Elephant Ears - mammoth

I haven't grown these in many years. I decided to plant some of the monster bubs this year but when I got home I looked at my yard and there is nothing tropical about the yard. I'm posting here since they are annual to VA.

I know the yard doesn't need a tropical theme to plant these beautiful leaves - but do you have pictures of your elephant ears to give me an idea of how to work them into my landscape? For some reason I just really want to plant them this year.....changing it up again!

Kathy

You will find lots of EE photos in the Aroid forum.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/aroids/all/

Ooh, another forum to follow!

And I just learned what "aroid" means. Thanks, franknjim!

what does it mean- I missed that

Aroid is a family of plants that includes EE's Alocasia & Colocasia, Caladiums, Philodendrons, Voodoo Lilies & more.

http://www.aroid.org/aroid/

I did elephant ears this year. Here's what my garden looked like yesterday. How did yours turn out?

Here is my best container of EE for Aug 1 2012

These are amazing and I want to grow more for 2013
Kathy

Gorgeous! I wish I'd done mine inn containers. I'll have to dig them up for the winter instead of just pulling the pots in.

I love the VERY LARGE leaves. I am going to have to find out how to overwinter everything.
This is the first year in many for the EE. They took a long time to come up, but they are getting big. Love them. The Caladium took quite a while also but are giving a nice showing now.

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I started the EE in pots when they first came to Walmart this year. Little water but they were in a west facing window and 2nd story bedroom where the door stays closed. They had warmth and lots of sun. That gave them a major head start on growing. The then planted them up when it was warm enought not to frost every night. I would bring them inside on older nights until May arrived and they were safe outside.

Kathy

I'm going to have to try that next year!

Me too.

I like to keep aroids in containers as they need a lot more water than many other plants.