As you begin to plan your shade gardens, give some consideration to Caladiums, grown for their large, showy leaves in assorted colors and patter.

Caladium leaves can be heart-shaped or longer like spears, some with fancy ruffled edges. Best of all, they’re ideal in shade gardens, often the most difficult setting for plants to thrive.

If you want to grow caladiums again next year, you can dig up and save your bulbs. You will want to wait until after the first frost, when your caladium leaves begin to yellow and wilt.

Check out Caladiums in your garden centers this spring. They are minimal maintenance but high drama additions to our shady summer gardens! Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County answers home ...

1993 Caladiums as Potted and Landscape Plants. Circular 1060. Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Online at: http ...

Caladium x hortulanum is the botanical name for this tropical foliage plant that thrives in our hot, humid summers. They are equally vigorous planted in the ground, in pots, or in hanging baskets ...

About caladiums. Scientific name: Caladium hortulanum For Northern transplants nostalgic for all the spring loveliness that comes from bulbs — crocuses, tulips, jonquils and the like ...

There are 29 varieties in the Heart to Heart Caladium Collection. Next year in 2024, there will be a new variety as Heart to Heart, Rain or Shine will debut with color that is "indescribable." ...

Caladium are not in the same family with potatoes yet they are loaded with eyes. Each eye has the potential to become a leaf. When you order jumbo-sized bulbs, you are not getting jumbo leaves.

Caladiums grow from tubers, and cultivars range from 1.5 to 3 feet in height. Individual leaves range from 6 to 12 inches in length. These are plants that are small enough to fit into almost any ...

I was reminded of Caladiums upon receiving an email from John Klima, who grows them to perfection in Orange. “Planting time is after the middle of April,” he wrote.

Even though the caladium leaves have been beautiful all summer, it is rarely possible to save the corms and get the same beauty next year. (Walter Reeves for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...