Hardy ginger question
I just got a fantastic Stokes catalog in the mail, with lovely pictures
of many tropical plants I could not begin to grow here in Zone 7.
Looking at it has sent me into a quandary, as many of the gingers (for
instance) are said to be hardy to Zone 7. Does anyone have suggestions
for a flowering ginger which might bloom well for me, and be fragrant?
I would like one to be edible also, but I dont find that combination in
the catalog. Has anyone had good luck with getting a hardy ginger to
bloom, preferably in the shade? I may have to just order plants for my
daughter who lives in southern California, but I would like to try one
myself. I have an unidentified ginger which I brought from the San
Francisco Bay Area, where we used to live. It has come back for two
years now, but I think I could lose it in a hard freeze any year now. It
has never bloomed. But I would love to have some of those delicate
tropical blooms from the catalog. How realistic would it be to plant
ginger here, where we get a foot or so of snow every once in a while,
and it lasts for some days? Which kinds would be most likely to bloom?
Anelle
Who also has am amazing rock: about 1 inch square, and four inches tall,
I picked it up from a beach in Cornwall, and I think it is one of the
large stones from Stonehenge, which was lost and was worn away in the
surf.
