We've been waiting 17 years!!

strelitzia reginae

Our Strelitzia reginae (bird of paradise) was planted as a seed by Mark Gibbons our QCF trainer when he was 33  years old.(In 1993.)

This week it has flowered for the first time - Mark is now 51!! He has been patiently waiting for 17 years.

Our specialist in exotic plants Mac Rzonca has been lovingly tending it and talking to it for three years and everyone has been rewarded.

We hope it will flower every year now - (although Mac will be leaving us in April  after 3 years teaching NVQ and Introduction to Gardening )- so maybe not.