Decorative gingers.

Over years of collecting we have gotten together a group of plants in the ginger family that are easy to grow,beautiful and cold tolerant in areas with cold winters but warm to hot summers.

Generally plants in the ginger family prefer a rich organic soil, well mulched and supplied with water during the warmer months when they do their growing. Many of our decorative gingers are deciduous which protects them from cold winters. When they are dormant they require little or no watering. They like light to heavy shade.

The gingers are in the larger plant family Zingiberaceae.

Some of the gingers that appear here are also in our edible ginger group but they are so attractive they could not be left out.

Cape York Lily and “Pink V' ginger

Java Ginger and 'Ruby” Curcuma

Botanical name	Common name	Feature
Alpinia arundelliana	A native ginger	Blue berries
Alpinia nutans	Dwarf or false cardamon	foliage
Curcuma australasica	Cape York Lily	foliage/flower
Curcuma domestica	Thai tumeric	foliage/flower/food
Curcuma rubescens	'Ruby' curcuma	foliage
Hedechium coccineum		Orange flower
Hedechium coronarium	Butterfly ginger	Fragrant
Hedechium c. 'Luna Moth'	'Luna Moth' ginger	Cream flowers
Hedechium c. 'Pink V'	'Pink V ' ginger	Peach flowers
Hedechium c. var urophyllum		Yellow flower
Hedechium gardnerianum		Foliage/flower
Hedechium greenei		Orange flower
Hedechium horsfeildii	Java ginger	Flower/seedhead
Kaempferia rotunda	Round root galangal	food/foliage/flower
Zingiber aromaticum	Aromatic ginger	Flower cones/food
Zingiber niveum'Milky Way'	Milky Way ginger	flower/foliage
Zingiber oficinale var. Sunti	Jakata ginger	food/foliage
Zingiber parishii'Lemon lights'	Lemon lights ginger	flowers/foliage

Watch this space- we add new plants to our collection every season.