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Posted By: debbie dee bird of paradise - July 7th, 2005 at 11:44 AM
We have recently planted 2 large (6-7 foot) Bird of Paradise. One of the plants has beautiful orange flowers & the other plant has white flowers. What do we do? or is the other a different breed? They get exactly the same amount of sun but are planted on either side of our front walk way.
Posted By: tkhooper Re: bird of paradise - July 8th, 2005 at 01:46 AM
There are white bird of paradise. There isn't anything you can do that's just the plant. I got a burgandy canna that I wasn't expecting this year too. I just consider it a blessing and keep on taking care of it.
Posted By: papito Re: bird of paradise - July 12th, 2005 at 07:24 PM
Hi dDebbie Dee,

I pm'd you this info on July 7.

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Hi Debbie Dee,

Welcome to the Gardener's Forum.

You have two different varieties of BoP.

The orange colored one is S. Reginae:

http://www.floridata.com/ref/S/stre_reg.cfm

and the White one is S. Nicolai:

http://www.floridata.com/ref/S/stre_nic.cfm
Posted By: atreus Re: bird of paradise - July 12th, 2005 at 09:49 PM
You are really lucky over there in Cali, I bought a couple of rootstock plants to grow in pots (here in UK) and even in our hottest maddest summers al I ever get is maybe one or two leaves.

Sooooo envious...... smile
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