CLOSED: anyone want some white butterfly ginger ?

I have plenty of white butterfly ginger that needs to be traded so if you have other gingers, hosta, elephant ears, or winter hardy tropicals (anything that will come back the next year) let me know if you want to make a trade. Thanks

I would be interested, let me check and see what I can tempt you with. Sure I have several that would be hardy in your area. Are you interested in any vines, passiflora, etc. ?

Looks beautiful, but definitely would hate living in Maine, oh well.

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I believe this is only hardy up to zone 8a. Anyone have any experience in zone 7 with this?

I have them here Smilin - 7b, that's the old zone, now they are calling it 8.

Same for me in NE Texas.

Dayflower, I have a GF here fr Morgan City & she has this plant that looks to me to be either a ginger or hosta. It has brown & I mean brown leaves. It sends up a 'stem' & then flowers. Are familiar with this plant?
I don't know what it is but it is definitely interesting. She has given me many to help thin out her beds. I also have some baby (only for now) Elephant ears. Want to trade?

Smockette, I attended a plant sale over the weekend in Baton Rouge and so happened there was a "brown leafed" plant. I was drawn to it like a moth to a flame.....it was the one you were talking about...it is called a chocolate plant. Naturally, I bought it! Also I found another different one, it was called the "peanut butter plant" you crush or mash the leaf and it smells like peanut butter....had to have it too; so I went home hungry.... ready for a Reases Pieces

Dayflower, I took one to work. I work on a treefarm & one of my salesgirl's told me it was a chocolate plant but..... when I looked chocolate plant up on google that was definately not the plant we have. So we have taken to calling it the 'Not-Chocolate plant'. :~)
My GF does not remember where she got the first one but there are babies all over her back yard & her back yard is very shady after midmorning.
Got to find out what this thing is! It is driving us both crazy!

Picture ....we wanna see a picture!

OK, OK, I've been telling my husband I need a digital camera... I've taken one with my 35mm but have to wait...you know how that is....

OK, heres a picture of the Chocolate Plant...the leaves ARE BROWN and it have a very little bitty unimpressive purple flower on a small stalk up the middle. They tell me it will multiply and also come back next spring after the freeze gets it this winter (We usually get at least a 3 or 4 day winter each year)just enough to kill things down and make them have to start all over again.

It looks like some kind of basil. Are the leaves fragrant when you touch them? http://www.eseeds.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=173583&prmenbr=127&CGRY_NUM=
Oh yeah, the white butterfly ginger is hardy in zone 7a.

Hi Ellen,
I wanted to ask you to save me some of that ginger and I would like to get it next spring if you don't mind holding it over. If you prefer, I can send you a trade list and I might have something that would interest you for now. Also I would love the not chocolate and the peanut butter plants if you can get starts to them. Do you happen to know what temps. they can tolerate in the winter? I am assuming that I will have to consider them potted plants in our area. We can work up a trade next spring or anytime you plan to be in Nashville if you'd like. (I am assuming your daughter is still here.)

HI!

I would love some of your butterfly ginger. I have small plant with maybe three stocks on it and it is blooming now.....I WANT MORE. The smell is intoxicating. I want to have a nice section right outside my back patio when I can sit to drink coffe on weekend afternoons and injoy the fragrance.

I have Xanthosoma which in hardy in zone 8A the leaves are majestic. It will produce pups easily and requires no special care. Its planted under two pine trees so I assume it loves acidic soil. Take a look at the photo. The one I'm offering is the one on the left with the darker green leaves.

Also have variegated canna "Striped Beauty", hardy in your zone, grows to 2 foot, leaves are striped light green with yellow,blooms a bright yellow contrasting wiht bright red buds when blooming all summer and fall. And variegated canna Bengal Tiger, variegated yellow and green, 4 foot tall, orange blooms.


Let me know if you are interested in trading.

Thanks,

Daisy

Hi! I have some giant plume ginger-curcuma elata- I'd trade you, or black colocasia? Both are hardy in 7b

It blooms in spring and my camera was broken back then so I have no pics of the ginger, but here is what the bloom looks like: http://www.cp4.hctx.net/mercer/inbloom/may/mp1mlg.htm





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