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Heliconia ‘Hot Rio Nights’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Heliconia ’Hot Rio Nights’
Smaller and far more free flowering than the big erect heliconias, ‘Hot Rio Nights’ throws slender upright bracts in hot red and orange with yellow and green tips, almost continuously through the warm months in tropical gardens. Heliconia psittacorum hybrids of this type spread steadily by rhizome to form a self-renewing colony rather than a single clump, which is exactly what you want from a mass filler under palms. The stems cut well and hold for over a week in a vase.
Why Hot Rio Nights Heliconia
Near Continuous Flowering: In warm humid districts it produces flower stems for most of the year rather than in a single burst.
Colonising Habit: Rhizomes travel steadily to knit a bed together, so gaps close on their own.
Manageable Height: Roughly half the size of the large erect heliconias, so it works in normal garden beds.
Cut Flower Quality: Straight, slim, long-lasting stems that suit domestic arrangements.
Fast Recovery: Cutting spent stems to the ground brings a fresh flush away quickly in warm weather.
Ideal Applications
Mass Planting Under Palms: The standard tropical filler for the layer between trunks and ground cover.
Cut Flower Patch: Productive enough to supply the house year round in Queensland and the Top End.
Poolside Colour: Bright bracts and clean foliage around pool and entertaining areas.
Large Planters: Suits big containers where the rhizome spread needs containing.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.8 to 1.2m for a continuous mass
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5m
Best Planting Season: Spring through summer, or at the start of the wet season in the tropics
Soil & Drainage: Rich, free-draining soil with plenty of organic matter and reliable moisture. Frost free conditions are essential and cold wet winter soil will rot the rhizomes
Establishment Care: Keep the bed evenly moist through the first warm season and feed every six to eight weeks with a complete fertiliser. Mulch generously, and cut spent flowering stems to ground level to keep the colony producing.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5 to 2.5m
Width: Spreads by rhizome, allow 1 to 1.5m per plant and expect a colony over time
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun in the humid tropics, filtered sun or part shade in subtropical gardens
Native to: A garden hybrid, its parent species from tropical South America and the Caribbean
Flower Colour: Red to orange bracts tipped with yellow and green
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







