I would love to have a nice start of this plant I have some dayliles or will pay postage. I have nice size Bird of Paradise i would trade for a nice clump.Thanks.
Want Kangaroo Paw
check Lowes.
Our Lowes had them for sale a few weeks ago. But no one was buying them, because we all know better. And now they are all gone, I saw them all in the trash last time I was there. They cannot tolerate the humidity here in the Southern USA, especially in FL. They melt, literally, from fungus as soon as it gets to really be summer. That's probably why they have never caught on anywhere except the dry Southwest. They can grow them in NM, AZ UT and parts of CA. That's about the extent of their US range though.
What Gina said - save your money!
I agree, bought one last year, was dead within a couple of weeks.
Well thanks. They looked really healthy at lowes. I guess not for long. Glad i didnt buy one. I did get some pretty speedwell.
Walmart sells them as cut flowers, which will last a long time and can be dried. Maybe you could dry some, spray them with a preservative and stick them in an airplane plant - the look is similar.
Kangaroo Paws are truly neat plants, especially the black ones, but they are kind of like Protea. Their cultural requirements go so far beyond what we could give them here that its pretty impossible to keep them alive long term. I think you could do it if you had a dedicated "dry house", kind of the polar opposite of a "greenhouse" where instead of strictly protecting from cold you were protecting from cold and keeping it dry with some sort of AC unit, LOL.
I went through a phase of wanting to try to grow Dracula orchids and some of the other cool growing cloud forest types, I tried to do it in the house in a terrarium with misting but it didn't work, it was still too dry. Then I tried the so called "heat tolerant" Draculas and Masdevallias and they all bit it too, it was just too hot.