On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:20:49 GMT, David Wright
> wrote:

>It grows about five feet tall in the tropics, I've read, but mine
>doesn't get more than about two feet tall. You could always trim it
>back, of course, if it gets too competitive with your orchids.
>
>As I said on another thread, I'd like to try growing galangal also, if
>I can find some locally.

This works just about the same. In fact, I grew both ginger and
galangal in the same (large) pot. I recommend the experiment because
they're both (related) attractive plants. I've never had either bloom,
but perhaps they didn't get enough sun. I don't recommend as an
ever-ready supply of ginger, as the original rhizome rarely gets more
than twice as large in a fairly long growing season. But a knob of
ginger that grows into an attractive plant in one summer is a bargain.