Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Pictures and Gardens #104, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Nice ixora, Franco! Stick the leaves under the shower once in a while - they will love the rain. People here grow ixora as hedges.

Debra, my gingers do like some sun in order to bloom. The hedychiums get 3 to 4 hours, and the costus and pinecone gingers at least a couple of hours of morning sun. The costus never bloomed until we thinned the oak tree above them. The only ones that bloom in shade are the little groundcover kaempferia Peacock Gingers, and the Alpinias. Still they have dappled light under the bougainvilleas and oak trees . Being further north, your sun is not as strong as ours either, so they might take even more sun up there in Kansas.