Weather permitting they were slowly transplanted in the upper/back garden. As expected they experienced transplant shock to varying degrees. Some seemed to have died completely but new growth appeared after a few weeks. Others only had minor shocks, losing several leaves.
Some of the Lobster Claw heliconias already established in their new home in the upper garden.
A solitary clump of young Lobster Claw begins to bloom. With surrounding weeds cleared it looked even more alone.
More Lobster Claws in the upper garden, some displaying new blooms.
These Lobster Claws are competing for attention amid thick, persistent weeds.
With all the weeds in the background, this heliconia is a sight for sore eyes.
What I love about Lobster Claws are their colorful flowers that look interestingly unusual and that they bloom year round at intermittent intervals. So you never know where in the garden the next blooms will appear and when. And even though this plant is now widely and sometimes over cultivated, to me its exotic appeal never diminishes. A proof to this is the existence of more of this plant all over the upper garden.
"Claw me, claw thee" is an old German/Dutch idiom which means "stand by me and I'll stand by you" or sometimes "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine".
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Oh those look lovely, and you have so much room to display them as features in the the garden.
I am not fascinated by them anymore, because in our place i've seen a lot, and i've cut a lot of them already, dumped them to the compost area! After a typhoon, most especially, i do that! I also cut a lot of dracaenas which are already as tall as half as the electric post. If only there are nearby cultural centers or big hotels which use the dracaena stems with some sprouts as corner decors, they will look lovely. I had a big pile to decompose now!
They are definitely beautiful and unique. Not like the usual flowers at all.
Hello Africanaussie,
Thanks. I am also contemplating on using them as screen to hide the not-so-good to look at structures :)
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Hi Andrea,
If you have more than plenty of these plants then why not sell the flowers to a local flower shop? This could give you an extra income, don't you think? Floral arrangements using exotic flowers like these, other heliconias, red ginger, beehive gingers, torch gingers, etc. are sold at a higher price than the common garden flowers.
You could do the same for your dracaenas, cut them into small pieces, put them in decorative pots and sell them online as gift items, etc.
That is what I plan to do with our plants once they've multiplied to a point where they're just too many; harvest some of the flowers and sell them or arrange them for indoor use.
Your 'trash' are much welcome in our garden... hehehe
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Hello One,
I agree with you. That is why I wonder why Andrea is just throwing them away when she could make money from it.
I guess if you have too much of something, it eventually becomes bland and boring.
beautiful. they're pretty common in our area too.
happy gardening!
~ANGEL~
Hello Angel,
Yes they are now pretty common, and have reached a point where they are now intensely disliked by some. But as they say, "one man's trash is another man's treasure" :-)
Happy gardening to you too!!!
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