Caladium

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Elephant Ear
Caladium a.k.a Taro
Colocasia esculenta
Started in 2002 from a bulb given to us by Ted B. Each year the plant continues to multiply.

These summer bulbs will produce leafs that will give a look of the tropics in your garden! Plant as a lush screen, along shady borders, in pots. Grows to 4 feet. Full to partial shade, moist soil.

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Early & Mid Summer 2005
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Wintering the Bulbs

Each fall, before the first frost, the Caladium bulbs are dug up and set out to dry up. In 2005, we dug them early one cold morning before leaving on vacation and set them in the garage. Then a week later, we snipped off the wilted leaves and put them in open cardboard boxes and let stored them in our cool basement.

In 2007, we cut down the foliage on a few bulbs and they seemed to work fine the next year.

Caladium Bulbs foliage will dry up and in mid-March, more dirt is knocked off and allowed to dry more. Planting is down the very first part of June with the ground becomes warm enough for the bulbs to grow.
	Drying in the Box	Large Mother bulb, with several small babies.	Young bulb with some of the foliage stripped off. Note baby bulb on the right.