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Gardening Know How Questions & Answers - https://questions.gardeningknowhow.comI had a good composting system working. I had heard that Bird of Paradise leaves were not good for composting. Is that true?
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1 Comment To "Composting Bird of Paradise leaves"
#1 Comment By theficuswrangler On 07/28/2014 @ 3:04 pm
I had never heard that, and in my (rather short) research, I couldn’t find any mention of it. A couple people thought bird of paradise hard to compost because it doesn’t break down easily, or tends to take root instead of composting. However, I didn’t see any mention of the plant as alleopathic (https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/allelopathic-plants.htm [1]
Also, if a compost heap is working properly, the plants will neither root nor fail to decompose:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/basics/ultimate-beginners-guide-composting.htm [2]