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They are often combined with other hardy tropicals including canna, musa basjoo, colocasia, and other Zingiberaceae. Hedychium 'Pink Flame' How to Grow Hardy Ginger Plants in the Gardenĭesign considerations: Hedychium are loved by temperate gardeners who want to create a tropical look. We urge our readers to visit the garden during our fall Open House in order to see our collection and check out our web site to see our offerings.

Thirty five years later, I would finally see ginger lilies in the wild on a botanical expedition to North Vietnam.Īt Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Gardens, we currently (2010) grow 88 accessions of hedychium in the garden, representing 11 different species and 56 hybrids.

As with every OCD gardener, this would mark only the beginning of my hedychium collecting phase, which continues today. Dunham was overly generous, I went home with a huge sack of plants for my own garden. I was amazed how a plant that looked so tropical and had such fragrant flowers could be so winter hardy and easy to grow.

There, in the midst of her lawn was a huge clump of hardy ginger plant in full flower. I'll never forget my first encounter as a preteen with Hedychium coronarium, when my dad took me to the garden of a local gardener, Rachel Dunham. Plants in the genus Coreopsis are sometimes commonly called tickseed in reference to the resemblance of the seeds to ticks.Introduction to Hedychium (Hardy Ginger Plants) 'Route 66' was discovered in 2005 growing in the garden of Patti Bauer of Bauer's Forever Flowers in Lucinda, Pennsylvania. Palmately 3-parted green leaves with thread-like segments lend a fine-textured and airy appearance to the plant. The location and size of the red pigmentation varies (sometimes significantly) from flower to flower. Red from the eye ring irregularly bleeds into the yellow. Daisy-like, bright yellow flowers (1-2” diameter) with a sizeable red eye ring bloom from early summer into fall. It features threadleaf green foliage on plants rising to 24-28" tall. ‘Route 66’ is a verticillata-type variety of coreopsis. The genus name comes from the Greek words koris meaning "bug" and opsis meaning "like" in reference to the shape of the seed which resembles a bug or tick. Coreopsis is a genus of between 75-80 species from North America, Mexico, Central and South America.