Gingers in my garden

[Texeltropics]

Hi Just wanted to show some gingers I grow here in Holland....Gingers are my favourite...

[Texeltropics]

and some more

[Kailua_Krish]

Beautiful! I've been trying to increase the number of gingers in my collection.

-Krishna

[Kumar]

Beautiful, now all you need to do is add some to your tea !

[Kailua_Krish]

I dont think the roots of Hedychium are usually eaten. A few species might be used for herbal medicine and I think the flowers are edible but I'm not sure.

-Krishna

[palmmermaid]

Beautiful! I love gingers.

If I remember correctly Zingiber officinales is the edible species.

[aussiearoids]

Etlingera Darwin Hybrid or it could be Evitas Rose

Costus productus cv. Maroon chalice , this has great stems as well .

Costus villosissimus , or better still Porcupine ginger.

Zingiber newmanii , Red frog Ginger .

Afraid to admit i might have nearly as many gingers as I do palms

[aussiearoids]

This is a hybrid Zingiber , cannot tell the difference between Amber & Champagne .

they are all very early flowering like the parent macradenium .

spectabile [NOT spectabilis like most say] is later flowering

pictured here still small compared to the more coloured hybrid

here is a batch of flowers picked from plantings of a batch of hybrid seedlings

at 'The Good Doctors' property further up the road in Whyanbeel .

Many Zingibers can be prone to virus rot problems in wet winters .

A whole 100m row died one year , and many of these hybrids died another year .

[ariscott]

Wow.... are they really that bad in wet winter?? I haven't heard that happening here...

Regards, Ari

[Xenon]

Beautiful pictures! Are there any Hedychium sp. and Alpinia sp.(besides A. zerumbet) that can take a light freeze without going dormant?

Thanks,

Jonathan

Edited November 6, 2010 by Xenon

[alan.oz]

Jonathon

There is no real problem with Hedychium dying back after a light freeze as they flower on new seasons growth the next spring/summer.

Different story though with Alpinia as they flower on the previous seasons growth and need to retain foliage

during winter. Probably the most cold tolerant is Alpinia japonica.

There is an excellent book "Hardy Gingers" by T.M.E. Branney

[Xenon]

Jonathon

There is no real problem with Hedychium dying back after a light freeze as they flower on new seasons growth the next spring/summer.

Different story though with Alpinia as they flower on the previous seasons growth and need to retain foliage

during winter. Probably the most cold tolerant is Alpinia japonica.

There is an excellent book "Hardy Gingers" by T.M.E. Branney

Thanks, Alan, just don't like looking at nothing in winter.

Jonathan

[Kailua_Krish]

Plant some paperwhites in the same place, they come up in winter and are done by spring

-Krishna

[Texeltropics]

these Zingiber and Costus species are great! I have to keep them in pots...and keep them in winter indoors...

only some hedychium species will survive our winters with no problem And offcourse Rosçoea's don't mind winter at all..