This plant does best in partial shade to full shade. However, when grown as an annual or when overwintered indoors, it can be expected to perform differently, and its exact height and spread will depend on many factors you may wish to consult with our experts as to how it might perform in your specific application and growing conditions. In its preferred tropical habitat, it can grow to be around 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. If you want it to survive the winter, it can be brought in to the house and provided with special care, and then returned to the garden the following season. In our climate, it is usually grown as an outdoor annual in the garden or in a container. This plant is native to the tropics and prefers growing in moist environments with evenly warm conditions all year round. Red Button Ginger is recommended for the following landscape applications It has no significant negative characteristics. This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

Red Button Ginger is an herbaceous evergreen tropical plant with a shapely oval form. Its attractive glossy oval leaves remain dark green in color throughout the year. Red Button Ginger features showy spikes of orange flag-like flowers with yellow overtones and ruby-red bracts at the ends of the stems from mid winter to late fall. Other Names: Scarlet Spiral Flag, Indian Head GingerĪ beautiful plant with spiraled stems and broadly oval deep green glossy foliage the bracts of the flowers are deep red and stand out against the foliage easy to grow and flowers most of the year excellent for patio pots, or massed on the landscape

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