Hedychium Flavescens
Yellow Ginger Lily
Ginger Lilies are flowering, perennial, rhizomatous plants with stout, reed-like stems which carry lanceolate sheathing leaves in two parallel ranks. The stems are topped with spikes of orchid-like flowers that are often fragrant. Gingers vary from frost hardy to tender green-house or conservatory plants, and protection from cold will help even hardy varieties to flower, so a solution in cold areas is to grow in containers, and move the containers outdoors in the warmer months. Wet conditions are sometimes a worse enemy than cold, so make sure the plants are going to be protected from very wet conditions, and that the soil in which they are grown is very free-draining. Hedychium Flavescens - Yellow Ginger Lily - which, in Hawaii, is an invasive weed, and it is common along roadsides, bears tall stems with pointed, lance-shaped leaves, which can grow to 60cm long and have a softly hairy reverse, and, in late summer or early autumn, clusters of spicily-scented, creamy-yellow flowers
Contributed by @vec
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Full sun to partial shade
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Occasional watering
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A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Yellow Ginger Lily
Latin name
Hedychium Flavescens
type
Tender perennial
family
Zingiberaceae
ph
5.5 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)
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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
1.00 M
2.50 M
Hedychium Flavescens
Ginger Lilies are flowering, perennial, rhizomatous plants with stout, reed-like stems which carry lanceolate sheathing leaves in two parallel ranks. The stems are topped with spikes of orchid-like flowers that are often fragrant. Gingers vary from frost hardy to tender green-house or conservatory plants, and protection from cold will help even hardy varieties to flower, so a solution in cold areas is to grow in containers, and move the containers outdoors in the warmer months. Wet conditions are sometimes a worse enemy than cold, so make sure the plants are going to be protected from very wet conditions, and that the soil in which they are grown is very free-draining. Hedychium Flavescens - Yellow Ginger Lily - which, in Hawaii, is an invasive weed, and it is common along roadsides, bears tall stems with pointed, lance-shaped leaves, which can grow to 60cm long and have a softly hairy reverse, and, in late summer or early autumn, clusters of spicily-scented, creamy-yellow flowers
Flowering
From Early Summer TO Late Summer
Ginger Lilies bloom from early Summer to late Summer
Propagating by division of rhizomes
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Dig up the rhizomes, and divide them, ensuring that each piece has at least one growing tip, and re-plant.
Planting
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Plant rhizomes in a warm, sheltered site (by a south or west wall is good) - or in a container, in compost or soil that is very free-draining
vec