LINKS TO OTHER GINGER WEBSITES
KAEMPFERIA REFERENCE. Jim Frechette has been studying and collecting Kaempferias for several years, and has posted a new website on this genus. There are many photos of uncommon Kaempferias that are in cultivation, as well as some very good tips on how to grow them.
TIM CHAPMAN'S WEBSITEon ornamental gingers NOTE: Tim's website is no longer in operation as of 2006.. The first and best ginger website, my first source of information when I started growing gingers. Tim is starting to revive his ginger business and has made some recent changes to the website.
NOTE 7/23/2001: Tim's web server shut down and his ginger pages are now on a new web site. Since this is a commercial enterprise, it has now been listed under "Sources/Mail Order"
Southern Perennials and Herbs, Tylertown, Mississippi No longer selling plants, business is for sale, a new web site with ginger descriptions is still on line. "Southern Perennials and Herbs was, for 12 years, a wholesaler and retailer of a huge variety of plant materials especially adapted to the growing conditions of the "Deep South". Although we are no longer in the nursery industry, our hearts shall forever remain with the many friends (and fans!) who made our years with Southern Perennials and Herbs a lasting pleasure. We dedicate this site to all of you, and in so doing we hope to preserve some of the spirit of camaraderie that has always permeated the world of those interested in rare and beautiful plants.
Our focus here is on preserving the plant pictures and descriptions which were on our former site. We are also pleased to be able to continue to offer the best in gardening books from the biggest and best bookseller on the web - amazon.com. We'll be adding a lot of content and resources to this site, so please come back soon!
Linda Gay, Director of Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in Houston has a new ginger website set up in cooperation with Stephen F. Austin State University Arboretum. Be sure to click on the link or go directly to the bio page for Linda at . The write up is right on target when it says "Gay arrives at work each morning about 7:15, turns on the computer, answers e-mails, then heads out into the garden, where she works directly with the staff and volunteers. "I don't spend much time in the office," she says. "The garden is not in the office. I'm a hands-on person, and I want to continue learning. "
Ornamental Horticulture for the Houston Gulf Coast Area has a page on gingers giving a general description of most of the genera that are in the commercial nursery trade.
Selected Families of Angiosperms: Zingideridae by James L. Reveal, Norton-Brown Herbarium, University of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-5815
University of Hawaii, Botany Department, Zingiberaceae description
Of particular interest to ginger lovers is the Donald Angus Collection of Botanical Prints which contains prints Ca 1828, mostly from the Botanical Garden of Liverpool, and includes the genera Alpinia, Curcuma, Hedychium and Zingiber, along with early descriptions of the species.
Background to Zingiberaceae Research at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Research focused on the genus Alpinia.
Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawai`i - This is a fascinating article on gingers that came to Hawaii by canoe in the pre history of the islands. The article describes several gingers and gives the Hawaiian names. See also OLENA.
Zingiberaceae site of Keith Hayward of Farnborough, Hampshire, England. Keith has listed his ginger collection here, and a fine one it is.
Bob Campos' Ginger Garden website - Bob has not been collecting gingers very long but you would not know that if you visited his garden. He has put together a huge collection of gingers in a very short time and it publishing his experiences at this web site. Bob also is a professional website designer and created Tim Chapmans new website at www.gingerwoodnursery.com.
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