Looking lovely in late August is the variegated turmeric ginger, Curcuma longa ‘Snowdrift’. Thriving in light shade, this amazing garden plant is obviously both ornamental and useful. Discovered as a mutation by plantsman Richard O’Brien, this amazing selection is late to emerge, rarely making a garden appearance before mid-June in NC. Our oldest clumps, planted in 2013, are now 2′ tall x 3′ wide. Hardiness is Zone 7b-10b.
You promised to give us correct information, right? So please correct this to TURMERIC, with an “r”, even though a “common” name. That name is older than Curcuma longa!
Nice catch, missed by all of us who proofread.
An inadvertent typographical error: ‘turmeric’, not ‘tumeric’.
already corrected