Is it a real common one? What does its flower look like? THANKS
Anyone know the name of this ginger?
Looks like the variegated Shell Ginger (Alpina Zurumbet?sp?). I have a bunch that started blooming this year after about 3 years in the ground...The flowers look like Shell Ginger...are mildly fragrant...light shade/bright indirect light/some sun with lots of water. Don't you just love the leaves?
Carol
yep, that's what it is. Here we just grow them for the foliage as we freeze every year... but that's okay.. makes a nice splash in the garden
MzM, they flower here and they get HUGE!
I have not seen any blooms in mine. It is a lovely plant. In the fall, the variegation is so marked (at least in my area) that makes people stop. People plant them around trees, they get huge, and its appearance in the fall is simply stunning. The only thing that bothers them is too much sun, they get crispy and ugly (but they recuperate when it cools down).
Kell, I wouldnt say common (like ligustrum) but it's easy to maintain in our area there's lots of it around. Too bad I didn't know you were interested, I just shared my divisions in the trade forum. I'm sure I'll be dividing again next spring.
THANKS so much Vossner, but that one there is mine. LOL. It is huge.
I am wondering if it will make it outside this winter. I didn't have the name to look up the temps it will survive. I haven't seen it here outside in others gardens. But then I never see much of what I grow in others' gardens.
I have so much I need to move inside, my husband is going to kill me, deader than usual.
Thanks all. I do love it.
I would leave it out. If it dies I will gladly send you some. I read somewhere else that they were root hardy up to z7.
Morning Kell -
Looks a lot like Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata'. Mine does fine outside in filtered sun all day. The winter rain/chill doesn't seem to bother it at all. I cut mine down to the ground in May of this year because it tends to want to be HUGE. Mine seldon flowers, but the flowers are pretty small and insignificant (although really pretty close-up). It needs space!
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/55265/
I want to know how you are going to move all your plants, Candy. You have so much invested in them and I am not just talking just money. All are just gorgeous!! Thanks for the info.
Thanks Vossner. I sure am hoping for a mild winter.
Well the plan is........
Pretend you are going to a nursery everyday for a couple of months and bring a shovel.
Dig and can or bag each plant you dig up.
Load the car and drive 40 miles.
Plant in new location.
Sounds simple enough......something you and I do pretty much all the time anyway. :-)
The plan is based on having tilled, amended and prepared all the beds at the new place, having the garden walls built to surround the acre of ground around the house and installed the sprinkler system. Also having the pond(s) dug, lined, plumbed and balanced ahead of time so the fish can be moved. And having disassembled and reassembled the greenhouse to stand on a new raised foundation (about 3' off the ground, which will give a lot more headroom).
I'll also have to come up with some shade initially for some things I'm sure. Am thinking of some sort of staked shade cloth covers or perhaps a couple of those big $89 "carport" awning thingies they sell at HD type stores.
I'm trying to focus on the "fun" part of digging up things and planting them again in their new home! My thoughts are to have several months to move things while the house is being built......time will tell.
Calla...... you are so lucky!! I couldn't even get one to bloom stage over where I use to live either... How long is the bloom spike that hangs??
I'm thinking they were about a foot long, I didn't even know they flowered and we were measuring a house and turned the corner and there they were. Took me a minute to figure out what they were, lol, I'd never seen them bloom!
There are some Hedychiums that live outdoors all year long in the Chinese Garden in Portland, OR. Seems they mulch them heavily and of course they die back in the winter so the mulch can be heavy. It is a huge stand of them. You might try that!!
Carol
Kell - I live in zone 9a and have this ginger in the ground for about three years. They survive fine outdoors and in the ground. (Where in Northern CA are you?) I cut off the branches that are frost damaged and leave the rest. I got two blooms this year. As happenstance pointed out, the flowers are not that spectacular from far away, but interesting nonetheless.