Hello All I just posed a picture of this nice pendaloides.I will have seeds soon as well as some rhizomes to trade.Also Villosa Have a nice day Christian...
Hello Christian Victor from Singapore here. I would be interested in seeds of H. villosa if you have them. I know several people here who had tried growing...
Hello all...! Christian: I have fresh seeds of Helic. xanthovillosa that I can trade for your pendaloides or villosa. I can also try sending a nice rhyzome. Or...
Hello Christian I don't have a list of plants that I have as I am not running a nursery or farm. What I have is a very small garden where I try to put in as...
Hi friends, There hasn't been much activity on our site lately, so I thought I would report some findings that I have experienced with my heliconias. We had ...
Hi Ray, I worked with papaya for many years, and it is also very sensitive to oil based pesticides. The only two pesticides we could use were wettable powder,...
Hi all On a much smaller scale in home cultivation, I now use a neem-based pesticide on my heliconias. I also read that home made concoctions of chilli, with...
Hi all: I was wondering whether it is possible to get my heliconias to set seeds via manual means. Do heliconias set seeds when the flowers get fertilized with...
Hello all: In your opinion, which is the most graceful pendent you have come across? I am looking for a pendent that has the petite size of chartaceas and can...
Hi Calvin, 'Temptress' is a pretty nice tall pendent. Very vigorous and lots of flowers, but longer blooming season than platystachys. I think it can take...
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Hola Patricia, No tienes un acercamiento de la flor? Definitivamente una psittacorum, posiblemente 'Parakeet' o 'Tropical Nights'. Bryan Puerto Rico...
Hi friends, I was just looking at the latest photo posting on our site of Wagneria "superba." Mark Collins told me that Wagneria "Surpurba" looks almost ...
Bryan As far as I could tell, the heliconias that we have here do not set seeds, or if there were any, even the fruits were far too few to be noticed. ...
Hi all: This sounds like an interesting place to visit for heliconias, palms and orchids. Is Anders on this list? Would love to know how to get there from...
Calvin I have had seeds on my Sexy Orange, Marginata Lutea and occasionally, some psitts. Mushlim in Malacca have seeds on a few spp. including the Dinosaur....
Hi friends Yes Ray,the Wagneriana it looks really like turbo.But the real Turbo has not bloomed till now here in Limeira ,BR, so I can not compare.I received...
Hi Chris, I know you asked one time before about cows, but I didn't know whether you were joking or not!!! I haven't had cow problems with heliconias, but they...
Hi Chris, "Easter" and "surpurba" wagnerianas, accroding to Mark Collins, are almost identical having bright red "cheeks," but the rest of the bract is mainly ...
Hi Calvin, Ok, I guess the hummingbirds might make a difference here. I have also seen honeybees gathering pollen on psittacorum flowers, but don't know if...
Chris Don't know about cows and horses but in Hawaii and in Malaysia, wild pigs are a big problem. They love the rhizomes! My dogs also digs at any newly...
Hi Friends, I just posted 3 photos. One is of Wagneriana "Easter" that apparently, according to Mark Collins, looks just like Wagneriana "Supurba." -- the...
Hi Ray Your 'burning desire' and 'dusty rose' look quite the same?... Beautiful cultivars! calvin ... apparently, ... the only ... of Strictas ... almost ... ...
Hi all friends. The picture posted by Raymond really looks the same.Even the foto looks the same comparing them side by side.I have a very similar Heliconia in...
Hello Friends I just posed a foto of an nice little Heliconia.Psittacorum??? I have heard many names for this plant.I know it is not the best picture ,but I...