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This is my first Bird of Paradise bloom, so i'd thought i'd share it with you.

Heres a picture of it last nite:



and then this morning :





Hope you enjoy these pictures, im excited to see if it blooms anymore? Or how long it will last?

BK

Absolutely beautiful!!! How old is this plant?? I have had mine for 3 years now and keep hoping one day it will bloom.

just wanted you to know i editied the pics so they would fit on the page and load up right for those of us with dialup.

great pics

Sorry for the size.. here are the new flowers now, i'll link them for the 56k impaired

http://www.bkriz.com/Orchids/Sept24bloom.jpg

http://www.bkriz.com/Orchids/Sept24bloom2.jpg

http://www.bkriz.com/Orchids/Sept24bloom3.jpg

those are beautiful. we don't mind them being in the post, we just have to make sure they will fit! so, here they are...

Gorgeous!
My two are maybe 10" tall, so it'll be a while until I see results like that!
Barb

bryson, after looking at those pics (maybe a dozen times, they are gorgeous!) i have to ask. is that a houseplant? looks like it to me.

Its a Bird Of Paradise, and i have it growing indoors in my planter. I'm sure you know that thou

what kind of light is it getting? i've never grown a bop as a house plant. looks cool!

I love BOP's & this plant looks in really good health. Do you get bothered by scale or red spider mite?

I currently grow my Strelitzia regina as a houseplant (it goes on the patio during summer) but am being slowly tempted to plant it outdoors. Perhaps next year... In the mean time, I'm keeping going to keep it in an unheated greenhouse to see how it fares this winter.

Currently I also have a White Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia Augusta/Alba). I've recently bought it indoors to protect it from the autumn wind that assails the Cornish coast at this time of year. It hasn't flowered yet (probably got another 2-3 years to go) but is already about 6.5 feet tall. It's just pushed out a new leaf which is about 2x the size of its last one & the stem is growing at the rate of 1inch per day. I can't help feeling that this might be the leaf that is going to hit the ceilng - what'll I do then??!

That is a very pretty BoP. We have alot of those around here as landscaping around businesses and they just dont look that nice at all. In fact I really didn't know how pretty BoP was till I saw these pics.