If you find yourself longing for fall colors even after peppermint has replaced pumpkin, visit Kathryn’s Garden. Click here to learn more about our ginger collection. This is the ginger that we use to cook with. You can even find Zingiber officinale in the Garden. You can find the queen lily ginger in the Lea Asian Garden and the red button ginger in the Kapnick Brazillian Garden. The flowers of the red button ginger are edible, with torch ginger buds being popular in Southeast Asian dishes like stewed fish, chili sauce, and salads. I’ve always thought it looks like a growing pineapple, but the resemblance is only superficial as the two plants are not related. A central cone grows out of the plant with multi-colored bracts that house golden-yellow flowers. The structure of the queen lily is unique. The queen lily ginger (Curcuma petiolata) and the red button ginger (Costus woodsonii) are two of my favorites. This large family of about 50 genera and 1,600 species has a variety of flower colors, shapes, and sizes. HeliconiaĪll throughout the Garden, you can find plants from the Zingiberaceae, or ginger, family. Pollen from the drooping flower rubs onto the hummingbird’s head, which transfers it to the next flower. The hummingbirds hover in front of the opening, and stick their heads inside to drink the nectar. Heliconia are almost exclusively pollinated by hummingbirds. The flowers are hidden inside the waxy, specialized, bright leaves called bracts. The hanging row of inflorescences is called a panicle. Commonly known as lobster-claws and toucan beaks, these red and yellow oddities can be found in our Kapnick Brazilian Garden. Often mistaken for bananas, plants from the Heliconia genus have some of the strangest flowers in the Garden. You can find Colville’s Glory in Irma’s Garden it is best observed from the Chuck and Jane Berger Shop in the Garden entrance. The tree thrives in Southwest Florida as our dry and wet seasons mimic the conditions of its native habitat. The foot-long clusters open to show off varying shades of red and yellow. You can enjoy them even before they bloom, as the buds themselves are bright orange. These are Colville’s glory ( Colvillea racemosa), native to the woodlands of Madagascar. Take a walk through the Garden in late fall to early winter, and you may see beautiful bunches of orange flowers. Tucked amid the foliage are reds, yellows, and oranges. The downside: no fall colors - or are there?Įxamine the Garden closely during the fall months. South Florida is the land of perpetual summer.
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