Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Bird of paradise - where can I buy (not the white one), 1 by lourspolaire

lourspolaire wrote:
Maureenpm00, I include a picture of the birds of paradise that grow on autopilot in one of my beds. If you wish, I could dig a couple of them and mail you the rhizomes. Here in Southern Florida, they grow like weeds but I wonder how they would do in NY.

They need full tropical sunlight, no cold, quite a bit of water and they are not heavy feeders. Being quite "parental" of my plants, may I enquire as to how you would you care for them? They are absolutely not hardy.

Mine are 8 or 9 feet tall now. The patch is about 8 feet in diameter and they grow as tight as hair. They've been in the ground for a year now. I took them home from a friendly gardener's place as 6 rhizomes in a ziploc bag. I planted them about a week later and they've been doing their own thing all that time, blooming almost constantly.

Sylvain.