Hedychium 'Tahitian Flame' Japanese Gardens

Hedychium 'Tahitian Flame' Japanese GardensHere is another FRAGRANT tropical flowering ginger lily that also has green and white variegated foliage. This plant will add a tropical flavor to your garden. Evergreen in mild climates, but deciduous in cooler areas. Hardy to zone 7. A relatively hardy ginger, going to zone 8, and flowering midsummer through fall. The plant will grow up to 5 6 ft tall and about 3 ft wide. In zone 8 the plant will be a perennial, dropping its leaves in late fall and

while in gardens where it is watered more sparingly with drip irrigation

Gorgeous foliage is the outstanding characteristic of this new hybrid by Cecil Smith and named and registered by Merle Sanders of Roseburg

Zones 9-10

Dramatic purple cones will cover this low and spreading steel blue conifer in late spring

looking like candy

This lovely rhododendron has light pink FRAGRANT flowers with some white and yellow that makes them glow

Trusses cut and brought indoors will perfume the house nicely

For long blooming

The plant habit is much more compact than 'Mi Amor'

which peels away from the trunk and branches revealing the beautiful shiny red new bark underneath

This new hybrid is ultra-fantastic

It makes a striking color accent or a wonderful container plant