Tropicals & Tender Perennials: What type Ginger is this, 1 by birdlady_liz

birdlady_liz wrote:
Actually Alpinia Zerumbet and variegated Alpinia Zerumbet will grow through zone 8, they're actually very cold hardy. i know a few people even into zone 7 that grow A. zerumbet in protected areas and a thick layer of mulch in the winter and it comes back great. It looks horrible in too much sun, looks much better in shade/filtered light. We use Nutricoat fertilizer on our gingers and all of our other plants for that matter, on retail market it's 'Dynamite'. We use 13-13-13 with minors and in spring give a little Milorganite and super phosphate along with the time released Nutricoat. Mine that are in the garden actually bloomed last year and again this year and we're bordering zone8b and we went down to 23 2 nights in a row and were below freezing for as long as 10 hours. Other years it's been strictly a foliage plant for me.
Liz