we grow this plant at work..Heliconia Rostrata gets about 10 feet tall and blooms last for many weeks.The handsome guy is me!!((AW SHUCKS)) I'm so modest huh??LOL
Heliconia and Eclipse
Neat plant, nice to meet cha!
Deanne.... :-)
gorgeous!!! the plant, not you, although you do look a lot like my DH, who is very nice looking:)
ah geez, thought it would be a bathing suit shot in this heat.......
Cool plant.........where is your baseball cap?
See you've got your Haiwaian shirt on, all ready to go!
We've been there twice, it is like Paradise!
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Arlene...they have standards here ya know...if I wore a bathing suit..everyone would run off!!LOL LOL
Now that shirt goes with the Aloha picture!
And you cut your hair from the wading-in-the-pond picture.
Nice heliconia too!
Kyle, truly stunning plant, I had seen pictures of this and wondered how it would do in our climate....
It is nice to meet you Kyle, you are very handsome!
troy
Jul 15, 2002
Eclipse
those are grown inside in your area right?
Troy..they are in a conservatory in Iowa where I work.will grow here in summer but season is too short to get them to bloom outdoors.
Wonderful, Eclipse (handsome, modest....whatelse????.
You should see this http://davesgarden.com/showthread/108998.html again, if you haven't seen this before. The lady in question (in the newspaper article) referred it as H.musaceae and you say it as H.rostrata. Are they similar? Last week, I managed to get a couple of these plants from my friend....dream came true. They're very young.
Dinu...the name musaceae..is actually the family name for members of the musa(banana) family. In the USA its know as Hel. Rostrata..there is also several sports of it...differ only in size of plant or flowers.Congrats on getting plants of them..they should do good for you in your climate.water well and feed alot!
:-)
Thanks for the info Eclipse. You see, I'm such a novice!
Nice plant!! Nice to see you again too.
Calalily :-)