Not long ago GB did a posting of some Bird of Paradise flowers (Strelizia sp.) in New Zealand. They reminded me that Mrs Davies, our next door neighbour when we were children, had one in her little conservatory. On the rare occasions that it flowered we were all invited around to admire it. On one of those visit in the mid 1960s I took a slide of it. I’ve just found the slide and scanned it in.
