The Ginger Garden Before and After
Posted: May 2, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Automatic Gardening, gingers, Gulf Coast gardening, Southern Gardening, Subtropical Gardening 17 Comments
This is my ginger garden after the freeze. The plants had turned to mush. The stalks were from last summer’s plants that I usually leave until they turn brown and the new growth starts.
I removed all the dead ginger stalks which took about two days. I have never seen this bed empty since we moved in.
The good news is that the tubers were far enough underground to survive the extreme cold. Now I can look forward to beautiful scented flowers this summer.
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Hedychium “Pink V” 
Hedychium coccineum 
Cucuma hybrid 
Hedychium coronarium “Butterfly”
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A ginger garden sounds great. Lovely that your plants survived the cold blast and appear so healthy.
It was like having a northern spring, waiting for the plants to come back. Down here we usually have something growing all year and spring starts in February.
So glad it survived – the flowers are beautiful! Do you grow edible ginger as well?
I grow the gingers for flowers. I’m not sure if the edible ones have flowers or big pretty flowers.
Yay! Love the Gingers.
They are my babies.
They are wonderful, mine look awful as usual and I am contemplating potting them??
Mine seem to like gumbo soil really loaded with clay. They also grow in a patch between two wooded areas. They get morning and late in the day sun. I had put them there temporarily and they liked it. You said your soil was sandy. Maybe they would like pots and dappled shade. I volunteered in a ginger greenhouse and they seemed to survived in pots for awhile. I think I just got lucky with mine.
The gingers here suffer failure to thrive – the only gumbo is in my freezer! There is a soil mix here called Marvins Magic..and I believe in the magic, I need a really big pot!
What a wonderful sight that is! I’m glad you added the photos of the flowers, and I hope you get a lot of them this year.
I’m feeling better everyday as more plants return.
What a fabulous collection of gingers, I am so glad they survived.
Bet this is beautiful when in bloom. My ginger dies back and regrows every year. Hope yours is spectacular this season.
Mine do the same, but have never been through a freeze like the one we had. The last freeze that cold was 1930.
Your ginger flowers are very beautiful, it must be such a trill to see them flowering. A pity that you lost some of the plants but like you say the tubers are far underground and will have been protected. I must try growing some outside as so far I’ve only grown some inside and never had a flower.
Aren’t they glorious, especially the “ginger” colored one?
I am so happy they came back.