Ornamental ginger will not only add a unique flair to your garden, it will add spicy ginger flavor to your stir fries and soups. The ginger root we cook with is Zingiber officinale.

For many ornamental gingers, the flowers offer subtle hues of white or yellow, but this ginger species earns its nickname, 'Fire Ginger.' The flowers are a unique blend of salmon, orange and red ...

The most widely grown ornamental ginger in our area is theHedychium spp. also called butterfly ginger. These are the most cold-hardy gingers and range in height from 18 inches to 12 feet tall.

The 6- to 7-foot perennial also is ornamental. Curcuma domestica 'Longa', or turmeric, is a 4-foot ornamental ginger that's also used in Indian cuisine. Plant it in sun or part sun.

Q: How do you thin and move ornamental variegated ginger? — A.W., Houston A: I like to cut back the foliage for easier access to ginger roots when dividing. It will grow back soon as it's warm.

KAHALUU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Frustrated Oahu farmers are pleading for help in their attempt to figure out what’s killing off their ornamental ginger crops. The plants are popular for landscaping ...

Wild ginger can be prepared in candy like tropical ginger. To prepare a syrup, gather 1/4 cup of rhizomes, clean and boil it for 20-30 minutes and add sugar. Let it simmer and store in air-tight ...

Highly ornamental and perennial in Zone 6 and warmer areas, myoga ginger (Zingiber mioga), an Asian woodland species, is a popular culinary item in Japan. The variegated cultivar Dancing Crane is ...

Although it's a common culinary ingredient, you likely won't find this ginger. Some gardeners here have Alpinia nutans, a great foliage plant for shade ground cover that often is called cardamom.