Xanthosoma Aurea lime Zinger for Alpinia zerumbet variegata (variegated shell ginger). Please email me if u r interested

Most cats find the smell of ginger repulsive. Dogs are a bigger problem.

I have the same problem in Huntington Beach. Young growth is always heavily and beautifully variegated, later growth is nearly all green, but flowers are still the typically dysmorphic one of varietated alpinia zerumbet. I thought this was a probable trait of maturing plants, until I saw a full growth of highly variagated alpinia in several different clumps at Legoland. My plants get a lot of early am sun (typically haze) and shade by afternoon. They're growing somewhat as volunteers in heavy clay, moist soil, as that's where I happended to toss the rhizomes.

It is frustrating because I see these all over town and they do not seem to get hit like ours have. They are against a fence in the backyard but that evidently does not prvide much of a buffer. They just got too big this year to throw covers over. We are looking to even build a movable "greenhouse frame", if you will so we can prop it up ang cover the frame. We like the gingers getting large but we need to protect them during the infrequent but inevitable cold snap (single overnight dips into the 20's). So, when they take a terminating frost, is there a way to predict where the new shoots will emerge? Is there a way to protect the core to maybe "guide" where new shoots will emerge? We have the base mulched but I am not familiar enough with these to know what to predict. We do not get to experiment in North Carolina with them :) I am new to the Slidell, LA. Terri