Zingiber mioga Crugs Zing Texas native plants a great specimen plant for

a great specimen plant for the summer woodland garden

the winter deciduous Ruellia 'Black Beauty' makes a 10" tall x 18" wide clump of dark black thumb-shaped leaves

which ages to gold

most threadlike foliage of any upright bluestar species

Zingiber mioga Crugs Zing Texas native plants a great specimen plant forZingiber mioga 'Crug's Zing' is a Bleddyn Wynn Jones Crug Farm wild collection of mioga ginger from Chejudo Island, Korea. The dark green, 4" wide x 14" long leaves cloth the 4' tall upright fleshy stalks. Zingiber 'Crug's Zing' is a reasonably quick spreader, forming an 8' wide patch in good soil in five years. The base of each stalk is adorned with orchid like, burgundy and yellow bicolor flowers from September until a hard freeze.