Plant Database
Lemon Lime Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina domestica ‘Lemon Lime’
Lemon Lime Heavenly Bamboo offers a refreshing, bright color palette that stands out in shaded garden areas. Its new growth emerges a vivid, cheerful lime-yellow, maturing to a bright chartreuse-green that holds its color beautifully throughout the year without turning red. This medium-sized, rounded shrub adds a luminous, light-catching effect to borders and is one of the best Nandinas for disease resistance, making it a carefree and colorful choice for partial to full shade gardens.
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Bright, Steady Chartreuse Foliage: New leaves are a vibrant lemon-lime yellow, maturing to a stable, bright chartreuse-green that does not develop red tones in winter.
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Luminous Effect in Shade: The light-colored foliage brightens up dark cornersand creates contrast when planted with darker green plants.
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Excellent Disease Resistance: Particularly resistant to the bacterial leaf scorchthat can affect other Nandina cultivars.
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Attractive Form & Berries: Forms a full, rounded shrub (3-4 ft tall/wide) and produces white flowers and bright red berries for added interest.
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Adaptable to Sun or Shade: Performs well in partial to full shade, and can tolerate morning sun. Too much hot afternoon sun may scorch the leaves.