This is my documentary of my Yellow Cream Hedychium Flavum butterfly ginger. I no longer grow this ornamental ginger variety. It’s non-edible, useless for me. I got tired of looking at the plant and flowers and maintaining size and control because it keeps bunching just like any other ginger plants.

Description: Hedychium Flavum ginger strives in zone 7 to 11. It is a tropical perennial and related to culinary ginger, it is considered one of the most attractive of all ginger lilies. It is easiest to grow. Grows best in semi-shaded areas but can live well in full sun if given continual moist soil. It can be grown directly in standing water such as a pond or river bank. From midsummer through autumn, it blooms clusters of yellow 6-12 in. wonderfully fragrant flowers.

Pollinators: They attract butterflies and honey bees and are gorgeous as cut floral arrangements.

Planting: I’m growing this beautiful ornamental fragrant ginger in zone 9B of central Florida. When I ordered it, it was a tiny 2 inches piece of rhizome for $16 in November 2019. Ginger grown from rhizomes establishes plants quicker than if plants are transplanted. The energy in a fresh rhizome will make a bigger plant faster than if you purchase a small plant, the rhizome is already a big plant; it just has not yet put out top growth. Rhizomes divisions do not suffer transplant stress like plants with leaves do. These ginger rhizomes stay very alive for weeks if just kept moist.

Growing: It’s happy thriving in the ground in my backyard near the fence near a flooding zone. It gets plenty of water and mostly shaded throughout the day. Choose a spot that gets full sun-part shade, keep watered, and your ginger will reward you with bloom. It will multiply annually.

I used to sell this ginger variety, but not anymore.