Yellow Dancing Ladies
Posted: October 10, 2022 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Automatic Gardening, bulbils, Globba Schomburgkii, Gulf Coast gardening, rabbits, Southern Gardening, Subtropical Gardening, Yellow Dancing Lady Ginger 8 Comments
Another plant that I have an abundance of this year is the Yellow Dancing Lady Ginger. Their name comes from the flower that is shaped like a dress and it looks as if it is dancing in the breeze.
The plant reproduces by dropping bulbils that wait until the soil heats up to germinate. The Dancing Lady always seems to keep a spare bulbil in its throat.
I have several areas around the garden where the Dancing Lady has dropped its bulbils and they have all started growing. I checked the internet and found that the plant sells for as high as $13. Maybe I should have a sale. I am not sure what stimulated all the bulbils to grow. I was thinking maybe it was the cold winters or lack of rabbits.
And just as I had that thought, a rabbit popped out of the hole under the fence.
A few days later I saw this juvenile bunny hopping on my back porch. I may be saying goodbye to my bounty of plants.
Autumn Gingers
Posted: October 20, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Automatic Gardening, butterfly ginger, Costus barbatus, gingers, Globba Schomburgkii, Gulf Coast gardening, Hedychium coronarium, Hedychium hybrid "Pink V", Hedychium thysiforme, shampoo ginger, spiral ginger, Subtropical Gardening, Yellow Dancing Lady Ginger, Zingiber zerumber 15 Comments
I was on vacation this summer when my gingers bloomed, missing the jewels of my garden. Thankfully, the gingers must have missed me too and put on some end of summer flowers. Above is the white Maximum Ginger that formed a pretty wreath of flowers around its cone.
Pink V, which doesn’t look very pink to me, has bloomed in two of my beds.
White Butterfly Ginger, which smells divine, was the first ginger of my collection given to me by my mother-in-law.
Shampoo Ginger will turn dark red and it was actually used to wash hair. I haven’t tried it.
The Yellow Dancing Lady was coming to the end of its blooming season, but I find the bulbils interesting. As the rabbits have disappeared from my yard, I have colonies of them coming up everywhere. Like most gingers, they need light shade in this zone and some did not pick the correct place to grow and got sunburned.
The Spiral Ginger struggled for awhile, but has really grown and reproduced during the last few years. Even though I missed the big show of blooms, I am pleased that a few gingers bloomed late for my enjoyment.
Fall Blooming Gingers
Posted: October 30, 2013 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: bulbils, Costus pictus, Globba Globulifer, Globba Schomburgkii, Hedychium Anne Bishop, Purple Globe, spiral ginger, Yellow Dancing Lady 5 CommentsSome Gingers prefer to bloom in the fall. Planting spring, summer and fall blooming gingers will provide a long season. Gingers are a great addition to the Automatic Garden as they are easy to care for and reproduce every year.
Costus pictus, a spiral ginger blooms one flower at a time. That means it will be blooming for awhile, but having more than just one would make a better display.
This Hedychium Hybrid, Anne Bishop, was a surprise late bloomer.
New to the Automatic Garden is the very cute Globba Globulifer, Purple Globe, that was plucked up at a plant exchange. It has already bloomed three times and is making bulbils for next year.
This is a Globba Schomburgkii or Yellow Dancing Lady at the end of its season. It forms bulbils where the flowers were, but the interesting part is the bulbils that form inside the stem.
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