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 -