Those of you who enjoy the hot, spicy tang of ginger as a seasoning will find growing it in the home garden easy and practically care-free. Recently a reader sent me an email and asked how she could ...

While following paths through the conifer forests in the North State, hikers often encounter the shiny, bright green, heart-shaped leaves of wild ginger plants. For me, these happy hearts on the ...

Gingers are a summer highlight in Houston area gardens. We can grow several genera, short to tall. And each genus offers beautiful foliage and flowers. The hedychiums, however, are the most fragrant ...

As the rains intensify during the last months of the year and growing vegetables becomes a real challenge, gardeners in Costa Rica can turn their attention to tending and planting hardy ornamentals ...

Long summer days are required to get many plants to flower, especially when it comes to the family of gingers. We often take for granted that which we have in abundance. When we are in good health, we ...

Canadian wild ginger (Asarum canadense), a perennial plant with attractive foliage, has become an increasingly popular ground cover for shaded areas of landscapes. It is native to the woodlands of ...

The yellow ginger is flowering for the first time at The World Garden at Lullingstone Castle An unusual yellow plant, rarely cultivated in the UK, is flowering at a tourist attraction in Kent for the ...

Visitors to our Islands frequently comment on how fragrant our air smells with the abundance of flowers in bloom. Gingers are among the easiest plants to grow for this purpose. Many species have ...

Ginger flowers switch their working gender–from female to male or vice versa–in unison around lunchtime. This newly discovered synchronized gender swap in nine species of the genus Alpinia reduces the ...