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Old 26-10-2008, 01:48 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens
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Default Torch Ginger-7649 (Etlingera elatior)

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"Maroochy" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote:

An ornamental ginger, one of my all time favourites growing in my garden. It
takes very little looking after and the flowers are on very long stems and
last for ages. This one is not yet fully open.


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I may have to look in to that. I've only ever attempted to grow
culinary ginger and it only does well with LOTS of water, and only tried
to bloom once. The bloom failed. :-(

I need drought resistant plants. The Lantana is doing rather well and
survived a solid 3 months with no watering. Looked very unhappy, but it
lived. So did the canna and all of my desert herbals. (Mexican Oregano,
Thyme, Rosemary and Sage).
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