To keep elephant ears alive until spring, decide how you'll protect your plants. You can keep them outdoors, move them inside to keep as houseplants for the winter, or dig up the tubers to ...

elephant ear bulbs must be dug up and properly stored for the winter. Because elephant ears and their bulbs start to decline and may die in the cold, this popular plant needs to be overwintered ...

As long as the roots don’t freeze, they can still be dug up and put to sleep inside until spring. Elephant ears are sold as small plants in early summer or as completely bare-root bulbs without ...

A: Elephant ears are great summer plants ... the iron in the soil is not accessible to the plants and they take up too much calcium. This is chlorosis and is identified by a yellowing between ...

DEAR JESSICA: If I heavily mulch elephant ears bulbs, will they come ... frost turns foliage brown, then cut plants down to 6 inches and dig them up. Rinse the tuber(s) and allow to air dry ...

Anderson said an elephant ear bulb is about the size of a softball; they can be taken up in the fall ... that really is the end of summer,” Anderson said. The plants are not native to the ...

Q. This year I planted elephant-ear bulbs. I placed several in a large planter and most in the ground. The package directions stated that the bulbs need to be dug up every fall and replanted in ...

(Howard Garrett/Special Contributor) Alocasia and Colocasia, better known as elephant ears, are impressive plants with dramatic foliage. The huge leaves can measure up to 2 feet across, and the ...

much like their elephant ear plants, that hobby is still growing strong. “Margaret has always been gardening, and she got me into it,” said Ron. “She grew up gardening.” Growing up in West ...