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Nursery Direct
Moso Bamboo
Phyllostachys edulis
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 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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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.
Moso Bamboo - Phyllostachys edulis
Moso is the giant timber bamboo of east Asia, the species that forms those cathedral-like groves of thick, powder-blue culms in Chinese and Japanese forests. Phyllostachys edulis produces the largest culms of any temperate bamboo, and its foliage is unusually fine and soft for the scale of the plant, so a mature grove combines heavy vertical structure with a light, feathery canopy. It is important to understand before planting that this is a running bamboo, not a clumper: it spreads by underground rhizomes and must be contained.
Why Moso Bamboo
Culm size: Mature culms are the thickest of any bamboo that will grow in temperate Australia, giving genuine architectural weight.
Grove effect: Establishes into a walkable grove of vertical stems rather than a solid hedge.
Fine foliage: Small, soft leaves contrast with the massive culms and rustle constantly.
Rapid shoot growth: New culms emerge in spring and reach full height in a matter of weeks.
Usable timber: Harvested culms are strong and straight, useful for structures and screens.
Ideal Applications
Contained grove planting: Grown inside a root barrier as a walk-through feature in a large garden.
Tall screening: A properly contained run gives serious height quickly along a boundary.
Japanese and Asian-style gardens: The defining bamboo of that garden tradition.
Large containers: Planted in substantial above-ground planters, which also solves containment.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m within a contained bed
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m
Best Planting Season: Spring and autumn
Soil & Drainage: Deep, rich, moisture-retentive but well-drained soil. Critically, this is a running bamboo, so install a purpose-made rhizome barrier at least 600mm deep around the entire planting, or use a sealed raised planter, before anything goes in the ground.
Establishment Care: Water deeply two or three times a week through the first two summers; moisture drives culm size in the early years. Mulch heavily with organic matter, feed with a high-nitrogen or lawn-type fertiliser in spring, and inspect the barrier edge each autumn, cutting off any rhizome that has escaped.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 15m in Australian conditions, taller in ideal warm humid climates
Width: Indefinite spread unless contained; culms 80 to 150mm across
Growth Rate: Slow for the first few years, then very fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: China and Taiwan, long cultivated in Japan
Flower Colour: Insignificant; bamboos flower only at very long intervals
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.







