Kahili ginger isn’t grown for spice: it’s a beautiful flower!
Key Ginger lily facts
Name – Hedychium gardnerianum
Common – ginger lily, kahili ginger
Family – Zingiberaceae
Type – rhizome perennial
Height – 2 to 5 feet (60 to 150 cm)
Exposure – full sun, part sun
Soil: ordinary, cool – Flowering: summer to late fall
Preferably in spring for specimens purchased in nursery pots. Mix your earth with flower plant soil mix.
This plant isn’t hardy at all. It will die if exposed to frost. In temperatures slightly above freezing, a thick layer of mulch is recommended for it to stay alive.
You can grow this magnificent ginger in a pot, but you’ll have to repot it often. Replacing the pot and reducing the root ball is required every 2 years, sometimes every year. Like the ZZ plant, these powerful rhizomes can burst their pot open if left unattended.
Remove withered stems as they appear.
This very beautiful perennial with an upright bearing and an abundant blooming produces cute fragrant flowers.
Its growth is quick, especially if the plant only receives indirect sun.
Prefer part shade or light sun.
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