Lucia would have missed it even without the wrong turn.Kaiser Permanente members may now access Headspace Health's Ginger as part of Kaiser's digital self-care portfolio, providing on-demand, text-based coaching without a referral. Turns out that the school had given out the wrong information and that the funeral was at a different location than specified. Then go to the nursery and buy one (or two).

Mulching will be critical as the cold here in 8b will probably kill it to the ground in the winter.įor a lot more information I found this link: It is recommended for zone 9 and above if you want to plant it in the ground.

Keep it watered in the summer, not so much in the winter. Filtered light is ideal, but as I understand it they will grow in full sun or total shade. They are easy to grow and spread like crazy. The yellow flowers are edible and yes, I have eaten one. It is a fairly prominent location being right on the path to the Back 40 and is impossible to not notice as you walk the path. This was also interesting to me as my favorite internet destination to find out more about plants is the Missouri Botanical Garden website.Īs a ginger we figured that it could take a substantial amount of water and as one area around the pond holds water for a while after a rain, it got put there. Woodson, Jr., Missouri Botanical Garden curator and botanist. Costus are ginger like plants with spiraling stems. I’ve been referring to it as lipstick ginger, but a search for that got me to the more common name, red button ginger. Many times the label on the plants at the nursery might read something like tropical or ginger variant. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Fred Taylor, a Costus Woodsonii. Turns out that was a good idea so we headed out. I suggested that we go to the nursery and buy a plant that we could name it for him.

Lucia was pretty sad when I got home from work. The best that she could do was to find her way back to an area that she knew and then go home. The funeral was to be in an area of town that Lucia did not know very well and when she called me and told me where she was I knew that she had missed a turn and was in an area where there are so many interstate exits that I would not be able to get her to where she needed to go with phone directions. Although they picked with each other about eating habits and the too many electrical things Lucia had working in her classroom, they had a good working relationship. A few months ago the custodian at Lucia’s school passed away unexpectedly.

Caring for red button ginger