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PLANT_CATEGORIES Aroids Banana Plants Brugmansias Cannas Conservatory A to I Conservatory J to Z Ginger Plants Heliconias Other Exotics Palms Tropical Climbers Tropical Fruit Ordering By Post	Gingers (Delivery May to Sep) Tropical Gingers from Jungle Plants, are another favourite of mine which I have been growing for about 30 years and in particular the Hedychiums. The strong rhizomatic root systems throw annual shoots to 6 ft topped by a dense head of flowers in late summer which look and smell gorgeous. They are hardier than most people realise and given a warm south facing wall with a protective mulch in winter, they will survive reasonable frosts. However because of our short growing season they may not reach flowering maturity outside, unless in a hot sun pocket. The alternative is to dig them up and place into large pots for late flowering and over wintering under glass in a frost free greenhouse or conservatory and started into growth in early spring. Have you seen our picture book of Ginger Flowers?
		Costus Barbatus Spiral Ginger n£♣ 3 Litre plants £24.95 JP1538 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A very beautiful and spectacular rare perennial ginger from South America with spiral arranged leaves. Grows up 4’ to 7’ tall and has large green leaves. It has yellow and red flower inflorescences to 12” tall that remain in flower all summer. Can tolerate cool conditions over winter and very fast growing but the flowers are produced on the previous years growth. We also sell mature 5ft plants in 3 litre pots with several stems which will flower in 2006.
		Costus Speciosa Crepe Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £19.95 JP1888 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A tall spiral type ginger very similar to the Costus barbatus plants that we sell but this one has large 4" white crepe type flowers that emerge from the central cone. A tough fairly hardy ginger at the root level and easy to grow with attractive tropical leaves. New shoots emerge from the root stock at regular intervals and in the tropics it would create a 3ft wide 8ft tall clump in a year! In pots it is much more manageable flowering at around 4ft at the end of the current years shoots.
		Costus speciosus variegatus Variegated Crepe Ginger n£]♣ 1 Litre plants £24.95 JP2571 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A beautiful variegated form of the spiral ginger that we sell with large 4" white crepe type flowers that emerge from the central cone. More tender than the type needing cool to warm greenhouse or conservatory conditions. New shoots emerge from the root stock at regular intervals and in the tropics it would create a 3ft wide 4ft tall clump in a year.
		Hedychium Anne Bishop Sold Out! Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP311 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A lovely apricot Hedychium with a good sent and a large flower head to equal Kahili in size. Orange red filaments contrast beautifully with the paler petals. Strong growing to 6ft in a good light but taller under glass. Flowers around September to October on an established plant with strong stems and bold foliage.
		Hedychium Carnival Sold Out! Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP2012 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A brand new ginger from the Jungle team. This attractive hybrid has bright crimson stems at the base, flowers relatively early for gingers in September with full, quite large, long lasting apricot flower heads. Flowering height is manageable at 3ft to 4ft with a good clumping habit, but sadly with minimal scent.
		Hedychium coccineum Sold Out! Species Ginger n£]]♣ 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP461 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A brand new ginger from the Jungle team. This attractive hybrid has bright crimson stems at the base, flowers relatively early for gingers in September with full, quite large, long lasting apricot flower heads. Flowering height is manageable at 3ft to 4ft with a good clumping habit, but sadly with minimal scent.
		Hedychium coronarium Sold Out! White Butterfly Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP125 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		The white butterfly ginger which like most of the hedychiums has a beautiful fragrance but this one smells of Gardenias and is used in the perfume industry. Fairly root hardy growing to 5ft with the flowers on terminal spikes in late summer. Prefers partial shade but can take full sun with ample moisture. Probably best over wintered in a frost free area, either dormant or preferably kept growing into the following year. This plant will need a large pot to flower well.
		Hedychium Dave Case Sold Out! Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP1095 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A tall plant to 7ft topped with a 10” spike of many pure orange medium sized flowers. It blooms from August through October. A Tom Wood hybrid.
		Hedychium densifolium Assam Orange Hardy Ginger Lily n£]]] 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP460 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A smaller Ginger hardy in all parts of the UK at the root level. Treat it as a clumping border perennial plant when each year it will throw 3ft spikes topped by orange flower spikes about 4" long in August/September. Excellent for a ginger alternative that does not take up the same space as the taller varieties.
		Hedychium Devon Cream Sold Out! Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP1765 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A wonderful hybrid of Coronarium and the Kahili ginger with extravagant scent on large flower heads similar to Gardenarium but with pale cream larger flowers influenced by Coronarium. Flowers early and at a sensible 3ft height on a strong plant. Originally sold as Hedychium Great Dixter but now renamed as Devon Cream.
		Hedychium Dr Moy Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP580 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		An attractive ginger with pale orange flowers and variegated foliage. Variegation takes the form of white streaky flecks in the leaves.
		Hedychium Elizabeth Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP128 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A tall, gorgeous pink ginger, with 6ft to 8ft delicate stems. Be patient though as you will need an established plant in a large pot for successful flowering. It is the best pink form available with almost raspberry colouring and attractive foliage.
		Hedychium flavescens Yellow Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP126 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		Tall strong stems to 7ft with more slender 4" leaves but very leafy growth giving an excellent tropical effect when not in flower. Often used for perfume because of it's strong heady scent. The flowers are pale yellow with slightly smaller flower heads than gardnerianum but a beautiful delicate flower and attractive bold plant that is well worth trying.
		Hedychium forrestii Hybrid Ginger n£]]] 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP428 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		Perhaps the hardiest of the large flowered gingers with a limited scent growing to 6ft tall. Soon forms a spreading clump in the garden making it a good choice for anyone attempting a hardy tropical border. Largish heads of white flowers are produced on terminal spikes of lush tropical looking foliage. This is a big ginger plant and very robust.
