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Heliconia Latispatha x Psittacorum 'Carmasita'

This is the first to bloom out of about a dozen heliconia rhizomes that I potted on 5/14/22.

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very pretty plant. beautiful!!!!!!!

but carmisata? i think its cannibasa. :ha: the feds are now looking for you!

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Nice plant.....saw it on reddit

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Heliconia Psittacorum 'Variegated Lady Di'



I bought the rhizome for $12.99 from

https://www.ebay.com/usr/tropical_heliconias

and potted it on 5/14/22. The average price is around $50 so I got a bargain.

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It's a praying hands!! Hard to get good photos of it, had to wash them out to see anything.

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hope you didnt get the camera wet :ha:

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I'm right about there with mine (in height) but it just keeps pushing out surfboards. Congrats.

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:ha::07:

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I'm sure you are close! This is about 15 months from TC. I already removed a huge pup off it and put it in the other corner of the yard.

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Heliconia psittacorum x spathocircinata 'Golden Torch'



This heliconia is a relatively slow grower. I potted the rhizome on 10/15/21. I have another heliconia from another seller that is labelled the same but is a much more vigorous grower. It might bloom within 2 months.

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Well, its finally happening. P. nigra cultivars are flowering and it seems to be happening to many of the different nigra varieties.

We may lose the beloved temperate black bamboo that has been so popular for the last few decades.

No love lost for a lot of folks I am sure, but it will be missed.

If you are one of those unlucky folks who has an inconsiderate bamboo growing neighbor, and they have a nigra cultivar, you may be in luck, as they almost always die after flowering

Of course flowering means seeds, which may give rise to some cool new varieties if we are lucky :D

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Curcuma 'Baan Rai Red'





I bet you expected me to post a heliconia. Ha, ha!

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does anyone happen to know what plant this is? edit: nevermind... looks like california poppy

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Heliconia psittacorum 'Petra'





Grown from a rhizome potted on 4/23/22.

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Heliconia Psittacorum X Spathocircinata 'Keanea Red'





Heliconia Psittacorum 'Flamingo'

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I've waited a few years but this bop does look spectacular!

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Wow, what is that?

I got a new computer, and the site somehow still recognized me. That's unsettling.

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It's definitely worth the wait.

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Strelitzia.bird of paradise, I have the white version ( nicolia) also but I doubt it will ever flower

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very nice flower!

i have the nicolai as well

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Mine is potted so very restricted, is your in the ground and has it ever flowered?

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yeah mine is in a 7 gallon pot.. about 5 feet tall
i got it free at the end of the growing season of 2022
i drove around on the last night before a killing frost asking people with tropicals if they were going to bring them inside
it was pretty tiny at the time
it is still a baby... no flower yet
i have seen some big ones at a garden nearby
talked to that gardener and he brought them inside each fall if the temperatures were going to go below 10C
i think they can handle cooler than that though
here is a recent enough pic
it is in the middle in the background against the wall with a traveller palm to the left of it

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I want a traveller palm to add to my collection, I've tried from seed with no luck.

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i tried to germinate both Ravenala madagascariensis and Phenakospermum guyannense with no luck either.

i got mine for free when i helped a friend pick up a bunch of palms with my trailer

speaking with the sales lady i mentioned how i wanted to get one but it was out of my budget
she said they were giving some of the sort of hurting looking ones away to customers and gave me one pot with two small ones in it
as soon as i got home i separated them so now i have 2

i saw some big ones at a local nursery which were probably close to 20' tall which were $1500 CAD each

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Same here. You can buy plants in 4in pots at a price that is too high for me at:

https://kensphilodendrons.com/produc...agascariensis/

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hi aruzinsky!

this page needs some flower pics
i know i post my plumeria all the time but this is what is flowering currently

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so i noticed last night while watering that my BOP has a pup/offset!



and i know i have posted pics of this hoya carnosa before but it is currently in the process of flowering

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Mine too!!

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a couple days ago:







and today:

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Bet the Hoya smells sweet!

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Hoya flowers are the best.

They are so waxy and plastic, it's amazing.
Your plants look great.

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After success with hedychium coronarium, last year I bought about 10 other varieties of hedychium. The first to bloom is Hedychium Giant Hybrid Yellow which was a surprise because it is the largest growing, growing to 9 ft.



I discovered that potted hedychium coronarium can be stored in a dormant state in a cold spot of my basement so I will be doing the same with all of my hedychiums because, otherwise, they would occupy all of the space in my greenhouse.

Calathea Loeseneri:


Some heliconia: