Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Dave's garden, 0 by RalphK

RalphK wrote:
We have had several gingers in our yard in Biloxi MS. The" white" blooms profusely every year. The "red" has never bloomed but it has great foliage. Yesterday morning we discovered that what we suspected to be a bloom pod was in fact a group of shell like bracts that are white with pink to red tips. I went to google and searched all of the "red" gingers and nothing looked like it. So I asked google for "gingers" scanned several sites and sure enough at "Dave's Garden" there was a picture of our "red" ginger with the exact same bloom. It turned out to be Alpinias zerumbet. Here is a photo of the bloom today. According to your postors it should open into a beautiful red and yellow bloom. Thank's Dave,
Ralph K