Beautiful Bird of Paradise - perfectly suited to South Australia
Strelizia reginae
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| The original colored Bird of Paradise |
The origin of this gorgeous plant is South Africa. It was first introduced to Europe in 1773, when it was grown at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Since then, it has been widely introduced around the world, including the Americas and Australia.
This evergreen beauty has a vase shape and can reach up to 1.5m x 1.5m. But don’t worry, there is a range of dwarf varieties available on the market for small gardens !
Strelitzias became popular all over the world because of their toughness and ability to grow well in any area that is sunny, warm and of course full of love! There are just a few simple steps to show your love to the Bird of Paradise, first of all keep the soil moist – water well during the summer,less once well established. Give it a good fertilizer for better flowering – strelitzias will be more than happy with a good, well rotted compost and fertilizer with high Nitrogen just before its flowering season -April to November. And the last important step – ‘haircut’! If you think the only ‘creatures’ who can benefit from the services of the beauty salons are human – you are completely wrong! Your Strelitzia plant will love a good haircut after the flowers have finished – so hack away!
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| New! Yellow flowered Bird of Paradise 'Mandela Gold' |
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