Lemongrass Live Plants | Jamaican Fever Grass Culinary Herb

Fresh Citrus Aroma for Your Garden and Kitchen

Grow your own lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), the fragrant tropical herb known in Jamaica as Fever Grass. Its lemon-scented leaves and flavorful stalks bring a bright citrus note to Caribbean bush tea, Thai curries, soups, broths, and marinades. Keep a pot near your kitchen garden and enjoy harvesting fresh stalks for your next meal.

What You Are Ordering

This listing is for live lemongrass plants, not seeds. Choose the available option for 1 plant, 3 plants, or 10 plants. Your selected option determines the number of plants in your order.

Why Grow Lemongrass?

• Versatile culinary herb: Use the tender inner stalk in cooking, or infuse leaves and tougher stalk sections into teas and broths.
• Distinctive lemon fragrance: Enjoy a fresh citrus aroma from the long, arching leaves.
• Attractive clumping growth: Mature plants can form leafy clumps approximately 3–5 feet tall in favorable conditions.
• Suitable for large containers: A practical choice for sunny patios and gardens where plants need winter protection.

Planting and Care

• Light: Choose a full-sun location.
• Timing: Plant outdoors after the last frost, when conditions are consistently warm.
• Soil: Use fertile, well-drained soil or a quality container potting mix. Space garden plants about 24 inches apart.
• Water: Maintain consistent moisture without leaving roots in soggy soil. Check the top inch of soil before watering.
• Feeding: Apply a balanced fertilizer according to its label directions during active growth.
• Cold protection: Lemongrass is frost-sensitive. In colder climates, grow it in a container and move it to a bright, protected indoor location before frost.

Harvesting and Kitchen Use

Allow plants to establish before harvesting. Select mature outer stalks approximately ½ inch thick and cut them close to the base, leaving the center of the clump to continue growing. Remove tough outer layers before finely slicing the tender inner portion for cooking. Bruise whole stalks to release their aroma when making broth or tea, then remove fibrous pieces before serving.

Handling tip: Leaf edges can be sharp, so wear gloves when trimming or harvesting. Fever Grass is a traditional common name, not a claim that this plant treats fever or any medical condition.