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Nursery Direct
Chinese Temple Bamboo
Sinobambusa tootsik
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, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 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.
Chinese Temple Bamboo - Sinobambusa tootsik
Chinese Temple Bamboo has been planted around temples and courtyards in southern China for centuries for one reason: the culms are exceptionally straight and clean, with long internodes and a neat whorl of short branches carrying fine leaves high on the cane. Sinobambusa tootsik gives a tall, airy vertical screen rather than a solid green wall, which is exactly what you want in a narrow courtyard. It is a running bamboo, so it must be planted with proper containment, and that is not optional.
Why Chinese Temple Bamboo
Architectural Culms: Long clean internodes and an upright habit make the canes themselves the ornamental feature.
Height Without Bulk: Screens to five metres and beyond while occupying very little horizontal ground.
Fine Leaf Texture: Narrow leaves in tidy whorls give movement and sound in the lightest breeze.
Rapid Establishment: New culms reach full height in a single season once the rhizome system is settled.
Shade Capable: Performs in half shade and in the tight light wells between buildings.
Ideal Applications
Narrow Building Gap: Screens overlooking upper windows in side setbacks too tight for any tree.
Contained Courtyard Grove: Grown in a barriered bed it creates a genuine grove effect in a small space.
Raised Planter Boxes: Sealed masonry planters give the containment it requires while showing off the culms.
Asian And Minimalist Design: The clean vertical line suits pared-back gravel, stone and timber schemes.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn, while soil is warm
Soil & Drainage: Moist, free draining soil enriched with organic matter. It struggles in dry, compacted ground and never looks its best without regular water.
Establishment Care: Install a 600 to 750mm deep HDPE root barrier, or plant into a fully sealed raised bed, before the plant goes in, then walk the perimeter each spring and cut off any escaping rhizomes. Water deeply twice weekly through the first two summers and feed with a high nitrogen fertiliser in spring to drive strong new culms.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 8m, occasionally taller in ideal conditions
Width: 1 to 2m per contained clump. Spread is indefinite if left unbarriered
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Southern China and northern Vietnam
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.







