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Hardiness: USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F) USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F) USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F) USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F) USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)
On Jan 9, 2011, sunkissed from Winter Springs, FL (Zone 9b) wrote:
I've had this perennial ginger growing along a fence in my FL garden in zone 9B for well over seven years. It has reached a height of six feet and will stay evergreen in warmer winters. It has survived temperatures below 26 the last two winters with only frost damage to tops of plants, and completely to the ground on outer edges of the bunch, but always come back from the ground in spring. The flowers are some of the first bloomers in my garden each spring and resemble little orchids, or a string of shells. I've never seen any quite like mine in garden centers, my father gave me these from some he had. I've seen a wider variegated leaved one with similar flowers, but none quite a beautiful as mine. I hardly water it and it is in a morning filtered sun light, but shaded during the hot hours of the day. Tolerates drought in shaded area very well once established.
On Apr 17, 2008, leighgalv from Galveston, TX (Zone 9a) wrote:
Plantings beside the spa are over 8 ft tall! Waited 3 growing seasons before I was awarded with blooms....beautiful, tall plants, great for screen and/or privacy fencing!
On Nov 19, 2001, Floridian from Lutz, FL (Zone 9b) wrote:
A native of Southeast Asia this large and attractive perennial is grown for its glossy foliage and fragrant flower clusters. Once established this plant will tolerate some drought as long as it has good light and a moderately rich soil. It is one of the first gingers to bloom in the spring. The unopened flowers look like strands of threaded pink seashells. When they open, the seem to contain tiny orchids with yellow and orange markings. Being vigorous growers they need to be divided every 2 years. If grown outside in colder zones you will need to mulch them well when the foliage dies back in the fall. You can also lift the rhizomes and store them in vermiculite in a cool room until the danger of frost is over.
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
, Mobile, Alabama Camarillo, California Oakhurst, California San Marcos, California Bartow, Florida Bellair-meadowbrook Terrace, Florida Big Pine Key, Florida Boca Raton, Florida Bokeelia, Florida Campbell, Florida Cheval, Florida Clearwater, Florida Deerfield Beach, Florida Eatonville, Florida Fort Mc Coy, Florida Fruitville, Florida Heathrow, Florida Jacksonville, Florida Keystone Heights, Florida Lake Belvedere Estates, Florida Macgregor, Florida Masaryktown, Florida Miami, Florida Naples, Florida Navarre, Florida Ocoee, Florida Pebble Creek, Florida Pembroke Pines, Florida Pensacola, Florida Port Orange, Florida Port Saint Joe, Florida Safety Harbor, Florida Siesta Key, Florida Spring Hill, Florida Tampa, Florida Trenton, Florida Winter Park, Florida Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaii Gonzales, Louisiana Gulf Hills, Mississippi Vieques, Puerto Rico Bluffton, South Carolina East Sumter, South Carolina Belton, Texas Galveston, Texas (2 reports) Houston, Texas Missouri City, Texas Olmos Park, Texas Pleasanton, Texas Victoria, Texas
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