Like so many of our tropical plants these days wether it's Palms, Calathea's, Gingers, Heliconia's etc, are all threatened in habitat due to deforestation, we hope to increase the appreciation of as many of these beautiful brilliantly colourful flowers as possible before some of these spectacular flowering species are lost.

All of the species we have listed have been grown on the Sunshine coast with winter temperatures down to 3C, many of these are just planted in mulch in and around our Palm garden and are not watered..! Although we receive quite consistent rain which seems to keep the mulch damp, we do not irrigate or water over 90% of our Garden.

Heliconia's, Gingers, Costus and Calatheas add that true Tropical look to any part of the garden, many also make excellent cut flowers or cut foliage to bring the garden into the home..! Most of these species listed are actually quite quick growers, if buying a Rhizome grown plant and given the right conditions you should have these flowering in around 18 months time..! Sometimes once a Heliconia is mature you can add a little potassium sulphate "pot ash" this will promote flowering, just make sure not to add any nitrogen base fertilizer as this will out weigh the potassium and promote growth.

We hope to list quite a few more species, hybrids and cultivars in the future as these become more establish in our garden. So we have many excellent variates available here for any garden with small growing species up to quite large growing species, ones with pendulous or spiralling flowers to ones with large amazing erect brilliantly coloured flowers "inflorescence" Please enjoy these amazingly easy to grow plants in your garden, and we hope you have just as much excitement for these tropical wounders called Heliconias..! 

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*****Listed at the bottom of the page future species and cultivars becoming available. More species and photographs to be listed soon. *****