Elephant Ear Bulbs

Gardeners love this exotic favorite as a screen or as a background for smaller plants and flowers. Love the dramatic, huge foliage of Elephant Ears but don't have a sunny spot to plant them?

'Sangria' Elephant Ear's light green foliage and wine-colored stalks create an extraordinary statement in the summer garden. Needs full sun to come to size in cool climates, but tolerates part-shade farther south.

Plant this Elephant Ear bulb, stand back, and in no time at all you'll be watching the huge leaves unfurl to create one of the most dramatic foliage plants you'll find. (Colocasia esculenta)

Always a highlight in any garden, and very easy to grow and care for. Planted in the garden or in containers, this upright variety's deep leaf ribs and thick stem stalks will transform outdoor areas into lush, personal paradises.

In northern gardens, this also makes it easy to bring the plant indoors for overwintering. These plants produce underground stolons, which create new colonies of plants as they root.

Be sure to wear gloves; not only can herbicides cause nasty chemical burns, but people have reported skin irritations from handling elephant ear tubers.Dig down 2-3 feet to make sure you are getting all the tubers out.

Avoid overhead watering to prevent consistently wet leaves.To prevent Pythium rot, use good sanitation practices and use pure irrigation water. Each starts as a brown lesion that then dries up and falls out of the leaf.

Read on to learn more about how to overwinter elephant ear bulbs and plants.for the winter. You can also cut off any remaining foilage at this time.After you clean the elephant ear bulbs, they must be dried.

Freezing temperatures kill foliage and damage tubers. These plants come in a variety of colors and sizes. Place them in a cool, dark area such as a basement or crawlspace. During dry spells, you may want to water plants regularly, especially those growing...

Use a diluted liquid plant food starting in spring once per month.Prune off foliage as it dies or gets damaged. Larger plants, like Colocasia, can stay in the ground but the foliage may die back if the temperatures get cool.Spread thick mulch around the...

Your collection of elephant ears has now effortlessly expanded and can be planted in the ground or kept in containers. Tubers cut cleanly with a texture like a potato. Most rise from rhizomes, which are fairly easy to divide.

Insects that nibble the edges or suck sap from the leaves may cause this damage. Give it a high nitrogen plant food in spring and again midseason to promote healthy big foliage.They are also susceptible to cold temperatures.

For this reason, elephant ears make great landscape plants in, around, or near water features in the garden. At that time, propagation via tuber root division may occur.Flowering of the indoor elephant plant is rare, although when grown outdoors, the...

The most common species used as a food source isAs mentioned, taro is tropical to subtropical, but if you don't live in such a climate (USDA zones 10-11), you can try growing taro in a greenhouse.

It grows through the summer and matures in October and November, at which time theDasheen tubers are planted whole at a depth of 3 inches and spaced 2 feet apart in 4 foot rows for cultivation.

Most of the Alocasia species that I consider to be "jewels" are small growers suitable for a windowsill or small conservatory. However, not all Jewel Alocasias are so diminutive! Read on to learn about this Giant of the Jewels .

So I resolved that I would dedicate myself to finding out what the problem was so I could, at long last, finally grow one of these humongous Alocasias to maturity for myself.Acting on this hypothesis, I tried several of the commercially available biocontrol...

This is, perhaps, the most diverse group of "Big Ears". All in all, you are sure to find a large Ear for your tropical corner or garden in this group. Alocasia 'Borneo Giant', a notable member of the group, is among the largest of the large Alocasia species.

In addition to this, a few offer some coloration or variegation in addition to the default green. If your growing area is very limited, the Jewel Alocasias will fit right in. Some plants are like icons in gardens, and when crafting a tropical garden,...

Back then, I did not have too much in the way of funds, so as I learned of other rare aroids, I also learned that obtaining some of them was far out of my budget. Likewise, traveling to distant lands to discover new and exotic plants that I could trade...

So you should not assume that the specimen you obtained in a swap is one of the edible ones! I have seen fields of both edible kinds growing in south Florida, however. While the genus Alocasia holds some of the largest Big Ear type aroids, several other...

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Eye's are pink or white dots or bumps on the top portion of the tuber (as opposed to the bottom where you'll see roots).Give the prepared tubers a little longer to dry completely. The tuber needs this time to draw nutrients from the leaves and stems,...

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