Alpinia Species, Sander's Ginger, Striped Narrow-Leaf Ginger, Variegated Ginger

I live in Fort Lauderdale and this ginger seems very happy here. It is located in the Northeast corner of my yard with 4-5 hours of direc...Read Moret sun and light shade from a Cabada palm and Fiddle leaf ficus. It grows to about 4 to 5 feet and has a strong but pleasant ginger fragrance when cut. Make sure you give this ginger enough space to spread and thicken. The foliage is very attractive and has a "lux" look as it grows.

Gorgeous foliage. Grew up to 5' tall and even blossomed one summer. Died in the hard freezes we had the last two winters. When I cut the ...Read Moredead foliage down, it actually smelled like the culinary ginger!

This year I will put up hoops and cover the suckers before a freeze.

Right now I'm saying neutral. I know this plant is finicky, but when I ordered the plant from Hawaii it looked awesome. I sent it to Puer...Read Moreto Rico to a friend for the winter, and there, he said it grew very slowly. Now that I have it here, I don't seem to be doing well with it, it does not seem to like the greenhouse at all. It is a beautiful plant, and I do love it, though.

I will update if I can get some info on how to keep it happier.

This does not seem to grow taller than two feet. I have kept my plant in the shade and the marbled creamish variegation reduced drastical...Read Morely and the dark green colour was prominent.