Heliconia Augusta - 'Red Christmas'

A beautiful evergreen perennial with attractive, bright red bracts from June to September.  The large, green leaves grow up to 1.8M long.
Uses:  This Heliconia is well suited to tropical gardens, and the flower stalks make useful indoor decorations.
Position: Prefers a humus rich, well drained soil in a protected, warm location.
Care: Remove spent flower stalks, Keep moist during growing season.
Planting:  Cultivate soil before planting.  Dig hole twice the width of the container.  Remove plant from container and place into the hole so the soil leves is the same as surrounding ground.  Fill hole firmly and water in well even if the soil is moist.
Plant:  Part Shade
Height to 1M
Keep moist
Likes warm to hot conditions
Good in pots
Prune spent flowers.

Greg spotted these plants on a gardening/home renovation show.  Purchased one plant and popped it in behind the pool.  Purchased a second plant in a 7" pot with a view to subdividing plant when it finished flowering.
By the time it finished flowering, the pot was bursting.

18-10-18
First step was to soak the pot in a bucket of water to make subdividing easier.

Subdivided plant, we got 14 plants from the one pot, it was so root bound it was difficult to divide, a couple of tubers were lost in the dividing so fingers crossed not too many of the 14 will succumb to shock or whatever.

 Mixed cheap potting mix with Organic fertiliser, watered the plants in well.
Located in Utility area - very little sun until they establish then will move them to a part sun part shade position before re-locating to the pool fence area.

Just realised looking at pic, forgot to prune off the flower...ooops....job for tomorrow.

20-10-18 
Lots of watering, a little seasol, so far so good.

Next step is to clear out stones from garden bed along pool fence, add lots of 'Moo Poo' soil conditioner, organic fertiliser and plant these Heliconias into the bed, relay nice new rocks, after of course the rhizomes have formed a decent root ball.