Sacred Bamboo - Nandina domestica

A plant for every home! This scared bamboo provides a delightful and useful addition to any garden. With winter almost here, birds are searching for food and the trees are starting to look bare. We’ve searched for a plant that would bring a fun and charming character to be enjoyed and utilised in your space. Take a look at the reasons why we have awarded sacred bamboo with its own spotlight this week.

• The scared bamboo is indigenous to China and Japan and is believed to represent friendship.
• An evergreen plant, although leaves can fall during colder winters, it provides year-round garden colour.
• Sacred bamboo can be planted in pots for a patio or balcony garden.
• Gardens with sacred bamboo help to attract wild birds as they will eat the plump red or white berries.
• Young leaves burst with exciting colours ranging from shades of pinks to reds in the spring.
• During the summer months, its leaves change to bright green and the sacred bamboo produces clusters of white flowers which rise above the plant’s foliage.
• The flowers of the sacred bamboo are replaced by red or cream coloured berries during autumn and provide a food source for wild birds, bringing a little more life into your garden.
• The leaves then turn to deep shades of red, burgundy, and purple.
• Sacred bamboo enjoys full sun to partly shaded areas, making its location preference in any garden an easy choice.
• A fairly water-wise plant, with average water requirements but can handle drier conditions if water is scarce.
• Sacred bamboo grows to about two meters tall and 1.5 meters wide, making it an ideal hedge plant.
• Non-invasive roots allow the sacred bamboo to grow freely without disrupting any surrounding structures or other plants.
• The sacred bamboo needs very little maintenance, needing a trim during midwinter, it can be left to grow freely throughout the rest of the year.
• Organic fertiliser pellets serve this plant well during the spring, however, the sacred bamboo does not require regular feeding.
• A beautiful plant that can easily grow in a container for smaller gardens and patios, providing every garden with its awe-inspiring colours and wildlife attracting benefits.
• Once established, the scared bamboo can withstand a variety of harsh conditions, making it one of the more hardy plant options for your garden.

The sacred bamboo is a stunning plant and an excellent addition to any garden, big or small. Semi-water wise, noninvasive, stunningly colourful and a bird attraction, it’s no wonder the belief around this ancient plant is surrounded by friendship.