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Dancing Ladies Ginger in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Globba Wintii

 

Dancing Ladies Ginger

'Dancing Ladies Ginger' is a perennial plant that forms open clumps of greenery, and has pendent flower spikes with lilac-purple bracts (modified leaves) trailing down the spike with little yellow tubular flowers that dance in the breeze. The flowers are followed by fruit, which are capsules that split revealing fleshy seeds. This plant often goes dormant in the cooler, drier conditions of Winter

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plant Features
  • Dancing Ladies Ginger likes partial shade to deep shade

    Partial shade to deep shade

  • Dancing Ladies Ginger likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Dancing Ladies Ginger is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Dancing Ladies Ginger likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Dancing Ladies Ginger

Latin name

Globba Wintii

type

Rhizome

family

Zingiberaceae

ph

5.5 - 6.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Dancing Ladies Ginger likes partial shade to deep shade

    Partial shade to deep shade

  • Frost

    Dancing Ladies Ginger is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Dancing Ladies Ginger likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

  • Water

    Dancing Ladies Ginger likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

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    Best time to plant
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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Dancing Ladies Ginger is 0.40meters x 1.00meters 0.40 M 1.00 M

Globba Wintii

'Dancing Ladies Ginger' is a perennial plant that forms open clumps of greenery, and has pendent flower spikes with lilac-purple bracts (modified leaves) trailing down the spike with little yellow tubular flowers that dance in the breeze. The flowers are followed by fruit, which are capsules that split revealing fleshy seeds. This plant often goes dormant in the cooler, drier conditions of Winter


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 Mid Summer TO Mid Autumn

Globba Wintii flowers if night temperatures are warm, from mid Summer to Autumn (when it usually goes dormant)

 

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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