Peter says living in the tropics is an advantage for growing Heliconias.
If it's grown in deeper shade, the flowers will be more yellow. And 'Halloween' which has a more orange coloured flower if grown in full sun. 'Daintree', or 'Sunset' which grows to about 1.5 to 3.5 metres and would be good for a suburban garden. 'Lobster Claw Two' with its classical Heliconia shape. 'Richmond Red' - which is nice and chunky and has a beautiful vibrant red colour. It's a clumping variety, meaning that the bottom of the plant will stay contained within its area. 'Sexy Red' which has a pendular or hanging flower. 'Bucky', an upright, erect creeping Heliconia with new rhizomes that can emerge up to three to 500mm away from the existing plant.
Peter lists some of his favourite Heliconias: They originated in tropical, central and South America, and come in different sizes, from about a metre, up to an impressive 4 or 5 metres. There are more than 200 species and countless cultivars of Helicona. But the flower is actually the little white bits in the middle - that's where the stamen and pollen are. Most people think the specialised outer leaf or bract is the flower. But for most gardeners the flowers are the main attraction. Heliconias are closely related to bananas - the shape of the leaves are quite lush and dramatic. He's been growing Heliconias on the farm since 1989. He has 5 hectares of Heliconias under cultivation and this produces roughly 2 tonne of cut flowers a week, for up to eight months of the year. His farm is in Howard Springs, just south of Darwin. Peter Jettner is a commercial Heliconia grower and has one of the largest collections in the Northern Territory. The flower has both male parts (anthers) and female parts (stigma and pistil), also referred to as a hermaphroditic angiosperm.A joy of being a Top End gardener is that you can grow some of the world's most spectacular tropical plants, like the absolutely beautiful Heliconia. In other words, it is well capable of pollinating itself, any use of pollinators can do more harm than good. Psittacorum naturally prefers the absence of pollinators for pollination. Unlike most species of plants that require the use of pollinators for pollination the H. It is often cultivated as a tropical ornamental plant in regions outside its native range. It is reportedly naturalized in Gambia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles.
It is considered native to French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago. Heliconia psittacorum ( parrot's beak, parakeet flower, parrot's flower, parrot's plantain, false bird-of-paradise) is a perennial herb native to the Caribbean and South America.
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