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Gingers

Gingers (Delivery May to Sep)

50% Summer Sale on Selected Varieties!

(Please note that we may have to cut back larger plants for shipping purposes depending on time of year!)

Have you seen our picture book of Ginger Flowers?

Tropical Gingers from JungleGardens, are another favourite of mine which I have been growing for about 30 years and in particular the Hedychiums. The strong rhizomatic root systems throw annual shoots to 6 ft topped by a dense head of flowers in late summer which look and smell gorgeous. They are hardier than most people realise and given a warm south facing wall with a protective mulch in winter, they will survive reasonable frosts. However because of our short growing season they may not reach flowering maturity outside, unless in a hot sun pocket. The alternative is to dig them up and place into large pots for late flowering and over wintering under glass in a frost free greenhouse or conservatory and started into growth in early spring.

We have decided to only offer 16 of the more popular Hedychium varieties next year and to reduce excess inventory we are now offering a 50% sale on the majority of these plants. This will be your last chance to acquire one of these rarer plants from us so please don't miss out before they are all sold!

Costus Barbatus

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Spiral Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻♣

A very beautiful and spectacular rare perennial ginger from South America with spiral arranged leaves. Grows up 4’ to 7’ tall and has large green leaves. It has yellow and red flower inflorescences to 12” tall that remain in flower all summer. Can tolerate cool conditions over winter and very fast growing but the flowers are produced on the previous years growth. We also sell mature 5ft plants in 3 litre pots with several stems which will flower in 2006.

Costus Speciosa

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Spiral Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A tall spiral type ginger very similar to the Costus barbatus plants that we sell but this one has large 4" white crepe type flowers that emerge from the central cone. A tough fairly hardy ginger at the root level and easy to grow with attractive tropical leaves. New shoots emerge from the root stock at regular intervals and in the tropics it would create a 3ft wide 8ft tall clump in a year! Smaller to 6ft in pots, we think, but at the moment this is new to us as well. It is suggested that this plant maybe hardy to -15C at the root level!

Costus speciosus variegatus

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Variegated Crepe Ginger 1 litre plants ■☻

A beautiful variegated form of the spiral ginger that we sell with large 4" white crepe type flowers that emerge from the central cone. More tender than the type needing cool to warm greenhouse or conservatory conditions. New shoots emerge from the root stock at regular intervals and in the tropics it would create a 3ft wide 4ft tall clump in a year.

Hedychium Anne Bishop

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A lovely apricot Hedychium with a good sent and a large flower head to equal Kahili in size. Orange red filaments contrast beautifully with the paler petals. Strong growing to 6ft in a good light but taller under glass. Flowers around September to October on an established plant with strong stems and bold foliage.

Hedychium Carnival

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A brand new ginger from the Jungle team. This attractive hybrid has bright crimson stems at the base, flowers relatively early for gingers in September with full, quite large, long lasting apricot flower heads. Flowering height is manageable at 3ft to 4ft with a good clumping habit, and a non overpowering scent..

Hedychium coccineum

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Red Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ җ ♣

A smaller hardy red ginger similar to Aurantiacum (Tara, Coccineum and Aurantiacum are all closely related), forms good clumps of ginger to only 3ft or so with orange red flowers. Again the flower size does not match up to Tara or any of the hybrid gingers but still an excellent species ginger.

Hedychium coronarium

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White Butterfly Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

The white butterfly ginger which like most of the hedychiums has a beautiful fragrance but this one smells of Gardenias and is used in the perfume industry. Fairly root hardy growing to 5ft with the flowers on terminal spikes in late summer. Prefers partial shade but can take full sun with ample moisture. Probably best over wintered in a frost free area, either dormant or preferably kept growing into the following year. This plant will need a large pot to flower well.

