Tiger Grass
$25.00
Beautiful Tiger Grass can be the perfect bamboo alternative, is great as a fast growing screening or feature plant. This striking plant, originally from Thailand, looks like bamboo but it’s actually a different kind of perennial grass.
Tiger Grass can be an excellent screen, whether mass planted with tropical plants or as a hedge to block out the neighbours. The main difference to bamboo is that Tiger Grass does not have branches (it leafs straight off the culm) and it has grass flowers at the top each year.
Tiger Grass makes a spectacular large container plant. For best results, ensure plants are watered regularly during hot spells. Tiger Grass can even handle short periods of frost.
| Common name | Thysanolaena maxima |
| Height | 2.5 to 3.5m |
| Diameter | 1m |
| Min Temperature | -2ºC |
| Climate | Tropical/subtropical climates |
| Light conditions | Full sun to part shade |
| Growth habit | Tight clumping |
| Care | Well drained and mulched |
| Native to | Thailand |
Our Tiger Grass is from divided rootstock which is a minimum of 4 years old; this means your new plant has a head start and makes excellent progress, much faster than cheaper versions.
It has a vase shaped growth habit with very large tropical green leaves. The natural footprint size of the clump is 1mtr, but it can be planted into narrower garden beds down to 50cm, provided the air space is available for it to naturally fan out.
Is extremely quick growing and can be fully grown within 18 – 24 months, and even faster when you purchase our established rootstock. Tiger Grass is fairly low maintenance and drought tolerant once established, though holds it leaves better with water through extended dry periods.
