Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Blue Ginger, 1 by birdlady_liz

birdlady_liz wrote:
Yes ma'am, they will grow from cuttings or by division. If you want to sprout cuttings lay the entire stem on it's side and partially cover with light propagation mix. This method works better than cutting up stem and sticking cuttings, it's the way Richard does it here at the nursery.
They are very hardy and would be evergreen in a zone 10 area, ours freeze back to the ground every year and just come up a little thicker each time. We even let the ones for the nursery freeze back rather than try to protect them and keep them evergreen.
They are actually related to spiderwort and wandering jew.
Not fragrant, but they're beautiful. Anice orange ginger to plant in front of it is Costus cuspidatus, it is also evergreen (in frost free areas), is onlt about 18"to 2' tal and has the most brilliant orange blooms.
I have one of my patches of Blue ginger growing in with my Zingiber zerumbet and looks really awesome this time of the year with the basal red inflorescence and the purple/blue blooms of the Dichorisandra.
Liz