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Heliconia plants

19 years ago

I have a large range of heliconias, gingers and costus plants to swap or sell. I have a large shadehouse with hundreds potted up. I live on the Sunshine Coast and have 50 or 60 varieties of the above. If you have any unusual varieties of heliconias I would be very keen to trade these for some of my rare ones.

You can contact me at skyfox@iprimus.com.au or ring me on 54411708.

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Yisraelee
19 years ago
Have you any hardy to around 0C for my Perth garden?
tirto
13 years ago
Hi,
I've grown interest in growing Heliconia ever since I went to Singapore Botanic Garden. Heliconias are abundant over there and they grow so well that even some of them cracked and grow on the cemented pathway. back in Indonesia, I used to think of them as potential weed, due to how quick they grew and nearly overtake the whole garden in a year (worse if I give them fertilizer). So, I undervalue them and threw all of them away.

Now, I live in Melbourne, the winter temperature here can get to -1 to -2C in the morning with occasional very light frost, around 8 - 10C during midday. I read through the garden forum, people talk about schideana, subulata, angusta, spissa etc as being cold hardy. But, I wonder how cold they can survive to? will they still flower after exposure to -1C?

I have been searching for answer from different sources. however, it seems every areas and ones own experience are different. So, I've decided to experiment it myself. I grow heliconia rostrata and subulata outside in the pot at the moment. there was just a light frost here yesterday. The subulata has not shown damage yet, but the rostrata has shown a slight frost burnt around the edges of the leaves. Should I worry about this?
I wonder if anyone has experience growing Heliconia in temperate zone (in melbourne) succesfully?

I'm going to put subulata, rostrata, bihai 'nappi' and angusta 'red christmas' into the ground in my garden once the winter pass. So, I will need advice how to look after them.

Can anyone tell if heliconia caribaea x bihai 'kawauchi' will likely to survive melbourne weather?

Tirto
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Even in Venice Beach the Alpinia purpurata is not winter hardy, and won't even like the typical night time temps in summer. This one is a true ultra tropical that only blooms in California if greenhouse grown. Near the beach, as you are, I would think that Hedychium gardnerianum is likely to do very well in full sun as long as it gets good year round water, especially in hot spells. The viviperous Ginger you have is probably Hedychium greenei, which is orange red in bloom and does create new offsets from the old flower stalks, and is not fragrant. I don't know what that particular Heliconia species will want in your location, as it is a species that isn't hardy enough to grow here in the SF Bay Area. I have seen this growing in full sun in the tropics, so I think it would do okay with full morning sun or dappled sun. It will want your warmest most protected conditions to get through winter, and may need to be grown as a container plant and given protection in winter to get it to actually bloom. The more heat you can give it in the growing season, the more likely you are to see it bloom.
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Wow!, you should try giving it 0-10-10. You don't want to give it a high dose of nitrogen, but a very low dose of nitrogen is okay because the leaves are already green. You don't want to lose variegation. I'm interested to have some of all your Heliconias. I have nice plants to offer. I live in Bonsall-North County San Diego. Pretty close to Vista,California. Let me know if you're interested. We can negotate what you have to offer. Chambeyronia macrocarpa-watermelon crownshaft(1 gal.)8 avaialbe Kentia palm (1 gal)8 available Variegated Canna stuggart (rhizomes)about 12 avaialbe Alocasia adora-giant elephant ears(1 and 3 gal)10 avialabe Phylastachys nigra-black bamboo-runner (5 gallons)7 avaialbe Variegated Jade (very small container)27 available Inga edulas-Ice Cream Bean seedlings 10 avaiable Zamia picta-varigated zamia (5.5" deep linear)10 available I have alot more to choose and too many to list. Here is a link that might be useful: GardenWeb
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