Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hedychium ellipticum is flowering!, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Hi Dave, I think the Pacific NW may be a similar climate to here, but they may get more rain.

I have had this in the greenhouse with door and window open, it gets morning sun and shade in the afternoon. We have had a very hot summer, often in high 20's C and even over 30C. It hasn't worried it at all, but Florida is perhaps much hotter, night temps also.

I could smell it today, it does have a spicy scent, the more you sniff it the better it gets, dare I say it has an almost ginger scent?

I grow Roscoea auriculata, the clump is congested now (needs dividing) but has set seed around and I grew some from seed from it, they are mature and in their 6th year in pots waiting for a place in the ground.

I started a H forrestii this year also, it's not huge yet but is supposed to be hardy.

I found a site with H ellipticum listed, Montosa Gardens

http://www.montosogardens.com/zingiberales_collection.htm

in Peurto Rico in the mountains it will be cooler, what an ideal climate that must be!

Other than that I have my seed grown one which I don't have a clue about as it was a mix and I only got one, it's gone mad and is throwing up lots of really thick stems, the pot is 38cm diameter. It started to grow early January inside, it keeps it's stems over winter and I think next year should produce flowers. It really needs dividing, when it starts to grow again next year it will have nowhere to go!