Zingiber Species, Edible Ginger, Japanese Ginger, Myoga Ginger

plant does very well in Washington state, winters well and comes up early spring , Cold Hardy, second year we had enough to divided and ...Read Moreshare with neighbors and a good harvest of flowers/ shoots , use well draining light soil, we have in full sun and watered deep, about every 4 days through out summer,, i did not realize this was so hard to acquire, and will see if i can get new shoots to share come next spring

Basically re-posting this from the Zingiber mioga "Dancing Crane" entry since I have both varieties and the comment applies equally to bo...Read Moreth:

I have been growing this plant (both the base variety & Dancing Crane) in Fayetteville, PA for the past 3, almost 4 years. During its first winter in the ground (2013-2014), we had a near record low of -17 degrees Fahrenheit (as monitored by a nearby nursery/USDA temp recording station), yet it started coming up the last two weeks of April, and has done so every year so far. I did not use any kind of cold protection on it, So it is definitely hardy to Zone 6.

Great plant for light/part shade areas, and makes a nice complement with Hostas (tall, narrow stems & leaves with large stemless leaf clusters).

My biggest plant has also flowered since its second year in the ground, pushing up clusters of white, orchid-like flowers at ground level, and usually blooms from early September until the first hard frost kills the plants back sometime in the middle of October.