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Bananas, Gingers & Aroids
Hardy Gingers and Bananas make a superb statement in the exotic garden, The bananas such as Musa basjoo, the Japanese hardy banana or Musella lasiocarpa, the Chinese Lotus banana, are ideal for adding height and presence to your garden. Musa basjoo can reach impressive heights with plants reaching 4 or 5 metres often flowering and producing tiny inedible bananas.
As well as adding structure to your garden Hedychium gingers provide stunning flowers and heady fragrance in late summer and early autumn. Another ginger, Cautleya spicata form clumps with masses of yellow flowers and is hardy outdoors even in the far north. most are hardy in Southern of England, but may require some winter protection in colder areas.
To find out more about wrapping up big leaf plants such as these for winter months, please follow this link: I need to wrap up my banana for the winter!
Ginger lillies - Care Advice
** Please note that we may cut the back the leaves on the bananas and gingers before despatch to minimise damage in transit**
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Canna 'Stuttgart'
Canna Lily
Canna 'Stuttgart' is fabulous white and green variegated canna with strong upright growth and large leaves. It is a vigorous srong growing variety reaching up to 1.50cm each year and producing large sprays of pinky orange flowers. Best planted in a s...
Large, pinky orange flowersLarge tropical like foliagefrom £19.50
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Cautleya spicata 'Robusta'
Himalayan Ginger
Cautleya spicata 'Robusta' is one of our favourite hardy gingers, this Cautleya only grows to around 1m high producing masses of dark green jungly leaves against burgundy red stems, it the garden it rapidly forms small elegant clumps with multi stems...
Exotic inflorescence with yellow flowers and red bractsLush jungle-like foliageReliable and early-floweringfrom £12.50
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Colocasia antiquorum 'Black Leaf Illustris'
Black Leaf Taro
Colocasias are widely grown throughout the tropics and are commonly known as ‘Taro’. They make an important addition of carbohydrate staple to many diets. Colocasia antiquorum ‘Black Leaf Illustris’, often just known as Colocasia Illustri...
essential Jungly leavesExotic dark green-black leavesEasy to growfrom £14.50
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Colocasia esculenta 'Hawaiian Punch'
Taro
Colocasia esculenta 'Hawaiian Punch' is another spectacular ornamental taro with large heart shaped nodding leaves which are richly veined in deep red and are held on glossy dark red stems up to 1.20cm high. The leaves on this colocasia are themselve...
Jungly and architecturalRed stems and leaf veiningEasy to growfrom £24.50
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Colocasia esculenta 'Kona Coffee'
Ornamental Black Leaf Taro
Colocasia esculenta 'Kona Coffee' is a beautiful new introduction from the plantsman Dr. John Cho in Hawaii with amazing heart shaped metallic looking purply-black brown leaves up to 40cm or more long. Said to be more compact than the species our sto...
Large Jungly leavesExotic dark green-purple-black leavesEasy to growfrom £16.50
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Colocasia esculenta 'Mojito'
Ornamental Taro
Colocasia esculenta ‘Mojito’, well – what can we say, this is really exciting. Colocasia mojito has outrageously beautiful leaves. They are randomly splashed in varying shades of green, purple and black. Each leave being different from th...
Jungly multi coloured leavesExotic foliageEasy to growfrom £24.50
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Colocasia esculenta 'White Lava'
Elephant Ear Taro
Colocasia esculenta ‘White Lava’ is another stunning newly introduced, hardy Taro with large, up to 50cm, heat-shaped glossy green leaves in which the centre veining is a pure creamy-white. This absolutely stunning colocasia is just as happy ou...
Jungly white and green leavesExotic foliageEasy to growfrom £24.50
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Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'
Purple Abyssinian Banana
Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii' is a fast growing, very jungly plant also known as the Red Abyssinian banana. Though not hardy it can be grown outside duriing the summer months either planted out or in a large container. Often growing to over 1.50 metr...
Fast growingfast growingCan be grown outside duriing the summer monthsfrom £24.50
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Hedychium 'Pink Princess'
Pink Butterfly Lily
Hedychium 'Pink Princess' is a fairly vigorous ginger plant quickly producing a large number of leafy stems topped with spikes of flowers having a beautiful pink-flushed white petals with a dark pink flame at the base, which also has an attractive sc...
Large pink flowersJungly foliageGood container plantfrom £24.50
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Hedychium Telstar 4
Telstar 4 Ginger
Hedychium Telstar 4 is a recent hybrid hardy ginger producing tall fairly narrow stems with deep green slender leaves. Hedychium Telstar 4 is proving popular due it's speed of growth, up to 1.50cm high, and the abundant delicate salmon pink flowerhea...
Exotic slender foliageSalmon pink flower racemesEasy to grow, great in a potfrom £24.50
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Hedychium aurantiacum
Orange-red Ginger Lily
Hedychium aurantiacum is a selected form of Hedychium coccineum chosen beause of it's superb bright orange flowers which are produced in abundanced late summer right up until the first frosts. The architectural narrow grey-green foliage looks stunnin...
Stunning orange flowersFiner growth habit than many other gingersGood addition to a jungle garden for its foliagefrom £16.50
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Hedychium densiflorum
Hardy Ginger Lily
Hedychium densiflorum is a lovely compact ginger which first introduced into the UK in the 1930's which has since proved to be one of the hardiest gingers available. We have Hedychium densiflorum growing planted out in the ground here in West Sussex...
Very hardyFree floweringClump forming varietyfrom £16.50
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Hedychium forrestii
Forests Ginger
Hedychium forrestii is beautiful jungly hardy ginger with large showy leaves topped in late summer by white open flower clusters. Forests ginger has a sweet delicate fragrance to the flowers which often have pale pink to yellow bases to the stamens a...
Large very exotic foliageLarge white fragrant flowersEasy to grow, great in a potfrom £24.50
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Hedychium greenii
Ginger Lily
Hedychium greenii is a superb foliage plant, with maroon stems and undersides of the leaves, with the top of the leaf a dark glossy green. Hedychium greenii has a softer gently arching appearance than its spiky architectural relatives with large flo...
Green-maroon foliageArching habitOrange-red flowersfrom £24.50
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Hedychium wardii
Wards Ginger
Hedychium wardiii is really beautiful hardy ginger with large wonderfully fragrant bright yellow flowers unlike other gingers. Reaching up to 1.5 metres high this ginger is proving remarkably hardy and easy to grow rapidly forming clumps of arching s...
Exotic architectural gingerLarge bright yellow fragrant flowersEasy to grow, great in a potfrom £9.50
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Musa basjoo
Hardy Banana Tree
Musa basjoo, the Japanese hardy banana, is a fabulous hardy banana, which when given rich soil and plenty of feed can reach 4m or more. It is root hardy so shoots from the ground each year if frosted but if the trunk is protected it gets larger each ...
Fast growingFast growingCan be grown outside duriing the summer monthsfrom £39.50
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