So Bill, what happened, as it's now 2016 growing season.

I planted it all out last summer (2015) and it grew like crazy, but no flowers. I dug it out in the fall, and kept in in the basement along with cannas, callas and Hymenocallis (Peruvian daffodil). I planted all of these about three weeks ago. The callas and cannas are doing great. The Hymenocallis are just starting to show green above the soil. But no sign of the Hedychiums at all.

I bought one May 19th (lol), and I'm thinking of keeping potted till I see flowers (hopefully next year). Then I'll divide and spread it around.

You're a zone warmer than I am, so maybe you could divide it (if it's big enough) and leave some in the pot for "safekeeping" indoors over winter, and plant the other half in the ground where you think it would survive. Mine grew WAY better in the ground last year than it had EVER grown in the pot. Much larger, stronger stems and leaves, and it made a lot of new roots ("bulbs").

That's my plan...and yes, pretty much everything grows better in the ground.

I note after several decades of trying and sometimes succeeding in getting blooms from various tropicals , it seems many need the brightest light possible , short of getting sunburned , to produce blooms nearly all year , though a few after three or four months of excellent light outdoors for the summer , may squeeze out a few blooms if it's bright enough indoors , having moved them inside for the winter , but depending on summer growth it may succeed only half way with racemes and other types of blooms only reaching half way or less in their normally month or longer bloom cycles before the shoots stop growing and all the buds produced have finished blooming long before they would in brighter light. You never can predict however before trying them with some only needing a few months of bright light to trigger bloom cycles.

I'm kinda spoiled maybe, with neighbors with bananas, myself having passifloras, palms, crinums, hymenocallis and others that people think of as tropicals growing happily in my neighborhood/zone. Now if I can just get the hedychium, agapanthus africanus and alocasias I have in pots to successfully make it outdoors next year (I'll hedge bets with some inside of each, at least if they do well enough to make me want to keep them...so far so good). All those last three were purchased together as 1 1/2 inch pots and just got moved into the house about a week ago, before our first frost. All are now gallon pot sized, the agapanthus is pushing a flower stalk, the hedychium is about six to eight stems, the alocasia is about 3 foot high, with foot wide leaves.

Zone pushers! :) Of course my "tender" passiflora started growing in February outside last year...and laughed at all the freezes (to my surprise). Then again, it wasn't much of a winter.

I guess , had I not lived in southern CA for about six years a few decades back , I'd not understand how living in tropical or sub tropical climates would make someone take so many plants in many local landscapes so much for granted and not until I moved back to my home state of Michigan did I begin to look at such plants as birds of paradise and agapanthus as "exotics" but was determined to grow just a few as summer plants outdoors and indoor for the winter , with all the problems having enough heat , good light, and relatively high humidity for some , would pose , but sometimes we just unintentionally do have the right conditions and my house always being on the warm side all winters posed problems for blooming plants that need cooler highs to set blooms for the following spring , though finding some old chilly window locations solved that one , or sometimes leaving plants outdoors into chilly weather patterns into mid to late fall before bringing them back indoors . I've tried a few of those advertised as unusually cold hardy as garden plants that wintered in flower beds and none were successful even in milder than our normal winters .