Red ginger progression
A while back I posted a series of progression photos for the heleconia flower. This time I want to share the same sequence for the red ginger. At first the flower appears at the very tip of a leafy branch. Every branch has a flower that forms on the tip of it, so it make for a very colourful and prolific plant. This opens up into a lovely red flower, which grows bigger and longer over the course of a couple of months. Eventually shoots start to form at the base of the flower, as you can see to the left of this photo. These can be propogated by a method called layering, when you would bend this down and secure with a type of large staple into a pot of soil. I imagine what happens in the wild is this flower would eventually get heavy and fall down and lay on the ground where roots would form. I propogated all of mine in this way.