....for blooms. Heliconia sharonii is one of my favorites. A smaller growing 'dwarf' variety, easy to manage. Its a winter bloomer so any time now right? This was it last time I caught it blooming. I love its chubby little bracts.
What are YOU waiting on??

Gina1960 said:....for blooms. Heliconia sharonii is one of my favorites. A smaller growing 'dwarf' variety, easy to manage. Its a winter bloomer so any time now right? This was it last time I caught it blooming. I love its chubby little bracts.

What a pretty bloom on that cutie ... We need pictures for the database Heliconia (Heliconia stricta 'Sharonii')

~ "What am I waiting on"? I'm trying to get packing finished for our move back to our home in Sebastian in a couple of weeks and I'm really anticipating getting all of my container plants moved back down there.

I waiting for my amaryllis (APPLE BLOSSOM) to bloom again this February (approximately)
this was last year.






I'm trying to grow here Heliconia Rostrata as well.

Ron, that is beautiful! Thanks for the heads up Lin, photo submitted!

That is a pretty colored Amaryllis, Ron. Like I said before, Gina you have such an abundance of plants, that is a nice looking Heliconia.

I

The unfortunate thing about heliconias is that if they are not in bloom, they are usually just big broad leaf tropical plants. But when they do put up the inflo it makes the waiting all worth it. Sharon is cool because it has deep maroon undersides on the leaves so it has some color interest even if not in bloom. I recently got these Heliconia zebrina 'Inca' which are the most interesting Heliconia I currently have...the leaves look almost like a Calathea tigrina but more velvety. These are small right now but I think when they grow larger they will be show stoppers