While following paths through the conifer forests in the North State, hikers often encounter the shiny, bright green, heart-shaped leaves of wild ginger plants. For me, these happy hearts on the ...

As the rains intensify during the last months of the year and growing vegetables becomes a real challenge, gardeners in Costa Rica can turn their attention to tending and planting hardy ornamentals ...

Gingers are a summer highlight in Houston area gardens. We can grow several genera, short to tall. And each genus offers beautiful foliage and flowers. The hedychiums, however, are the most fragrant ...

The greening of the forests is upon us now and soon we'll be seeing a full canopy among the trees. Looking through the open woods as we were able to do for the last seven months is about to end. New ...

The yellow ginger is flowering for the first time at The World Garden at Lullingstone Castle An unusual yellow plant, rarely cultivated in the UK, is flowering at a tourist attraction in Kent for the ...

That said, let’s talk about some lovely species that make excellent garden specimens, some of which are well suited to spectacular cut flower arrangements. One of my personal favorites is shell ginger ...

Canadian wild ginger (Asarum canadense), a perennial plant with attractive foliage, has become an increasingly popular ground cover for shaded areas of landscapes. It is native to the woodlands of ...

Ginger flowers switch their working gender–from female to male or vice versa–in unison around lunchtime. This newly discovered synchronized gender swap in nine species of the genus Alpinia reduces the ...

The executive chef on the exclusive Makepeace Island is one of many faces set to appear at next year’s Ginger Flower and Food Festival. Some of the region’s best-known cooking identities will present ...