Heliconias

Description

Description

Say hello to these Heliconias; and if you have been calling these flowers ‘Bird of Paradise’ like I have, then you’ll have to add the word ‘false’ to it as this flowering plant is commonly known as the “False Bird of Paradise” due to their similarity to Strelitzia flowers, which also goes by the name ‘Bird of Paradise’.

Native to South and Central America and the Southwest Pacific Islands,
Heliconia is named after Mount Helicon, the seat of the Muses of the arts and sciences. Heliconia represents youth, pride, and great returns.

I’m not surprised that these gorgeous flowers, with their bright yellow orange colour, and leaves like that of the banana’s, is named after the Goddess of artistic inspiration; for they bloomed and danced in the breeze and rains and got me to pick up my brush and how!!