Re: My new 'Ae-Ae'!
Crawfish boil sounds great. I've got all the stuff. The Lat. Orange Gyro is supposed to be a fairly cold hardy heliconia. I'm not growing that one. I'm afraid that Zingiber Malaysianum "Midnight" in not going to be a good performer for you. I grew it in the ground for 3 years and each year it came back about half the size until it just disappeared and I had it in a protected spot. I then grew it in a pot and it went totally dormant in my greenhouse; it's an evergreen zingiber and is not supposed to go dormant. It hasn't come back yet in the pot. I need to check it out to see if there is anything left. In 5 years of growing this ginger, I never bloomed it. A nicer zingiber ginger is Z. Collinsii "silver streaks". Hardy in our zone and nice blooms after the first year. A real winner.
Steve
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