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Nursery Direct
Malay Dwarf Bamboo
Bambusa heterostachya
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.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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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.
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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.
Malay Dwarf Bamboo - Bambusa heterostachya
Bambusa heterostachya is one of the bamboos most widely planted in South East Queensland for a tall, slim living screen, and the reasons are practical. Its narrow green culms grow tightly packed in an upright clump, with fine leafy branches starting low on the canes, so it gives privacy from close to ground level without taking much of the garden.
Why Malay Dwarf Bamboo
Narrow Footprint: The clump stays slim at the base, fitting side setbacks and the strip between a driveway and the fence.
Dense to the Ground: Leafy growth begins low on the culms, so the screen has no bare band at eye level or below.
Trims Like a Hedge: It accepts clipping across the top and sides and can be held as a flat-topped formal screen at whatever height suits the site.
Warm Climate Vigour: Heat and humidity drive strong growth, with a fresh flush of shoots through the warm months each year.
Contained Roots: No running rhizomes travel under paths or into the neighbouring garden.
Ideal Applications
Side Boundary Screening: Planted down a narrow side passage, it blocks the line of sight from a neighbouring window.
Tall Hedge Alternative: Trimmed flat, it reaches head height sooner than most hedging shrubs, then holds a neat clipped face.
Planter Box Screens: The compact clump suits wide planter boxes and raised beds where a screen has to sit above paving.
Screening Tanks and Services: A short run hides water tanks, hot water systems and air conditioning units beside the house without blocking access to them.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Late spring to late summer in South East Queensland; spring to early summer further south, so roots settle before winter
Soil & Drainage: Moist, fertile, well drained soil rich in organic matter; it will not tolerate ground that stays waterlogged
Establishment Care: Water deeply every second day for the first month, then every third or fourth day until the weather cools in autumn. Apply a high nitrogen fertiliser through the warm months to drive new culms. This is a tropical species and frost damages its foliage, so in cooler pockets plant it in a sheltered, sunny position.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m, easily held lower by trimming
Width: 1 to 2m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to partial shade
Native to: Malaysia
Flower Colour: Insignificant
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.







