Greg and Bob talk about wild ginger, a plant that makes a great native ground cover. You have to get down on your knees to see the flower. Who pollinates this flower that is hidden from view?
Related episode: The Nature of Oaks with Doug Tallamy
Our sources for this episode include:
- Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover: The Curious Case of Wild Ginger Pollination
- Wild Ginger
- Caring For Wild Ginger: How To Grow Wild Ginger Plants
Wild Ginger in Bob’s yard 
Wild Ginger flower
Wow amazing
I reclaimed about 100 square feet of lawn under a Walnut tree with an adjacent Redbud by shredding many bags of Oak leaves and just covering up the grass last fall. Then this year I added some mulch from branches of a Bradford Pear Tree that I cut down and chipped up. I planted on Wlld Ginger plant in there this Spring to see how it would do. So far so good. I plan to add three more plants in hopes they’ll spread. Hopefully they’ll fill in the whole area.
Sounds like a wonderful project. I hope your wild ginger continues to do well.
Nice show Bob.