Vetiver -10 Bare root plants. Year round for zones 8-11, indoors or greenhouses. Slips, sunshine, roots, oil

Vetiver plants love to grow - they'll send out roots while they're travelling to your house in a shipping container. As long as you water them and keep them in the sun, they will grow. Heat and vetiver go together - just add water for the first few months and they will be happy.

In cold regions, you need to bring them indoors for the winter or mulch them heavily. They will only die if they're frozen to the ground for an extended period. I've over-wintered some in Zone 7 and they came back in the spring. More info on vetiver at www.vetiver.org


Vetiver for soil stabilization: There are four significant types of erosion, one of which is known as mass-movement erosion. When gravity combines with heavy rain or earthquakes, whole slopes can slump, slip or slide. The effect of slopes slipping or sliding then fall into two categories: deep-seated and shallow-seated. A deep-seated issue is a geographical issue in nature. Correcting this type of failure requires understanding slope geometry, soil strength, climatic condition, groundwater qualities, etc. A landslide where the sliding surface lies beneath the soil mantle or weathered bedrock is known as a shallow land.

Vetiver planted in the flood area of a river and on the banks themselves can provide stability and protection. Vetiver river bank buffers will also reduce sediment flows into waterways and the amounts of excess phosphates, nitrates, and heavy metals from entering vital water systems. Land slides that occur in many areas of high and intense rainfall cause tremendous economic loss and hardships. Many of these slides would not happen if slopes were adequately protected. Vetiver grass is an ideal plant since it can pin “slippable soil horizons” to underlying more stable sub-soil horizons.