other varieties. Plus it won't require any special care from you, and it's even drought-tolerant once established! Prune these shrubs after they flower, but these shrubs are naturally neat and tidy, and shouldn't need much in the way of maintenance!
High-performance and great year-round appeal, Nandina is a spectacular modern choice from that will transform your landscape with its natural beauty!
Check out all the Heavenly Bamboo available at NatureHills.com and add their exotic flair to your landscape today!
Happy Planting!
