What Ginger makes a natural shampoo?

• 🎍Pine Cone Ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet), also called Shampoo Ginger due to its unique, milky substance found in the cones. It is widely used as a natural shampoo in Asia and Hawaii, and even found in commercial shampoos.
• 🎍Fragrant and Spicy: All parts of the plant are known for their strong, spicy fragrance.
• 🎍Stunning Flowers: The cone-shaped flowers are long-lasting and perfect for cut flower arrangements.
• 🎍Fun history: Pinecone ginger is a canoe plant, brought across the Pacific by ancient Polynesian settlers.

📚 Gingers from previous posts:

• 🟡Favorite Ginger - African Princess
• 🟡Most interesting edible gingers
• 🟡5 most spectacular Ginger species
• 🟡How to French Kiss: the Red Button Ginger

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🎸 How to have the Deep Purple mood year around

• 🟣 Calathea rufibarba - Fuzzy Pheasant Feather, Deep Purple Velvet Furry - a favorite of shade garden landscapers. This thin, fuzzy, rippled leaf Calathea is very attractive as well as durable. A purple leaf back adds to this plants rich color and texture.
• 🟣 The upper foliage of Calathea rufibarba is semi-glossy, and olive green. The under side of the foliage, along with the stems are rich burgundy to deep purple!
• 🟣 The stems are covered with fine purplish-brown hairs.
• 🟣 Place your Deep Purple Calathea in bright filtered or indirect light.

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⛲️ What to plant by the pond?

• 🐘 Elephant Ears Illustris Colocasia is a classic beauty.
• 🐘 The heart-shaped, large purple-and-green leaves of Illustris are huge, and their dark highlights are stunning.
• 🐘 This elephant ear is a lover of moist shade, but does best with a little dappled sunlight.
• 🐘 It will tolerate boggy conditions.
• 🐘 Provide light shade to full shade and consistently moist or boggy soil.
• 🐘 It is a strong fast growing variety that does great in container, landscapes, ponds and patios.

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👑 Fun Fact: King Anthurium

🔖 Crowning its title, Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium - boasts leaves up to 3 feet long! Majestic houseplant! Very hard to find, rare plant.

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😈 Fun Fact: Voodoo Lily

👹 Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, blooms from a single corm and releases an unforgettable scent, often compared to rotting meat. Despite its bizarre appearance and smell (that only lasts one day!), it's a showstopper that can easily be grown as a houseplant.

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