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This plant grows in my Hilton Head garden. Hilton Head SC officially is zone 8b, but from a winter hardiness perspective it is zone 9a, b...Read More
I have only found this on Wikipedia on how to differentiate between Strelitzia alba and Strelitzia nicolai:
''Flowering may take p...Read More
Pics of flowers above are wrong! They show Strelitzia nicolai ! with blue part (Corolla). S. alba has 100% white flowers, with no blue in it!
This plant grows fairly easily in in Southern California. I purchased a couple of small plants for my house after I saw a pair that I pl...Read More
Looking for advice. I have two white birds planted outside in full sun. They are 6 to 8 years old, about 15 feet high and have lots of bl...Read More
I have a cluster (about 3) white Birds's of Paradise in the front of my house in San Antonio, TX. Initially it was about 2 feet tall and...Read More
It seems there is some confusion out there about the differences between S. alba and S. nicolai. Here is some information which should h...Read More
About two months ago, somebody had thrown this (and another) plant out in the trash in the building where I work. I brought them both ho...Read More
I am pretty sure that I have a White Bird of Paradise, but I'm not quite sure - it may be a Traveler's Palm. I bought this plant a few y...Read More
I'm really wondering if everyone who has posted here has a genuine Strelitzia augusta (alba) and not just a common S. nicolai. I sent awa...Read More
What do I do if the leaves of my plant roll up? The plant has been watered and was doing fine until I set it out in the sun today. The ...Read More
We also just purchased our first WBOP for our new apartment. After seeing them grow in abundance in Hawaii I knew they'd make a perfect ...Read More
I have a large white bird of paradise growing in the ground in my front yard, zone 9A. It grew like topsy in one year, after being releas...Read More
I live in Houston Texas. I bought a WBOP at a garden discount store last fall. We are sometimes wearing shorts during winter here and I f...Read More
We had two white birds of paradise growing on the west side of our house. Both over 10 feet high. Two weeks before the hurricanes of 2004...Read More
We recently moved into a house with two white bird of paradise in built-in planters on the lanai. They have done wonderfully except lots ...Read More
only seen a few of these plants labeled as such in southern CAlifornia... not sure exactly how they differ from S nicolai. The one in Hu...Read More
I grew a white bird in the ground for about nine years at my home in St. Petersburg, Florida, zone 9b. It grew from an under two foot ta...Read More
I'm stationed in Central Texas, and have a number (around 30 in the last year) of tropical plants ranging from Gingers (Red, White, Awapu...Read More
We bought a 3-4 foot White Bird of Paradise, which is now 5 1/2 feet tall. We keep it in the house in a 16" drained pot near a south-fac...Read More
I have this plant and mine is also curling a bit, even though I water once a week.
My plant is about 5 1/2 feet tall, and ...Read More
Coming from tropical regions, this plant requires moist soil; it should be watered once a week, or even every five days.
S...Read More
I have a large White Bird of Paradise plant that I bought about a month ago. I repotted it in a clay pot and placed it in front of a wind...Read More