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Nursery Direct
Painted Bamboo
Bambusa vulgaris ‘Vittata’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 750Ltypically 5 to 7m tall on delivery
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Looking for a larger size?
Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
Send An EnquiryYou order. We do the rest.
After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Painted Bamboo - Bambusa vulgaris ‘Vittata’
Painted bamboo carries thick golden yellow culms irregularly striped in deep green, and at 5 to 10cm across those culms are substantial enough to read as a structural element rather than a grass. Critically Bambusa vulgaris is a clumping bamboo, not a runner, so it expands slowly outward from a defined base instead of invading a neighbour's lawn. It is a tropical and subtropical plant and needs warmth, water and feeding to produce the colour it is grown for.
Why Painted Bamboo
Culm colour: Bright golden canes randomly striped in green, the most decorative culm of any commonly grown bamboo.
Clumping habit: It forms a tight expanding clump rather than running, so it can be used near boundaries.
Screening speed: New culms emerge at full diameter and reach full height in a single season.
Sound and movement: The canopy rustles and shifts constantly, adding a sensory element few screens offer.
Climate limit: Foliage is damaged by frost, so it belongs in frost free coastal, subtropical and tropical gardens.
Ideal Applications
Tall privacy screen: A row along a boundary blocks a multi-storey outlook faster than any tree.
Resort and poolside planting: Golden culms and moving foliage set the tropical character of a pool garden.
Feature clump: A single specimen in a lawn or gravel bed shows the culm colour from every angle.
Windbreak: A dense clump line filters wind across an exposed subtropical block.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m centres
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m centres
Best Planting Season: Spring and summer while soil is warm
Soil & Drainage: Deep fertile well drained soil with plenty of organic matter, moisture retentive but not swampy
Establishment Care: Water generously and often through the first two summers, since bamboo culm size and colour depend directly on water and feeding. Mulch heavily, feed with a high nitrogen or lawn type fertiliser in spring and midsummer, and thin out old or weak culms at the base each year to show the good ones.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 15m
Width: 2 to 4m per clump
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Tropical Asia, now cultivated throughout the tropics
Flower Colour: Insignificant, flowering is very rare
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







