For those below zone 8, your bulbs will need more help. Read more: 10 Tips For Easily Repotting Your Favorite Plants In places that experience winter frosts, elephant ear bulbs must be dug up and ...

In this week's episode of Ask Grumpy, one reader struggles with their summer hydrangeas. Plus, Grumpy’s plant of the week.

The Alocasia plant, also known as elephant ... zones 10-11 and recommend digging and storing the bulbs inside in winter. I don't agree at all. They are much tougher than that. The Colocasia ...

Q: I was surprised to see you say elephant ears aren’t hardy ... similar tall stems (up to 5 feet), and hollow. The flowers are purple and resemble thistles. Plants produce annoying burrs ...

These are just a few of the elephant ears that lured ... macrorrhiza and is cold hardy to zone 7b. Unbelievably, it produces ears or leaves that will reach 5 feet in width with a plant 7 to ...

To ensure hardiness, digging and storing the bulbs after a frost is advisable. (Arkansas is in zones 6-8.) No elephant ear is evergreen. If left outside, they will die back after a killing frost.

Q. We have over a dozen elephant ear plants that are about 10 years old. Upcoming construction will require us to relocate these plants to another area in our backyard. What is the best way to dig ...

My time in the Windy City reminded me of one of Orange County’s best, but most underused, summer plants: elephant ears. At The Chicago Botanic Garden, Lincoln Park and Garfield Park ...

At times, Houseplants 101 turns its eye on plants that are more well-known for growing outdoors than indoors. One example is caladium, or elephant ear plants ... hardy in USDA zones 10-11 ...

Elephant ears can be planted as soon as all danger of frost is gone, and the soil temperature is above 45 degrees. You are good to go. - Carole- Johnson County Extension Master Gardener Cindy ...

Photo by Jess Mancini From left, Brad and Dawn Senne pose with the elephant ears in front of their residence on Dutch Ridge Road. The bulbs were from an original three he obtained eight years ago ...