Nandina Domestica Plants for Sale

About

Nandina domestica — commonly called Heavenly Bamboo or Sacred Bamboo — is neither bamboo nor particularly sacred, but it is one of the most reliably ornamental, lowest-maintenance evergreen shrubs you can plant in an Australian garden. Native to East Asia (China, Japan, and the Indian subcontinent), Nandina belongs to the Berberidaceae family — the same family as Berberis (barberry) — and delivers a continuous year-round foliage display that few shrubs can match. New growth emerges flushed bronze and red in spring, transitions to soft green through summer, then turns to its most spectacular display — vivid scarlet, burgundy, and deep red — through autumn and winter. Compact modern cultivars maintain this seasonal foliage cycle with no deadheading, no heavy feeding, and almost no pruning required. Older species forms also produce airy white summer flowers followed by clusters of bright red berries in autumn — beautiful as a garden display, though berries should be kept from pets. Our Nandina collection spans compact 30cm groundcover forms to 1.8m upright specimens — choose by height, foliage colour, and garden use from the guide below. Every plant is backed by our 30-day grow guarantee and delivered fresh to your door across VIC, NSW, QLD, SA, and ACT. What Is Nandina? The Plant Behind the Name Nandina domestica is the sole species in the genus Nandina, in the family Berberidaceae — the same botanical family as Berberis (barberry) and Mahonia. Despite its common names — Heavenly Bamboo and Sacred Bamboo — it is completely unrelated to true bamboos, which belong to the grass family Poaceae. The bamboo comparison comes from its upright, hollow-ish, cane-like stems and finely divided, compound leaves that have a distinctly Asian, airy aesthetic — but that is where the similarity ends. Native to central and eastern China, Japan, and the Indian subcontinent, Nandina domestica has been cultivated in Japanese gardens for centuries and in Western horticulture since the late