True ginger is a tall, tropical plant and even with the heat of a greenhouse, is likely to fail to produce fresh ginger roots. But some relatives of ginger are successful in Irish gardens. These are ...

If you’re a daffodil lover, you may have wondered about the flower’s famous trumpeting, cupped receptacle. It’s called a corona — and botanists are confounded, too, as to its function. However, the ...

Ginger lily (Hedychium coronarium), or platanillo in Spanish, is a hardy ornamental for the tropical home garden that provides lush tropical foliage and fragrant flowers. An herbaceous perennial ...

Weaver birds chirp merrily around a ginger lily flower bud as the travellers sit nearby enjoying a sumptuous lunch at Sarova Whitesands Hotel, Mombasa. A year ago, Jahera Biondi saw the lovely ginger ...

Zingiberaceae Purpurata commonly called Ginger Lily or Hawaiian Ginger originated in Malaysia and South East Asia and was brought to Hawaii in the mid-1930s. It is an ornamental flowering plant, which ...

The highly fragrant, showy flowers and the bold leaves that ginger lilies produce create an undeniable tropical feeling even in temperate gardens. The flowers of this plant come in a wide array of ...

If fragrance is the strongest trigger of memory, then the scent of ginger lilies must surely be the key to calling up the most delicious recollections of summer. The ginger, or butterfly lily, ...

The famous trumpeting, cupped receptacle on daffodils is called a corona, and botanists are confounded as to its function. However, the presence of the corona does assist us in explaining why daffodil ...