Hedychium gardenrianum (ginger lily) - how can I get it to flower?

I've always longed for one and have now bought it. However a friend tells me she's had one for years and it hasn't flowered. She says our summers are too short.


I didn't want it in a pot. Any suggestions?

Hedychium gardenrianum (ginger lily) - how can I get it to flower?
Hi please note the bloom time





Botani name:


Hedychium gardnerianum





Family:


Zingiberaceae





German name:


smelling Zieringwer, ginger lily





Short description:


Most beautiful and fluffiest Hedychium kind. Staude with thick, fleshy Rhizomen, which can deform plastic pots rapidly. On long bloom impulses show up the eastern sweetly smelling gold-yellow blooms with their long orangenen dust threads as upright bloom candles. Sheets and stature remind of Canna.





Homeland:


Himalaya, Nepal





Bloom time:


October - Decembers





Location:


sunny - halfshady, well humose earth





Pour, a fertilizing:


pour in the summer plentifully and fertilize weekly





Cut:


in the late winter soil-evenly back-cut





moegl. Parasits:


no special susceptibility





Hibernation:


brightly or darkly with 5 - 12 °C, nearly drying holds





Kind for excavator bucket culture:


H. coronarium (knows), H. densiflorum (yellow/orange), H. gardnerianum





Special characteristic:


- smell plant -