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Mary-Anne
garden sage
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 Posted - 28/02/2009 : 09:20:14
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Cheryl have a look at this link http://gardendelights.forumco.com/topic~ARCHIVE~true~TOPIC_ID~782.asp
I bought these three Gingers at the Ginger Factory up on the Sunshine Coast in August 07 they were planted the day after we came back and now 18 mts later I still have no sign of flowers on them. I have to be doing something wrong as some of the Gingers I bought at the same place last October have flowered already..
The red torch ginger has not flowered either and it would be 2.5 mts tall at present..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
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 Posted - 28/02/2009 : 10:03:55
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May pay to give them a call MA 
How is your one Gail, did it come back or is it 
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
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 10:09:10
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I know they do grow here as I have seen them in Ian and Judy Wintle place when they had the Open Garden one year and they are grown in full shade too, that's why I grew mine there.. May have to Google ..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2009 : 10:11:10
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your wearing your google out today 
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
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 10:14:38
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I have not got around to it yet.  Got to look up the green frogs first..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2009 : 10:15:52
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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 - 28/02/2009 : 11:06:51
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I've got no idea which ginger is which now as tags got mixed up and lost and when the plants die back over winter I forget which ones were where 
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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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2009 : 11:08:07
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but they all survived Gail ?
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 - 28/02/2009 : 11:16:26
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I think so but two special ones haven't flowered so not sure which one is which. I'll have to go back through my photos when I bought them... should have names on the pics.
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 - 28/02/2009 : 11:40:36
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Thats why I write on those venetian blind slats with my Artline Garden Marker they make the best labels for shoving in the ground the ink in them last for years as do the slats..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2009 : 15:11:48
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Those tags may last a long time but they go walkabout just as easy as the other tags I just had a walk around the garden looking for the beehive gingers and the one you gave me Mary-Anne is doing very well but no flowers, another one I bought is only about a foot high.
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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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2009 : 15:16:28
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funny that Gail mine just seem to go 'pooff' gone 
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 - 28/02/2009 : 16:11:35
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Thats good Gail.....My Tags are safe I have no dogs or children at home.
I have just come in from watering my gingers that torch ginger is huge, my second butterfly ginger has buds on it that I bought in October, no beehives on any of mine totaling four as I pulled some off each of those two. Costus the variegated crepe ginger is way taller than me and the smaller costus is very wide, the curcuma is shooting up too. The other three new gingers are just taking their time 
But I have lost a Canna Lily I potted it up for you a couple of weeks ago Cheryl yellow flower green and white leaves, put it with the white Salvia both doing very well, its just gone normally I would blame those blasted Ibis but I have not seen any lately they take the pot and all away, oh well I will pot another one up tomorrow.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2009 : 16:27:18
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 goody goody gumdrops 
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
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Posted - 28/02/2009 : 17:59:53
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I hope gingers flower this year MA they look nice ones.
The only ginger I have is the variegated leaf one, had red cone with little yellowish
white flower ,posted recently.
I would like to have lots of Gingers as I've more shady area's than sunny ones
but you can only get a few new plants at a time.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2009 : 19:38:22
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I hope they do too Gwen not having any luck with those three.'
Gwen I have keep some little red ginger for you that I grew from seeds that tube will fit in with those daylilies..
I will see in the Winter about any others I wont promise seeing they are not doing well but they are bigger rhizomes than Canna Lily.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Talking About Beehive Gingers ..