Gary, your garden is full of surprises, pretty ginger!

Silvia

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Isn't it amazing how different the flower is while the foliage is so similar ??

Love gingers but there are so many problems with them. Best I've come up with is to grow them in pots so when they go dormant you can move them to an out of the way place I know there are evergreen types which I also have but lack the fantastic forms and aromas of the seasonals .plus some get gigatic!! lol Thanks gary

Gary, that is a good idea about growing them in pots, I love gingers too and especially the ones that have a nice scent but my space is limited and so is my shade.
I always get good ideas from your posts. I love to learn new tips!

Silvia

I am starting over with basically a blank canvas but this time I'm keeping all my gingers and heliconias in pots. I'm with Gary re: the pots. I love the look of gingers and heliconias, but they just grow too well in Florida and I'm over spending all my time trying to keep everything manageable!

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I find the pots not only provide rich enough soil to provide enough moisture they also allow you to keep it drier during the dormancy. Have been growing the so called "hidden gingers " in a bath tub works great BUT they overran the siamese tulips don't have a one this year The globba in the pic reproduces from little berries and they manage to get into every pot I have lol Between those and the Pine cone gingers they've overrun the shadehouse Have always wanted my garden to be evergreen if not everblooming. Alpinia does that but it gets around 15 feet high !!

Going to try Hedichiums as marsh plants to see how that works but the marsh is in dense shade Time will tell I guess?? lol gary

I love the globbas best as well. If only they had a fragrance, they would be perfect lol. I still have my Blue Hawaii and Sangria globbas. I keep all my globbas in pots and let them dry out in the fall when they start to go dormant and stack the dry pots in the shed until about april. Then I pull them out and give them a little drink and put them in the shade until they emerge then move to dappled shade/part sun. I could leave them out in the ground here but something seems to dig them up and eat the globba tubers. Armadillos are what I suspect. They left the turmeric and other gingers alone :/

I have been slowly collecting Hedychiums and have quite a few varieties now. They really get huge here but are very fragrant and the bees and butterflies love them.

The Hedychiums sure do love moisture and full sun. I don't have mine in straight water or a swamp though. It will be interesting to see how yours perform. If canna can grow in a bog, I guess the hedychiums could as well.

I also have Costus speciosis, Shampoo ginger, and Kaempferia grande, and a bunch of turmeric (curcuma longa growing in the front border of my veggie garden).

Globbas

Zingiber officiale- pictured below (a 'grocery store' ginger root I planted in a pot for fun- it made cones and flowered)

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Your pics are so much better than mine lol The globbas do have the most exotic looking flowers particularly those that have the colored brachts .

. Have seen the brachts in white, purple, magenta lavender but the true flower is always yellow. Is this separate species or just different color varieties?? Have noted many have cultivar names ??

A real thug if into neat gardens lol

Since my canopy has matured I have a choice of shade ,shadier and black out lol Have been experimenting with fancy leaf calatheas as a replacement

They are evergreen , have incredible leaves and very low light requirements Some have spectacular flowers but the squirrels find them delicious One survived this summer not the real showy varoety though lol

Great photos, Gary and Sultry Jasmine Nights! Those globbas are gorgeous! I, unfortunately, have lots of heliconias and some gingers planted out in my garden. Especially the heliconias are constant maintenance. I am always torn between loving them and hating them. They are certainly beautiful, but take up so much time to have them looking good.