Cut off flowers at the ground once they’ve passed their prime. Info: This container plant may attract bees, butterflies or certain wild birds to your balcony garden. You can also plant offsets or divide the rhizomes for propagation. Propagation: The red ginger plant rarely produces seeds, but if it does, the seeds will take up to three weeks to germinate, and from two to three years to become a mature, flowering plant. But this plant is generally healthy and easy to care for. Pests and Diseases: Red ginger can be plagued by aphids, mealybugs, earwigs, thrips, scale, fungus, root rot and nematodes. If you live in a colder area, bring your red ginger into an indoor garden during the winter.įertilizer: The red ginger plant grows best in rich soil, so fertilize monthly with a high- nitrogen liquid fertilizer. The plant's foliage will begin to die at 41 degrees. Temperature: Do not let red ginger experience temperatures below 45 degrees Fahrenheit for long periods of time. Water: When it comes to watering the red ginger plant, make sure its soil constantly moist. It has naturalized in other areas and is considered an invasive species in some parts of the world.Light: Partial sun is fine, but red ginger will grow best in full sun. Native to the Eastern Himalayas region of India, Nepal, and Bhutan.Keep an eye out for glasshouse red spider mites, aphids, and root rot.Containers should be overwintered indoors in a cool, dry, frost-free location.

In cold winter areas, lift them in fall and store them for winter in slightly moist vermiculite or peat in a cool, dry location. Plant your rhizomes in the ground in spring after the last frost date.A pretty addition to beds and borders, containers, cottage gardens or Mediterranean gardens.Performs best in full sun or part shade, in organically rich, moist, well-drained soils.Yellow Ginger Lily can spread considerably via its creeping underground rhizomes to form dense thickets. Even when not in flower, Yellow Ginger Lily looks great on patios or decks with a tropical theme. The spicily-scented blossoms are borne at the tips of upright stems clothed in pointed, softly hairy, lance-shaped leaves, up to 2 ft. Heavily perfumed, Hedychium flavescens (Yellow Ginger Lily) is an upright rhizomatous perennial boasting luminous clusters of pale to lemon yellow, butterfly-like flowers, each with a 2-lobed lip, in late summer and early fall.

Caring for red button ginger