Show off your favorite gingers

[junglegalfla]

Got this ginger last year. Alpinia rugosa is fairly uncommon.

It overwintered well for me and really filled out this year nicely.

I was hoping for some blooms but to no avail. Enid told me theirs bloom in March. Maybe next year. I have high hopes for this one, seems to take a fair bit of florida sun!

A few that I grow

Costus Maroon Chalice

Zingiber vinosum

[junglegalfla]

NOID

[metalfan]

I have had Alpinia rugosa on my want list for some time. Do you have enough to trade?

I know Tom Wood has it, and so does Dave at GingersRUs but I don;t think Dave has any to sell and Wood is too dang far out in the woods for me to ever find again by myself.

Here are some of mine.

Costus osae Red Rose

[metalfan]

I have this red Alpinia purpurata out in the yard, I protect it in winter

[metalfan]

I grow both the Costus Maroon Chalice and the Emerald Chalice. Since you posted your maroon I will post the Emerald

[metalfan]

This is a hard to locate Costus with an unusual lemon yellow crepe-type bloom, C. subsessiles

[metalfan]

And another hard to find one, Costus longibracteatus. The canes on this get 7-8 ft tall and are really really hairy!

Its also called "Kiss of Death"

[Jeff in St Pete]

Beautiful gingers Bren!  And I see some familiar ones!  Glad to see the the Alpinia rugosa is doing well.  Is that the maroon chalice you got from me?  If so, it really has grown!

Around here, the two most popular gingers are Alpinia purpurata which grow everywhere like weeds, and Etlingera elatior which grow into massive clumps with leaf stalks 15 feet tall or more.  They are my new favorite!  

These are older pics that I think I posted before.

Alpinia purpurata

Etlingera elatior

Etlingera elatior leaf stalks growing down a hillside.  The pic of the flower was taken in the middle of this clump.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Metalfan, cool gingers!  And you have a beautiful yard!  

Love the Kiss of Death ginger!!

[junglegalfla]

Ah gorgeous!! I'm jealous of you both!

Jeff,

Yeah, the chalice & rugosa are doing well! The chalice was planted out in winter and isn't as robust as it once was. I think I'll dig  this one up & keep it potted too. The rugosa has really filled out!

the indonesian wax ginger is really taking off too! I know you said the flowers aren't that great but after seeing this thing struggle for 3 yrs, I'm just happy to see it growing. The key was moving it to full sun. Who knew?

and then here is an updated pic of that variegated NOID. Does this look like an alpinia? I don't know where it came from, it just popped up and is kind of buried. It's a pretty little thing, perhaps I should throw this into a pot & baby it too.

[Utopia Palms]

Here is a nice ginger its not often seen but is worth tracking down Z. Neglectum

[tipper55]

Costus spectabilis

Costus amazonicus

Dimerocostus strobilaceus Yellow

[Jeff in St Pete]

Bren, Wow the rugosa looks great!!  It's hard to believe that was one little shoot last summer.  That would be a good one to use in trades.

I was wrong about the indonesian wax ginger.  When I said that the flower wasn't great, it was because I saw some here in Costa Rica that I thought were IWG but they are something else.  The IWG actually has a very nice flower!  I hope you can get yours to bloom.  I had a clump of them that grew like gangbusters and multiplied like crazy every summer but I never got any blooms in Tampa.

[Utopia Palms]

And a few backscratcher gingers Tapeinochilos

[Utopia Palms]

How is this for Alpinia Purpurata?

[Utopia Palms]

And the white torch ginger

[Utopia Palms]

Costus stenophylla

[junglegalfla]

OMG, Utopia, that bloom in post # 15 is breath taking!

Jeff,

You're going to try some of that rugosa in CR right?

[Utopia Palms]

And one more Tapeinochilos

[Utopia Palms]

Hi Jeff

Im not familiar with rugosa Do you have a photo of the flower? and does it comes from costa Rica?

[Jeff in St Pete]

(junglegalfla @ Jul. 27 2007,17:14)

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Jeff,

You're going to try some of that rugosa in CR right?

I would love to try one here and see how big it gets.  I saw that picture of the flower on eBay and it's not a very attractive flower, but you gotta love the foliage!!

[Utopia Palms]

Here is a photo of the giant form of the pink torch.

[Utopia Palms]

Jeff

Is Rugosa the one in post number 10 the first photo the one with the great looking foliage?

Clayton

[junglegalfla]

Rugosa is the pic in # 10 and I must have Tapeinochilos!! ACK    

[Jeff in St Pete]

(Utopia Palms @ Jul. 27 2007,17:26)

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Hi Jeff

Im not familiar with rugosa Do you have a photo of the flower? and does it comes from costa Rica?

Clayton, check out the pictures on this link.  There are lots of flower and foliage pictures.  

http://cgi.ebay.com/ALPINIA....iewItem

I'm pretty sure it is not from Costa Rica.

[Jeff in St Pete]

(junglegalfla @ Jul. 27 2007,17:41)

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Rugosa is the pic in # 10 and I must have Tapeinochilos!! ACK    

Bren, Everytime someone posts a pic, you say "I gotta have that" LOL.  I think I need to talk to J about keeping you away from this board before it gets too expensive!! LOL

[Utopia Palms]

Thank you for the link Jeff, the foliage is out standing the flower looks a little like a Costus type flower?

[metalfan]

I grow lots of Curcumas. They make great bed fillers and I love the big 5-6 ft pleated leaves. This one is the variegated petiola. Most of the curcumas bloom in shades of pink, this ine is a lovely pure white

[metalfan]

I also like Zingibers because they are up and blooming then go away in winter so you don't have to worry about them. This is by far my most favorite Zingiber, collinsii "Silver Streaks".

[metalfan]

And here is another cool Zingiber...malaysianum "Mignight".

[metalfan]

Alpinia purpurata "Eileen McDonald"

[metalfan]

And another fave of mine, Globba pendula "Silver Comet"

[junglegalfla]

Gina,

Is it  Zingiber...malaysianum "Mignight" or midnight? I see some pink shoots, same plant? Uber cool! Would love to trade for that down the road!

My only problem is I tend to plant other things on the Zingibers because I forget they are there. I do that with other plants like caladiums. I have them coming in up in all kinds of crazy places.  

[metalfan]

Oops it should be "midnight".

[SunnyFl]

The pictures in this thread are wonderful - and it's great to see all these gingers - too many to rave about individually, they're all amazing, and the photos are so good.

Gina, what a collection - and that's a nice Curcuma!  I just got my first one last week - C. alismatifolia, the lavender-ish deep pink flowered one.  I took pics and hope to get them on a cd this weekend so I can post.  

The only other gingers in my collection (so far hehe) are Diversicata (sp??) thyrsifolia and a baby from a rhizome of Costus barbatus which I hope I haven't killed.  Eeek!

Personally, I am ISO Alpinia purpurata, the pink and the red.  Wish I had something to trade.

[happ]

[Mike4284m]

Any idea of which one this might be?  I took the photo at the Fairchild.

[aussiearoids]

Some hybrid flowers from a local grower , they are Zingiber macradenium x spectabile .

[aussiearoids]

Mike  your pic is an infl. from Calathea warscewiczii.

The Etlingera have lots of colour variants , the pale pink form is called 'Porcelain' here and is an exclnt. cut flower .

[aussiearoids]

Zing newmanii , one of the short creeping flowering sp.