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A beautiful, easy-to-grow flowering ginger with fragrance.
What more could you want!
White butterfly ginger is a fabulous tropical.
Butterfly ginger is a popular landscape plant throughout the tropics.
It is also grown in the north, as a potted plant and even inside as a large houseplant.
For a great tropical look and a wonderful fragrance, plant it near a patio or window so you can enjoy
the jasmine or gardenia-like fragrance.
Green stalks grow from thick rhizomes to a height of 3-6 feet. The tropical leaves are lance-shaped and, from midsummer through autumn, the stalks are topped with 6-12" long clusters of wonderfully fragrant white flowers that look like butterflies. The flowers eventually give way to showy bright red seed pods. In zones 7b-9, it is treated like a perennial -- it dies back in winter but re-emerges in spring. In colder zones, dig up rhizome and store them inside for the winter. If they are in pots, bring the whole pot in and store it (un-watered) until spring. Foliage will die down, but it will remerge in the spring. Then start watering again. It's just that easy. And another great thing about these gingers is that they multiply rapidly, so you will soon have a garden full of fragrance. It does best in partial shade to full sun, and it likes rich soil with adequate moisture. It also can be grown as a bog or a pond plant.
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