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Old 01-11-2013, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by borjo View Post
My variegated ginger does beautifully in the shade. It's beauty is the light green striped leaves, no flowers. It grows only about to 2 feet high and fountains out. It does get hit by frost but easily grows back. No maintenance.
Borjo:

My variegated ginger plants produce a strand of beautiful shell-shaped flowers in late spring- early summer. The shape of that flower gives the plant its other name, Shell Ginger. Yours should also! If they don't, give them a stern lecture!