Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I have all of my Hedychiums in the ground along with the Curcuma Hidden Gingers and Spiral Ginger, Costus pictus which gets full blazing hot sun from sun up til about 4 in the afternoon. The Hedychiums and Hidden gingers are solid zone 8 hardy .. I'm too chicken to risk putting my "specials" in the ground. I don't have a recent picture of the "Ginger Bed" but I'll take one tomorrow. I finally for the first time in like 4 years dug up the whole bed thinned out and replanted in late Winter of this year.
I find that the more water in the Spring and early Summer they get the faster they grow and sooner they bloom. I also throw time release fertilizer on top of the soil as well.
Here is the "key" to the Ginger Bed.
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