Zingiber kawagoii Ali Yucca Our selection was the best

Our selection was the best performing seedling from a cross by gesneriad expert John Farina

Hedychium ellipticum flowers equally well in part sun or light shade

since this will kill the plant

each lobe highlighted by a band of silver down the middle

which he received years earlier from China

Zingiber kawagoii Ali Yucca Our selection was the bestWe're always on the lookout for new winter hardy gingers, and our prayers were answered in 2008, as we descended Taiwan's Ali Shan and spotted a massive forest of ginger lilies growing alongside giant bamboo, underneath a massive forest of cryptomerias at 5,300' elevation. The 30" tall gingers are adorned with clusters of small basal produced, bright red flowers from September until a hard freeze. The clumps spread slowly in our climate, resulting in