GINGER? AND HELICONIA ON THE RIGHT

oh wow thats beautiful

i always go to the exotic display areas- they are usually stunning.
Got lots of pics before we went digital-not sure if son can scan them.I will have to look into that!
The year we went to Chelsea they had a South African stand with Protea etc in the Floral Pavilion-it was a knockout!
I think we spent more time in there than looking at the show gardens which we couldn't get near!
If you ever watch Carol Klein do the walkabout at Chelsea she is great,I always watch the whole week-I know the show gardens are sometimes totally irrelevant to ordinary folks gardens but for me it's the plants!

This is fantastic! I do wonder what it is. Our biology greenhouse at university has a ginger tree and the blossom is more flower like, this one seems more bromeliad shape. I have a tree that looks like this though I've never seen it bloom. Would be wonderful if it looks like this! Thought I knew my tree but alas a google search and I don't. I'll keep looking. This specimen is wonderful!

Hi there
It is from Trinidad and Tobago-I think it is a pink ginger-don't think the leaves showing are part of it but for arrangement purposes.

A wow plant!

Amazing display, I 'd love to know what the long bi-colored stalks on the far left are !

That kind of looks like bamboo to me Flcrazy.

You wouldn't happen to know what type by any chance ?

~Hi Flcrazy
~I have had a look at this from a different angle as we have lots of pics of this stand(Trinidad and Tobago) at Hampton Court,and it is definitely Heliconia possibly Chartacea-will try to find out for you~

Sorry, no I don't. Sounds like Arlene's got it :)

Way to go Arlene.. ! Thanks a million . I wouldn't have figured it out on my own.!

Hi there Fl
~had a look at this site here in the UK called jungleseeds-has all kinds of tropicals and I wonder whether this is actually Heliconia Rostrata?~
~there are some really lovely ones might have a go......