Bird of paradise plant

[Kevin1908]

I bought a couple of these and  would like some advice on planting them in a Thai garden and care. The only advice I found was if it was an indoor pot plant in a temperate climate.

[McTavish]

Strelitzia like a well drained soil bed and adequate watering during dry periods.  The rhizomes will slowly spread and may be dug out to contain the plants within a smaller area.

They grow well in poor soll on sloping ground and help retain an embankment.

[Kevin1908]

Will they grow in the rocky material that they raise the land with to build on. My wife's house is built on such material as the area frequenly floods. I dug a hole to get the large and medium rocks and stones out then put in bags of compost in.

 

[Foxx]

Any dogs around will chew their juicy stems, and in a few weeks you'll have none left.

[Kevin1908]

Fortunately very few dogs around where I am. I will fence them in, the plants not the dogs, if it gets a problem.