Moist, but not water-logged soils in the summer months produce the best flowering. Ginger expert, Tony Schilling, says 'treat them to monsoon conditions - warm, wet and well fed in the summer, and cool and dry in the winter.' If you let your ginger lily get too dry, they will stop flowering. Gardeners need to keep this in mind when cultivating these plants. This roughly corresponds to the winter/summer cycle in temperate gardens. Water: In their native habitats, hedychium emerge during the monsoon season and are triggered to become dormant by dry weather. Other plants that compliment the exotic look of hardy gingers include acalypha, crocosmia, dahlia, amorphophallus, brugmansia, hemerocallis and curcuma. They are often combined with other hardy tropicals including canna, musa basjoo, colocasia, and other Zingiberaceae. Hedychium 'Pink Flame' How to Grow Hardy Ginger Plants in the Gardenĭesign considerations: Hedychium are loved by temperate gardeners who want to create a tropical look. We urge our readers to visit the garden during our fall Open House in order to see our collection and check out our web site to see our offerings. Thirty five years later, I would finally see ginger lilies in the wild on a botanical expedition to North Vietnam.Īt Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Gardens, we currently (2010) grow 88 accessions of hedychium in the garden, representing 11 different species and 56 hybrids. As with every OCD gardener, this would mark only the beginning of my hedychium collecting phase, which continues today. Dunham was overly generous, I went home with a huge sack of plants for my own garden. I was amazed how a plant that looked so tropical and had such fragrant flowers could be so winter hardy and easy to grow. There, in the midst of her lawn was a huge clump of hardy ginger plant in full flower. I'll never forget my first encounter as a preteen with Hedychium coronarium, when my dad took me to the garden of a local gardener, Rachel Dunham. Introduction to Hedychium (Hardy Ginger Plants)

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