How to Plant and Grow Ginger Lilies - Bare Root Hedychium

With milder winters, and a far better availability from our traditional garden and on-line retailors, Ginger lilies are slowly becoming the 'must-have' plants of the season. In fact, no self-respecting cold hardy, tropical effect and exotic garden should be without one, especially with a number of choice specimens capable of surviving outside in our UK winters - albeit in the milder regions of the southern and south-western counties. With so many fancy, as well as RHS tried and tested hybrids, available just how do you plant and grow bare-root ginger lilies (Hedychium hybrids)? English horticulturist Simon and Lorna explain how.