This lemony flavored grass has a hot and spicy surprise waiting underground. The blanched white end of each stalk adds a sharp lemon tang to soups and stir fries and is an essential ingredient in many Asian dishes. After a good size clump of Lemon Grass has developed, pieces can be broken off at the base of the clump for cooking.  It is a tender plant and should be protected or brought in where winters go below 10 degrees. And, while we don't cook with the coarse leaves, they do make great sun tea. Just a word of caution. When you work around your lemon grass plants, be sure to wear long sleeves. The blades are extremely sharp and can slice you to ribbons.

If you don't use your Lemon Grass fast enough, you will want to divide and replant when the plant gets two feet or so in diameter.

Lemon Grass is one of the six plants chosen to be in our
Biblical Herb Garden
and in our
Zone 9 Tea Herb Garden.

LEMON GRASS (Cymbopogon citratus): “Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,” Exodus 30:23.

Sweet smelling Calamus refers to the many aromatic grasses found growing in abundance in the Holy Land, of which Lemon Grass is one. In this scripture the Lord delivers instructions to Moses for the proper way to make and use Holy Oil. So valued was this oil that perfume was not even to be made in the same way. 

If Lemon Grass won't survive your winter, you can grow it in one of our larger Terra Roma Planters for a year. Each year it will have to be lifted out and divided or put into a larger pot.

Height: 3 Feet

Hardiness: Perennial
in Zones 8-11

Flower Color: None

Characteristics: Full Sun,
Herbaceous,
Clumping Grass

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