Ginger

For An Exotic And Spicy Perfume Ginger-lilies

Do you want to hear about a plant full of sugar and spice, a plant especially nice for your window garden? It’s the ginger lily, Kaempferia rotunda. Ginger lilies grow from fleshy tubers or roots. These exciting tropicals are members of the Zingiberaceae and are endemic to Tropical Asia and Africa.  There are about 50 … Read more

Growing The Yellow Pot Ginger: Kaempferia Decora

Yellow Ginger

One of the most attractive and promising flowering pot plants to come to America in many years is the yellow-flowered Kaempferia decora, a plant known to botany for less than a decade and native to the grassy woodlands of Portuguese East Africa. Kaempferia Decora Roots of this new rare Kaempferia were sent to Europe from … Read more