How Do You Plant a Grass Tree

Choose a place in the garden that gets full sun to part shade. … Dig the planting hole twice as wide and to the same depth as the root-ball.Carefully remove the plant from the pot ensuring not to disturb any of the roots. … Position in hole and backfill, gently firming down.

How much sun does a grass tree need?

Take a cup of brown sugar, put it in a bucket of water and water your grass trees once a month for two years with that mixture. The sugar feeds the mycorrhiza and gets it going and your grass tree will survive. These plants like well drained soil and full sun, and with that will grow just about anywhere.

Are grass trees easy to transplant?

How to replant grass trees. Grass tree roots depend on microbes in the soil known as mycorrhiza. When you transplant an established grass tree, you’ll need to bring as much of the original root soil as possible. Doing so will give the plant the best chance of becoming established in its new location.