		Hedychium gardnerianum Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP127 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		Still my favourite ginger lily with huge inflorescences of bright golden yellow, scarlet stamens and a fantastic perfume. Flowers easily once the root stock is filling a 10” pot or larger and fed regularly with plenty of sun. Sensible height for an hedychium flowering at 3 to 4ft.
		Hedychium Gold Flame Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP1091 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A vigorous plant with erect fragrant white flowers and burnt gold centres. Height to 5’. An outstanding butterfly type hybrid rapidly gaining popularity. Medium shade.
		Hedychium Gold Spot Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP2011 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		One of my favourite large flowered hybrids. Identical in all characteristics to Coronarium apart from the gold throat in the flower. It has been propagated from a plant originally found in a private garden in India. We were made over with the quality and size of the flowers and strong scent during our 2006 trials of these rhizomes and now have plenty of plants for sale.
		Hedychium greenii Sold Out! Species Ginger n£]] 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP529 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A lovely plant for both flower and foliage. Quite hardy in some areas so worth a try outdoors, but the flowers are quite late into September. The bonus for this plant is the strong clumping nature with many new spikes emerging during the summer. The glossy dark green leaves have a maroon reverse with a hint of maroon also developing in the new stems. It produces the flower bracts early enough but it can take a further month for the striking orange/red flowers to emerge.
		Hedychium lemon sherbert Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP1092 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A tall robust ginger to 8ft but our plants start flowering at 6ft outside given plenty of light. Lovely pale yellow flowers with contrasting pink stamens on large flower heads.
		Hedychium Luna Moth Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP1082 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A Tom Wood superb white hybrid ginger with huge white moth type flowers and a beautiful fragrance. Shorter flowering at 1 metre than Coronarium and therefore more suitable for conservatory pot growing. The other advantage is the repeat flowering nature of this plant from the central calyx over at least a four to five week period, where other Hedychiums generally open up their flowering spike from bottom to top and then finish flowering within a week. Not suitable for permanent garden use and slight shade suits it best under glass.
		Hedychium maximum Giant Himalayan Ginger n£] 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP1096 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		One of the largest Hedychiums similar in growth to Flavescens, but even more robust. Mainly grown for foliage effect but it has pretty pale lemon scented flowers on giant 8ft stems.
		Hedychium pink flame Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP2482 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		An excellent 4ft Tom Wood hybrid, flowering from late August onwards with clusters of peachy pink flowers with a wide dark orange throat. The extremely fragrant flowers add to the attraction when brought in to conservatories during our Autumn.
		Hedychium Pink V Sold Out! Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP2013 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A very popular hybrid butterfly ginger bred by Tom Wood to about 6 feet tall with a light citrus like scent. Pale lemon pink flowers with a deeper pink "V" in the throat.
		Hedychium pradhan Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP1093 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A very vigorous (8ft tall!) and large Hedychium may be worth trying out of doors just for the amazing tropical foliage effect. Its is probably too late in flowering to get flowers outside but under cover we had it flowering at 7ft with beautiful scented large white flowers with a hint of pink.
		Hedychium raffillii Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £19.45 JP1317 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A 1941 Award of Garden Merit (AGM) winner. For us, this cross is one of the earliest gingers to flower along with “Tara”, often starting in early to mid-July. Hybridized by C.P. Raffill, former assistant curator at Kew Gardens, the 5-6’ tall sturdy clumps are topped with large 18” flower heads of fragrant brilliant orange flowers, but to me almost identical to Tara.
		Hedychium samsheri Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £11.35 JP1094 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A 5ft to 6ft tall Tom Wood hybrid from Chandra Nursery in Sikkim, India, imported in 1952, pink flowered, sometimes confused with the Japanese Hybrid “Kinkaku” but they are not the same.
		Hedychium Stephen Sold Out! Hybrid Ginger n£]]] 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP1547 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		This lovely fully hardy ginger collected by Tony Schilling in Nepal, and is closely related to densiflorum. However the flowers are much larger than densiflorum, cream with orange, with a delightful hyacinth fragrance.
		Hedychium Tara Hybrid Ginger n£]]♣ 3 Litre plants £16.125 JP739 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A hybrid of Coccineum which has scarlet red flowers on a large flower head. It is one of the first to flower, one of the hardiest and grows 7ft tall flowering spikes. The scent is not as strong as some ginger flowers but nevertheless quite distinctive and fragrant and the only red ginger to have a decent scent. These plants will reach 6ft this season if planted in a good rich compost. Our best selling Ginger!
		Hedychium Verity Variegated Hybrid Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £21.95 JP1313 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		Improved Dr Moy. One plant out of a batch of Dr Moy micro liners we received a few years ago had significantly improved variegation. We propagate this plant ourselves by division and now have enough for sale. It has pale orange to cream scented flowers and is a hybrid of Coranarium and Coccineum. Striking variegation on a 5ft very robust plant with a hint of maroon on the back of new leaves that we have named “Verity”.
		Hedychium Wardii Sold Out! Yellow Ginger n£]♣ 3 Litre plants £21.95 JP1084 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A stunning butterfly type ginger with bright yellow flowers closely related to forrestii and potentially hardy. Repeat flowering nature over 3 to 4 weeks and nicely scented. A very robust ginger with massive rhizomes, leaves and stems to 4ft. Like all butterfly gingers the flowers look better under glass or in dry weather. Can be tricky to grow successfully.
		Hedychium yunnanense Hardy Himalayan Ginger n££]]] 3 Litre plants £16.25 JP1083 (Click here for Larger Image)	Quantity:
		A shade and humidity loving hardy ginger from the Himalaya, only growing to 2ft and scented with lush foliage. Will also grow in full to partial sun with early flowering habit right through to the first frosts.
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