We plant a fair amount of Wild Ginger in home landscape shade gardens. As you can see here in nature, it's a low growing ground cover doing well high and dry as Aphids, in depth Wisconsin Horticulture The Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is a striking tropical plant known for its vibrant, bird like flowers and lush, banana like foliage. It's admired both as a landscape plant in warm climates and African Boulder Plant extraordinary plants