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EJ
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Location: Essex
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: Strelitzia |
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As per Eileens request, here is a piccy of my Bird of Paradise, blooming away in my conservatory.
There are currently 5 more buds, and each bloom will last up to three months, great value....mind you.....it took 15 years of me growing it from seed before it flowered!
I will take a more recent photo as that snap was from just before Christmas.
Does anyone else grow tropical plants in their gardens, conservatorys or greenhouses?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:29 am Post subject: |
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Thanks EJ!!!!! I love seeing photographs of your Bird of Paradise although it always makes me a bit green with envy. 
The only tropical plant I have is an avacado which I grew from seed last summer. It's about 1' high at the moment and doesn't seem to want to grow any bigger.  Maybe, come the better weather, it'll pick up again. 
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Amazing EJ  15 years eh, very impressive! It looks like it has been worth all that effort. Is it a high maintenance plant?
// By the way, what a cute nephew!
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EJ
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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It isn't high maintenance at all.....thank goodness! I don't have the time to pamper my plants. Being a tropical plant, it doesn't mind hot and dry, which is good as it lives year round in my conservatory. I feed it once in a blue moon, and it is totally pot bound. I do have a new HUGE pot for it, but wanted to wait until it had finished flowering, only thing is, it has sent up more flower spikes!
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