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I have had 4 bird of paradise plants in my garden for about 8 years and only one blooms. They are all healthy looking. What can I do? Plants: 3 | From: Tampa,Florida | Registered: Jul 2005
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I used to have Strelitzia plants in my Cape Town garden when I lived there, and I did nothing special to them, they just bloomed in spring every year. Now in Spain I have two large plants in a big pot, they like to be pot bound I believe. I had 3 blooms this year in Spring, I feed every week with general fertilizer,in summer and water every other day as it is very hot and dry now. So far so good. My sister grew 3 plants from seed in UK, indoors, and they bloomed after 10 years!!!! Good luck with yours the blooms are worth the wait.
Plants: 11 | From: Camposol, Murcia, Spain | Registered: Jul 2005
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Much patience and much food, thats the key with strelitzia. And plenty of water while they are leafing.
Unfortunately I live in the UK and mine are still very young, only six years. In a cool summer they will produce only a few leaves even!
If you want to grow strelitzias then make it worth your while and go for the really good ones.
Everyone has had a go at S. reginae, the orange and blue one, get S. nicolai, the giant Strelitzia, it has almost black flower bracts and pure white petals.
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