Flamboyant, easy to grow, pest free and making great cut flowers, they truly are a valuable garden plant. Heliconias are native to Central and South America and some of the islands of the South ...

Irene Hennessy and her husband, Ian, have been developing and growing heliconias and gingers for almost 10 years on their park-style rural garden at Noonamah, south of Darwin. Many of their gingers ...

Heliconias originate from the rainforest where they grow as understory plants. In Central and South Florida, they are grown as landscape plants and in cut flower gardens. The flowers produced and the ...

In their jungle homes, heliconias often grow along the banks of streams and reach out over the water toward the sunlight. But that doesn’t mean they all are sun worshipers, says Flamingo Gardens ...

Even though their foliage alone is enough to stamp a landscape as tropical, heliconias and gingers owe their popularity to the showy bracts that surround their flowers. Some species bloom during ...

Although heliconias and gingers are not related they share similarities and in general are grown under the same conditions. The banana-like heliconia leaves make them popular in garden stands because ...