This one was labeled pink V, but it sure aint pink.
Another hedychium
Bur it sure is pretty.
Lisa, it is lovely.
That's strange, Lisa, I got one at the Mobile Botanical Gardens sale 2 years ago labeled Pink V and it is about to open for the first time. It looks like the color of it is going to be the same color as yours.
Strange coincidence.
The description in Stokes catalog is:
Very showy, lovely cream colored flowers with salmon throats; large flowers with citrus fragrance. Blooms from June to frost. Grows 6 ft to7 ft. Medium sun. Zone 7 and higher.
Lisa, it seems to fit the description and is beautiful.
There is another one called "Pink Flame", whose name is also.misleading. You would think the flower would be pink. Wrong. It's white with a orangey-pink spot on the the lip.
According to Dave Skinner, there is a lot of confusion in the identification of a lot of the hedychiums, apparently because many of them are so similar.
Gingers are still probably my favorite flower. The are so pretty and most of them smell so good, and they are so easy to grow.
Kay
Thank you for the information. I guess it is labeled correctly after all. It is a pretty one. I love gingers also.
I thought salmon was a pinkish color???????
Guess I need to research color palettes better.
LOL!!!!!
Janet
Janet, I think it IS a pinkish color with a little orangey cast.
I find that on the ginger descriptions most of them say they are pink, when they truly are not like a baby pink.
Elizabeth is always described as "raspberry pink", which I thought had a slightly purplish cast to it. My Elizabeth has a slightly orangey cast to it. Who knows. Maybe it's not really Elizabeth.
Dave Skinner told me by e-mail last year that he had bought Elizabeth several times before he got the real one.
Kay