Anyone has extra butterfly ginger to give away?
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Has anyone grown the new dwarf Butterfly Bushes?
Comments (19)I planted Lo and Behold this spring, wanting butterflies but not having room in my condo garden for a regular sized bush. Don't remember what I paid but it is unlikely to have been more than $20. The tag said it would be 2'X2' and now, in its first July, it's about 18" tall and 24" wide. Lots of blooms but not self cleaning for me, although I might be just a little quick off the mark to deadhead. I haven't noticed any fragrance at all but the most significant thing is that it doesn't attract butterflies. They go to everything around it but have no interest in the butterfly bush. Very disappointing....See MoreGive Away: sept 23 trade
Comments (27)Unfortunately, the Gaura roots rotted, so I'm crossing this off the list. Nightnurse -- I have you down for an Aster 'Puff', Anemone 'Honorine Joubert', and Eryngium 'Sapphire Blue'. Ruth -- You can have a Deutzia and a couple P.Ternata seedlings. I can offer you a couple 4" E. 'Sapphire blue', the gallons are gone, and I'll bring extra sedums including a couple I didn't list. Jeno--Yes, take them! (except the gaura; it's is no good)....See MoreStopping the Spread of Butterfly Ginger
Comments (6)I must say, , even growing my Costus barbatus as a pot plant , it's a little too fast growing for indoors, and I have to constantly be dividing the darn thing, and finding lots of large pots to repot the "extras", which outgrow the somewhat smaller pots within just a few months and then need repotting again. However , since mine act more like biennials in nature , with the older shoots dieing back afer less than a year, it's always nice to have newer growth replacing the old canes all the time. Maybe it's just my indoor growing conditions that cause the individual canes to have such a short life, but I suspect that many rhizomatous growing plants have that "determinate" growth habit like cannas , which after flowering always produce new leaders, and rhizomes from which the new flower stalks can grow. It seems the eyes or remnants of the previous years shoots never grow again to reflower a second time. I wonder, if anyone else has thought about this habit or perhaps I'm mistaken about my assessment of their "habits". Another change that my ginger has undergone, is the failure to produce young pups from the older stems as they died back, as they did the first year , while I was growing them. None have produced the "odd" pups that formed along the leaf nodes next to the dieing leaves. Those came out looking a little like new branches or shoots , but quickly produced and ever enlarging bump at the bottom of the shoots right next to the mother stems, and afer a while they'd drop off naturally and would root just like a regular rhizome , when they lay on the soil. Those came in very handy for starting new plants, but perhaps keeping the plants a bit wetter or something else I'm doing since then has proven to change that habit of forming the pups?? Those plants can have some amazing and yet very "difficult" habits to figure out, and I've been gardening for fifty years....See MoreWhite Butterfly Ginger
Comments (44)Hello fellow Hedychium lovers. I live in z8 Oregon. I have grown different Hedychiums for years. The most dependable bloomer here is "Tara" It is a H. coccineum variety.It blooms for about a month every August with light orange blooms and is fragrant. Very lush too. I fertilize it when I think about it in the growing season but it doesnt seem to care about that as I am a great mulcher. It dies to the ground every winter. I have tried H. coronarium too. It lived for years but never bloomed. I think that we do not have a long and hot enough growing season here in the NW. Often it would just get ready to bloom in October and then would fizzle out when the rainy season started. All of my things have to be IN THE GROUND. So far I have tried about 10 different varieties of Hedychium. Only Tara has bloomed reliably. I think that there are others that are early bloomers that would work here. I think that if you plant any of them where they dont sit in winter wet, and let them mass, they will be just fine. There are so many available now. Just check out www.stokestropicals.com. I think that there are several that are early bloomers. They should also work well in our NW climate and actually bloom. Mine all made it through 1991 when it got down to 9 degrees here. Of course the foliage looked like cooked spinach but they all came back in the spring and bloomed in August....See Moregaryz8bpnw
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