Globba Species, Dancing Girls Ginger, Dancing Ladies Ginger, Jungle Jewels Ginger

I live in zone 9a. My yard and nearly every potted plant on my patio has these pretty little gingers popping up in them. So, they are p...Read Morerolific. The nursery I frequent also has them volunteering everywhere. They invite people to pull some up and take them away! They don't even try to sell them. I like them, though. They are charming and, besides, I'm very partial to all sorts of gingers.

I have my dancing ladies planted in semi shade with moist well draining soil.....When they bloom it changes colors from white to pink to ...Read Morefuschia with little yellow flowers that are considered the dancing ladies....She dies back come wintertime and reappears in the spring.

I have been growing Dancing Ladies since 2008 when a dear friend cut a blossom for me. I left it in water so long that it rooted (over a...Read More month). Since then I have rooted them every year. My clippings are about 8-10 inches tall.

In Athens, GA then plant needs to be brought in for the winter, so I have it in a pot, bring it in before the first freeze and return it to the terrace in early spring.

I bought this plant in bloom at a local nursery and placed the pot under my monkeypod tree while I considered where to plant it. It sat ...Read Morethere and bloomed for months. I watered it when I thought about it, but certainly not enough to keep it consistently moist. Its blooms never faltered. I finally decided on a location that would put it in shade half the day, though the soil there was on the dry side. It immediately died to the ground, even though I was watering it daily. I was heart broken! I've only seen it for sale that one time, so there's no running out to the nursery to replace it. I thought perhaps it would come back, so I watered its remains and hoped for the best--NOTHING. Well, it's best not to mourn lost plants too long here on Maui because the weeds are lying in wait en masse to take advantage of any empty space, so I planted a banana in its place and moved on with my life. The banana has been there about a year now, and I have just discovered my globba winitii is back and blooming from all around the base of the banana!!!!