Removing Ornamental Flowering Ginger. Beautifully scented.

Making room for my outdoor Orchids as the flowering ornamental Ginger has been crowding the bench with my Cymbidium and Pleione Orchids. I'll replant some rhizomes into a large pot set in the ground to keep it from spreading. Progress !
I'm now done... and done in !

[@newmanmansell760]

Hi Wane😌🙌That's a hardy and tough ginger plant you have in the garden.
In Japan here the cultivated member of the ginger family is the Zingiber mioga Japanese ginger is a deciduous perennial in the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) native to Japan. It flowers on a stem and just as it breaks through the ground it's cut and used in vegetable dishes and pickles.
It's very cold hardy down to -16℃ so here it goes down to -8℃ and it dies down to its rhizomes.

[@waynesweirdworld5788]

@@newmanmansell760 ... thank you for that info. I'm not aware of this one being edible, but I'll try and find out.
Cheers

[@gromit9322]

Ginger plants are classified as an invasive, noxious weed in Auckland and has to be dug up and burnt if found on your property, so I was amused to see you looking after your patch!

[@waynesweirdworld5788]

@@gromit9322 ... I don't think they're a declared weed yet ... but it only takes a few people dumping the rhizomes in bushland and they'll be a problem. Agapanthus, Banana Passionfruit, Pampas Grass... etc
So many problem plants.