Fatsia
Fatsia japonica
Huge, glossy, hand-shaped leaves bring a bold tropical look to deep shade, where little else this lush will grow, and it copes with salt and city air. Keep it out of hot sun and in soil that stays moist but drains.
- Mature size
- 8 × 8 ft
- 2.4 × 2.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7b–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part shade to full shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Oct–Nov
Fatsia at its mature size
A mature Fatsia grows to about 8 ft tall and 8 ft wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Clemson Extension, UF/IFAS Extension, NC State Extension.
Through the year
What Fatsia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Dec–Sep
Huge glossy dark green hand-shaped leaves.
In flower · Oct–Nov
Round white flower clusters above the leaves.
Growing Fatsia
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, specimen, and shade garden
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan and South Korea
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Fatsia, that’s about 8 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Fatsia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.