The ornamental ginger at work has come into bloom. The flowers looks so waxy and fake, but in a good way. Until I started gardening I never knew that you could get ornamental ginger. There is a whole range of plants that are available as ornamentals, so no fruit just pretty looking plant and they pretty much all start with the word Ornamental. The main ones that I can think of off the top of my head include Ornamental Ginger, Ornamental Plum and Ornamental Pear. The ginger in this photo is quite a large plant, forming large clumps of individual plants that can grow up to 2m high. If they get too dense, you can cut them back to ground level and the rhizomes will reshoot back into another mass. Its a great plant if you are going for a tropical look and when it bursts into bloom like this, how could you possibly be disappointed?
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