Hedychium flavescens Sasquatch Spain dark orange-red (RHS 42A) flowers

dark orange-red (RHS 42A) flowers

forming a 3' wide clump of long-tipped pointed blue leaves that also have a nice rippling to the margins

attractive selection for its beauty

This should only be planted where space is not a problem

This upright-growing native is a superb structural element in the early summer garden

Hedychium flavescens Sasquatch Spain dark orange-red (RHS 42A) flowers(aka: Hedychium Light Yellow) For years, we grew the Himalayan (Nepal, China, and India) Hedychium flavescens, only to watch freezing temperatures turn it to a pile of black plant snot before we ever saw the first flower, so we were thrilled when plantsman Alan Galloway shared his early flowering form, under the name Hedychium 'Light Yellow'. Our clump of the 2014 named Hedychium flavescens 'Sasquatch' has been in the ground here since 1999 and has