Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Zingiber & Curcuma Dormancy, 1 by birdlady_liz

birdlady_liz wrote:
Deb,
Just dig around with your fingers and see if you can fell any viable rhizome. Since zedoaria and elata are both spring bloomers and many things can factor in as to which one will come up first. We had a weird winter here and many things are as much as 4-6 weeks behinf on returning from dormancy.
Liz
Here is a picture of one of my curcuma 'Raspberry' spring blooming, later in the summer it will send inflorescence up from the center of each plant, kewl... it does both.