How to store elephant ears (the easier way) If space isn’t an issue, I recommend doing a little less work and keeping these elephant ears asleep in containers filled with soil during the winter.

You can also grow these plants in containers inside. Similar to other tuber plants, like dahlias, elephant ears need a large container (about 1 gallon) to grow if you decide to start them indoors.

Big leafy elephant ears excel as oversized-exclamations in garden beds or large containers, sometimes both simultaneously. For drama, place huge pots of elephant ears right into the garden where th… ...

Elephant ear plants with drooping leaves are likely not getting enough sun, too much or too little water, or not enough fertilizer. Check the plant’s roots to see if they are brown and mushy to ...

These elephant ears are grown in ornamental ponds, fountains and wet containers. Elephant ears are only hardy to zone 9 or to Florida, where they are perennials.

Use elephant ears anywhere you want to make an impact with a striking foliage plant. In a container, they can stand alone as a statement, but placed with other leafy plants, they become essential ...

Lowery recommends growing more tender varieties in containers. These, he says, will rot in cold, wet soil. "Sink the pots in the ground, then pop them in the garage in winter,'' he suggests.

A: The elephant ears we inherited with our house 28 years ago bloom occasionally. These old-fashioned green types, Colocasia esculenta, can be invasive in many warm areas so I remove most of our ...

From black-leaved hybrids to yellow, white or purple variegated plants, to kinds that grow 10 feet tall and feature frilled foliage, once-lowly elephant ears have morphed into landscape standouts.

Tropical plants, like elephant ears, just scream for attention and attract interest in any landscape. Most gardeners love elephant ears because they are easy-to-grow tropical plants that make a ...