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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 18/01/2009 : 12:58:55
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I love that intense purple
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 18/01/2009 : 14:25:51
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Thanks Pamela..Yes it is a pretty unusual colour for a ginger too I think !!
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 18/01/2009 : 15:39:17
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Nice colour  I like it and hope mine look as good whenever they decide to flower.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 18/01/2009 : 15:53:06
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Yes it is a nice colour Gail, shame more buds dont open at once.
I like it.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 10/02/2009 : 22:01:16
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I found out recently this is not a Ginger but Dichorisandra thyrsiflora.
Thats the trouble with Sunday Markets they have no idea of the names of plants they sell.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 06:41:39
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Very pretty MA,  the colour
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 07:18:01
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Thanks Cheryl.
It is a pretty colour and I found lots more spikes of flowers starting to open it's not a very old plant and is around 150cm tall now..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 07:36:19
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Do they get out of control like the common ginger and also waterwise ??
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 10:45:27
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MA. That Dichorisandra thyrsiflora flower is so georgeous .
I Googled it and got some lovely pics of it growing in a large
clump ,so lovely . does it seed well.If it does I'd love a few seeds.
On several sites they are still calling it a ginger, then in small
print say not a true ginger ,
These are people selling the plant so I reckon the plant would sell better as Ginger than Dichorisandra .Pitta.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 10:49:32
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quote:
Bauhinia of Sorts I grew from a seed off a tree down the shops.
Where you waring those sandles again 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 11/02/2009 : 11:15:45
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I think years ago Dichorisandra used to be used as a replacement plant for the gingers before the gingers became easily available for those of us out of the tropics. I remember them when I first got into plants many years ago. They were also a tougher plant and easier to grow than gingers.
Besides ginger is just a common name for many types of plants - alpinia, cucurma, kaempferia, zingiber, costus and others which I can't think of right now.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 12:29:27
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Cheryl I have no idea if they get out of control I will let you know if it starts running.
No not the same sandals Cheryl as that was about 8 years ago..
I would have just picked a seed pod hanging from the tree this time. 
It does not get as much water as the other Tropicals do I dont know if its water-wise though.
Gwen its the first time it has flowered so I will keep a look out for any seeds..
Gail I call lots of plants Gingers also.
You wrote earlier on you have some, have yours flowered yet..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 12:44:40
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Mine haven't flowered yet and I'm not positve that they are Dichorisandra but I presume so. I bought them from the markets and when I asked if they knew the name they just said they thought it was a ginger and thought it had blue flowers. I only paid $5 for 3 plants so it didn't really worry me what sort of ginger they were 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 13:32:59
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No it would not worry me at that price either.
Gail looking back through my handwritten gardening book I bought that plant 13th January last year so maybe it takes about a year in the ground before it flowers, depending on the Season of course
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
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A Couple Of First Time Flowers And Others.
