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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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
Dancing Ladies Ginger
Latin name
Globba Wintii
type
Rhizome
family
Zingiberaceae
ph
5.5 - 6.5 Acid - Neutral
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full grown dimensions
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.