Zingiber mioga Crugs Zing Texas native plants the winter deciduous Ruellia 'Black

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

which ages to gold

As with all dianthus

sweetly-fragrant

Zingiber mioga Crugs Zing Texas native plants the winter deciduous Ruellia 'BlackZingiber 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.