Every Monday, Janice Labadie, co-owner of Strelitzia Flower Company, rumbles west in the company maxivan down to the San Francisco Wholesale Flower Mart and a slew of other ranches to buy freshly cut ...

The Strelitzia reginae or bird of paradise is a dramatic plant with a very distinctive appearance. In South Africa, bird of paradise is also known as the crane flower, because it resembles a brightly ...

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If you’ve been in Tucson for a few months, you’ve no doubt noticed the ubiquitous vivid orange flowered shrubs called the bird of paradise. You may be surprised to know that there are in fact three ...

Don’t expect to find beautiful bunches of bananas, ripe or otherwise, dangling from the Natal wild banana tree. Its long leaf stalks and broad, shiny green leaves might mislead you, but the Strelitzia ...

Garth Inman has several well-established clumps of Nerine bowdenii in his garden, expanding year by year and flowering well despite less than full sun at the foot of the east-facing wall of his house.