Alpinias are among the most rewarding and versatile plants in the tropical and subtropical garden — a large, diverse genus of gingers that ranges from the familiar pink porcelain ginger of Queensland roadsides to rare collector varieties that stop visitors in their tracks and prompt the inevitable question: what is that?

At El Arish we grow a carefully selected range of alpinias, from well-proven landscaping performers to genuinely uncommon species that rarely appear in Australian cultivation. What they share is bold, lush foliage that earns its place in the garden year-round, and flowering displays that range from quietly elegant to spectacularly showy depending on the species. Many make excellent cut flowers. Several attract nectar-feeding birds. A few, like the extraordinary Tahitian Ginger, are in a category of their own entirely.

Whether you’re building a tropical garden from scratch, adding structure and flowering interest to an established planting, or hunting down the rarer members of the genus for a serious collection, you’ll find something worth growing here.