Hedychium densifolium Assam Orange

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Hardy Ginger Lily - 3litre plants ■☻җ җ җ

A smaller Ginger hardy in all parts of the UK at the root level. Treat it as a clumping border perennial plant when each year it will throw 3ft spikes topped by orange flower spikes about 4" long in August/September. Excellent for a ginger alternative that does not take up the same space as the taller varieties.

Hedychium Devon Cream

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A wonderful hybrid of Coronarium and the Kahili ginger with extravagant scent on large flower heads similar to Gardenarium but with pale cream larger flowers influenced by Coronarium. Flowers early and at a sensible 3ft height on a strong plant. Originally sold as Hedychium Great Dixter but now renamed as Devon Cream.

Hedychium Dr Moy

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Hybrid Ginger Large established 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

An attractive ginger with pale orange flowers and variegated foliage. Variegation takes the form of white streaky flecks in the leaves.

Hedychium Elizabeth

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Pink Ginger Lily - 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A tall, gorgeous pink ginger, with 6ft to 8ft delicate stems. Be patient though as you will need an established plant in a large pot for successful flowering. It is the best pink form available with almost raspberry colouring and attractive foliage.

Hedychium flavescens

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Yellow Ginger - 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

Tall strong stems to 7ft with more slender 4" leaves but very leafy growth giving an excellent tropical effect when not in flower. Often used for perfume because of it's strong heady scent. The flowers are pale yellow with slightly smaller flower heads than gardnerianum. A beautiful delicate flower and attractive plant that is well worth trying.

Hedychium forrestii

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Hardy Ginger Lily - 3 litre plants ■☻җ җ җ

Perhaps the hardiest of the large flowered gingers with a limited scent growing to 6ft tall. Soon forms a spreading clump in the garden making it a good choice for anyone attempting a hardy tropical border. Largish heads of white flowers are produced on terminal spikes of lush tropical looking foliage. This is a big ginger plant and very robust.

Hedychium gardnerianum

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Kahili Ginger - 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

Still my favourite ginger lily with huge inflorescences of bright golden yellow, scarlet stamens and a fantastic perfume. Flowers easily once the root stock is filling a 10” pot or larger and fed regularly with plenty of sun. Sensible height for an hedychium flowering at 3 to 4ft.

Hedychium Gold Flame

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A vigorous plant with erect fragrant white flowers and burnt gold centres. Height to 5’. An outstanding butterfly type hybrid rapidly gaining popularity. Medium shade.

Hedychium Gold Spot

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

Identical in all characteristics to Coronarium apart from the gold throat in the flower. It has been propagated from a plant originally found in a private garden in India. We were made over with the flowers and scent during our 2006 trials of these rhizomes and now have plants for sale.

Hedychium greenii

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Greenii 3 litre plants ■☻җ җ ♣

A lovely plant for both flower and foliage. Quite hardy in some areas so worth a try outdoors, but the flowers are quite late into September. The bonus for this plant is the strong clumping nature with many new spikes emerging during the summer. The glossy dark green leaves have a maroon reverse with a hint of maroon also developing in the new stems. It produces the flower bracts early enough but it can take a further month for the striking orange/red flowers to emerge.

Hedychium lemon sherbert

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

Supposedly a tall ginger to 8ft but our plants start flowering at 6ft outside. Lovely pale yellow flowers with contrasting pink stamens on large flower heads and strong plants.

Hedychium Luna Moth

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A Tom Wood superb white hybrid ginger with huge white moth type flowers and a beautiful coronarium like fragrance. Shorter flowering at 1 metre than Coronarium and therefore more suitable for conservatory pot growing. The other advantage is the repeat flowering nature of this plant from the central calyx over at least a four to five week period, where other hedychiums generally open up their flowering spike from bottom to top and then finish flowering within a week. Not suitable for permanent garden use and slight shade suits it best under glass.

Hedychium maximum

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Giant Himalayan Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ

One of the largest Hedychiums similar in growth to Flavescens, but even more robust. Mainly grown for foliage effect but it has pretty pale lemon scented flowers on giant 8ft stems.

