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It's not ginger but what is it?!
It is a plant that looks like ginger. The stems stand about 1.5m tall. The roots look like ginger or turmeric but do not taste like either. I would love to know this plant's ID. Photos he
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
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Compo in Caithness wrote: It is a plant that looks like ginger. The stems stand about 1.5m tall. The roots look like ginger or turmeric but do not taste like either. I would love to know this plant's ID. Photos he https://picasaweb.google.com/paul.si...eat=directlink Quite possibly a decorative ginger of some sort - there are lots. Sadly, our expert on such things passed away a short time ago. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
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Janet wrote: In article , says... https://picasaweb.google.com/paul.si...eat=directlink Campsis? Campsis is a woody climber with pinnate, very cut, leaves and much more symmetric flowers. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
"Compo in Caithness" wrote in message ... It is a plant that looks like ginger. The stems stand about 1.5m tall. The roots look like ginger or turmeric but do not taste like either. I would love to know this plant's ID. Photos he https://picasaweb.google.com/paul.si...eat=directlink Can anyone help, please? It is Hedychium greenii a member of the greater ginger family but a different Genus -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:27:27 +0100, Charlie Pridham wrote:
It is Hedychium greenii a member of the greater ginger family but a different Genus +1 for greenii. I have several but haven't convinced them to flower yet, they seem more reluctant than my other hedychiums. -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:32:42 +0000, Emery Davis wrote:
+1 for greenii. I have several but haven't convinced them to flower yet, they seem more reluctant than my other hedychiums. Having just posted I went and looked at it, actually one of them is putting out a bud! -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
On Monday, 22 September 2014 12:32:42 UTC+1, Emery Davis wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:27:27 +0100, Charlie Pridham wrote: It is Hedychium greenii a member of the greater ginger family but a different Genus +1 for greenii. I have several but haven't convinced them to flower yet, they seem more reluctant than my other hedychiums. -- Gardening in Lower Normandy Mine has flowered at the back of a polytunnel in shade. |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
On Monday, 22 September 2014 09:43:38 UTC+1, Compo in Caithness wrote:
It is a plant that looks like ginger. The stems stand about 1.5m tall. The roots look like ginger or turmeric but do not taste like either. I would love to know this plant's ID. Photos he https://picasaweb.google.com/paul.si...eat=directlink Thanks for the replies, gang. First class responses as always Can anyone help, please? |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
"Emery Davis" wrote
Charlie Pridham wrote: It is Hedychium greenii a member of the greater ginger family but a different Genus +1 for greenii. I have several but haven't convinced them to flower yet, they seem more reluctant than my other hedychiums. Yes, agree, it's Hedychium greenii. I have two plants one in a pot and one in the garden and both are flowering at the moment. Likes a lot of water in the growing season, will even enjoy growing as a bog plant during the summer. Amazing how quickly those little baby plants that appear where the flowers were get to be flowering themselves, two years for me. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:20:52 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote:
Yes, agree, it's Hedychium greenii. I have two plants one in a pot and one in the garden and both are flowering at the moment. Likes a lot of water in the growing season, will even enjoy growing as a bog plant during the summer. Amazing how quickly those little baby plants that appear where the flowers were get to be flowering themselves, two years for me. Mine are in pots but I'd like to get some into the ground. What do you suppose your minimum temperatures are? I expect the ground does freeze sometimes, no? I've been concerned about losing hedychiums to too cold temps, but now that I separated them last year I have lots to experiment with. I agree it likes lots of water although I haven't tried it in a bog! -E -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
"Emery Davis" wrote in message ... On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:20:52 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote: Yes, agree, it's Hedychium greenii. I have two plants one in a pot and one in the garden and both are flowering at the moment. Likes a lot of water in the growing season, will even enjoy growing as a bog plant during the summer. Amazing how quickly those little baby plants that appear where the flowers were get to be flowering themselves, two years for me. Mine are in pots but I'd like to get some into the ground. What do you suppose your minimum temperatures are? I expect the ground does freeze sometimes, no? I've been concerned about losing hedychiums to too cold temps, but now that I separated them last year I have lots to experiment with. I agree it likes lots of water although I haven't tried it in a bog! -E -- Gardening in Lower Normandy Cold is seldom an issue it would need to be -10c for a period to actually kill them, (You just need to mulch over the crowns) but the evergreen sorts like greenii need a long warm growing season if they are going to flower before winter returns, kept evergreen by protecting them they flower earlier. -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
"Emery Davis" wrote
Bob Hobden wrote: Yes, agree, it's Hedychium greenii. I have two plants one in a pot and one in the garden and both are flowering at the moment. Likes a lot of water in the growing season, will even enjoy growing as a bog plant during the summer. Amazing how quickly those little baby plants that appear where the flowers were get to be flowering themselves, two years for me. Mine are in pots but I'd like to get some into the ground. What do you suppose your minimum temperatures are? I expect the ground does freeze sometimes, no? I've been concerned about losing hedychiums to too cold temps, but now that I separated them last year I have lots to experiment with. I agree it likes lots of water although I haven't tried it in a bog! I planted them out in the spring so they haven't gone through a winter and at the moment I'm considering digging them up and potting them up for the winter as frost will kill the younger green stems so stopping them flowering next year. But on the other hand I do have one in a pot so I might just take a chance and see what happens. I did lose a H densiflorum over winter a few years ago and that is supposed to be quite hardy. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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It's not ginger but what is it?!
On 2014-09-22 11:32:42 +0000, Emery Davis said:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:27:27 +0100, Charlie Pridham wrote: It is Hedychium greenii a member of the greater ginger family but a different Genus +1 for greenii. I have several but haven't convinced them to flower yet, they seem more reluctant than my other hedychiums. Coming very late to this but Raymond says that H greenii usually forms a bulb where the spent flower is. So if it does that, it should help with ID. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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