Alpinia Purpurata
Red Ginger
Ginger is an herbaceous perennial rhizome. The native ginger has broad sword shaped green leaves. The fragrant white flowers are followed by blue berries. The new leaf shoots and berries have a mild ginger flavour and can be used in cooking.. It forms a clump up to 2m height. 'Red Ginger' is grown mainly as an ornamental plant, for the beautiful, showy red flower-heads, which are bracts, with small white flowers growing from the axils, which are attractive to bees and butterflies. This is a very thirsty plant. Do not let the soil dry out between waterings.
Contributed by @herbalevitas
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Partial shade to deep shade
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Occasional watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Red Ginger
Latin name
Alpinia Purpurata
type
Rhizome
family
Zingiberaceae
ph
5.5 - 6.5 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Partial shade to deep shade
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Moist and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
0.40 M
2.00 M
Alpinia Purpurata
Ginger is an herbaceous perennial rhizome. The native ginger has broad sword shaped green leaves. The fragrant white flowers are followed by blue berries. The new leaf shoots and berries have a mild ginger flavour and can be used in cooking.. It forms a clump up to 2m height. 'Red Ginger' is grown mainly as an ornamental plant, for the beautiful, showy red flower-heads, which are bracts, with small white flowers growing from the axils, which are attractive to bees and butterflies. This is a very thirsty plant. Do not let the soil dry out between waterings.
Planting
From Late Winter TO Early Spring
Ginger can be grown outdoors in frost-free areas, or can be grown in a container, indoors, in cooler climates. The preferred soil is rich, moist and free-draining, and ginger likes shade. Rhizomes can be bought in a supermarket, or from a plant nursery. Either way, the rhizome can be broken into pieces, each of which must have a growth bud - the shoots will come from these buds, and plant the pieces, either in soil, or in a pot of compost. Ginger needs light, and shelter from wind.
Propagating
From Late Winter TO Early Spring
Propagating ginger could hardly be easier! Simply break off a piece of the rhizome that has a growth bud, and plant it!
Flowering
From Late Spring TO Mid Summer
In most climates it is difficult to have a flowering ginger plant.The plant needs a full year of undisturbed growth, and several months of temperatures above 70 deg. F, before it will produce flowers, and for many areas, other than tropical areas, the conditions will not be right for the plant to produce flowers.
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