Wigan Album
Aspull
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Photo: Frank Orrell
Item #: 34268
June bought the plant whilst on holiday in Estartit, Spain, 7 years previously and it eventually produced flowers for the first time in February 1996.
I love exotic plants,and that is one beauty.
Is that snow.
I doubt Bird of Paradise growing in a garden here Sue, and if it was left out in cold snow it would soon die as they come from South Africa needing hot conditions to grow.
I've always admired Bird of Paradise plants, I even tried to grow some from seed once, but no joy. There was a massive Bird of Paradise plant in one of the hothouses at Haigh Hall along with other large exotic plants, wonder what happened to all those plants when those greenhouses were demolished?
Cyril,one of the corridors at (long gone now) Hospital had various exotic plants on the windowsill..one day I was admiring them,and was told that they all started off as cuttings from the hothouses st Haigh Hall...I wonder where they all went.
That's a good point Cyril.