Pot Size: 2 litre Price: £15.00 Description: Only recently introduced to western horticulture from a collection in north-western Yunnan. A sturdy species with glossy green broad leaves to around 50cm long that clasp the robust stems. Forming by late summer a terminal spike of imbricate (broad overlapping) bracts that the individual distinctive bright yellow broad flowers push their way out of, in sequence of up to 6 lightly scented flowers, over up to a 6 week period. Proved to be perfectly hardy for us in our woodland garden, where it has flourished and multiplied for the past 10 years. Grow in a well drained, but moisture retentive soil in good light. All Hedychium rot if grown in wet soils, nothing to do with hardiness just drainage. After all they have evolved from epiphytes.
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