Our immediate neighbor is a family from Milpitas, CA (right near where I used to work). They own their Hawaiian home as a second, vacation home and they come out every month or so to visit friends and family on Oahu. A few months back, my neighbor, a great gardener, (I swear sometimes they come over for a few days just to weed their side yard and vegetable gardens. Couldn’t we all be so lucky!) knocks on my door and asks if she can cut a few of the red ginger blooms we have in our side yard (planted by a landscaper last year – I cannot take credit for them). She was heading back home and was going to try to grow them at her yard in the Bay Area. Knowing all Mainland-bound flights go through strict agriculture inspections, I asked her how she was going to get them there. Apparently, if all the dirt is completely washed off and you declare them, you’re good to go. Wait, I’m sidetracking myself…what I really learned that day was that you can cut them and then replant them and they grow into larger bushes with a single cut. So I’m trying that with my own red ginger slips - that's what they're called, right? - cut freshly from one side of our yard and inserted into a planter box a few feet away. If you know my Mom and her beautiful gardens, you’d think I’d be a great gardener. You’d be wrong! But I’m learning as I go and having fun even if my kill rate is alarmingly high. You will know if I am succeeding if you see spectacular photographs of lush, blooming red ginger in the future!
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