Hedychium pink flame

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

An excellent 4ft Tom Wood hybrid, flowering from late August onwards with clusters of peachy pink flowers with a wide dark orange throat. The extremely fragrant flowers add to the attraction when brought in to conservatories during our Autumn.

Hedychium Pink V

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A very popular hybrid butterfly ginger bred by Tom Wood to about 6 feet tall with a light citrus like scent. Pale lemon pink petals with a deeper pink "V" in the throat.

Hedychium pradhan

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Giant Himalayan Ginger - 3 litre plants ■☻җ

A very vigorous (8ft tall!) and large hedychium may be worth trying out of doors just for the amazing tropical foliage effect. Its is probably too late in flowering to get flowers outside but under cover we had it flowering at 7ft with beautiful scented large white flowers with a hint of pink.

Hedychium raffillii

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Indian Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A 1941 Award of Garden Merit (AGM) winner. For us, this cross is one of the earliest gingers to flower along with “Tara”, often starting in early to mid-July. Hybridized by C.P. Raffill, former assistant curator at Kew Gardens, the 5-6’ tall sturdy clumps are topped with large 18” flower heads of fragrant brilliant orange flowers, but to me almost identical to Tara.

Hedychium samsheri

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Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

A 5ft to 6ft tall Tom Wood hybrid from Chandra Nursery in Sikkim, India, imported in 1952, pink flowered, sometimes confused with the Japanese Hybrid “Kinkaku” but they are not the same.

Hedychium Stephen

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Hardy Ginger Lily 3 litre plants ■☻җ җ җ

This lovely fully hardy ginger collected by Tony Schilling in Nepal, and is closely related to densiflorum. However the flowers are much larger than densiflorum, cream with orange, with a delightful hyacinth fragrance.

Hedychium Tara

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Red Ginger Lily 3 litre plants ■☻җ җ ♣

A hybrid of Coccineum which has scarlet red flowers on a large flower head. It is one of the first to flower, one of the hardiest and grows 7ft tall flowering spikes. The scent is not as strong as some ginger flowers but nevertherless quite distinctive and fragrant and the only red ginger to have a decent scent. These plants will reach 6ft this season if planted in a good rich compost. Our best selling Ginger!

Hedychium Tropic Bird

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Tom Wood Hybrid Ginger 1 litre plant ■☻♣

A short 2ft tall Ginger with a spicy fragrance that likes to flower from Sep to Feb so useful as a conservatory plant if you can maintain a minimum of 8C. The free-blooming flower spikes have bracts covered with golden hairs and waxy white to cream flowers that curve backwards and last for 4-5 days.

Hedychium Verity

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Variegated Hybrid 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣

Improved Dr Moy. One plant out of a batch of Dr Moy micro liners we received a few years ago had significantly improved variegation. We propagate this plant ourselves by division and now have enough for sale. It has pale orange to cream scented flowers and is a hybrid of Coranarium and Coccineum. Striking variegation on a 5ft very robust plant with a hint of maroon on the back of new leaves that we have named “Verity”.

Hedychium Wardii

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Yellow Ginger 3 litre plants 2ft tall ■☻җ ♣

A stunning butterfly type ginger with bright yellow flowers closely related to forrestii and potentially hardy. Repeat flowering nature over 3 to 4 weeks and nicely scented. A very robust ginger with massive rhizomes, leaves and stems to 4ft. Like all butterfly gingers the flowers look better under glass or in dry weather.

Hedychium yunnanense

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Hardy Himalayan Ginger -3 litre plants ■☻җ җ

A shade and humidity loving hardy ginger from the Himalaya, only growing to 2ft and scented with lush foliage.

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To Grow -- Easy ■ Moderate ■ and Challenging ■

May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣

Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җ җ Fully Hardy җ җ җ

Needs Shady Position ☻ Sunny Position ☻ Water Loving ♥