Tropics Decorative Plant : Parrot Flower (Heliconia psittacorum L)
Parrot flower is popular for the various color this species has, from yellow, orange, pink, to red. Sometimes Parrot Flower grows in colors like rainbow in a single flower.
Due to it’s natural beauty, parrot flower (Heliconia psittacorum L) is commonly planted in gardens or as plant fence.
Parrot flower loves sunshine in half, and this plant is close to decorative banana. Both in Heliconia family. The different is, if decorative banana’s flower is hanging on the standing plant, parrot flower grow on top of it.
The leaves of parrot flower shapes not so far different from banana and decorative banana with light green color.
Parrot Flower of Heliconia psittacorrum L is tropics plant, it love sunshine to grow the flowers and the colors.
Unique Banana : Decorative Banana (Heliconia)
Heliconia is also called ‘decorative banana plant‘. Named with banana, because this plant has leaves which exactly look like banana leaves. Heliconia is a tropics plant, so it loves sunshine and warmth.
Heliconia has reed like stem. The flower is very unique, hanging down to the standing plant, with bright red in the centre and yellow color in the edges.
Easy Care with Modern Tropics Garden
Modern tropics garden is applying two different garden elements, it can be the combination of tropics plants, and modern hard-scape element. These two concepts will create a simple, but beautiful and easy caring garden.
Tropics plants like Heliconia, bamboo or orchid for example will look very dynamic if being managed in hard-scape designs, like geometric pool and a cylinder artificial water fountain.
The modern touch can also be created by adding a lighting effect, that will expose the burst in the middle of the fountain. To minimize the using of grass, we can put some wooden shelf/board which can also widen the terrace space.
