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Tropicalismo Shade Bulb Collection

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ZONES  3-10 | Good to grow! Zone
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Our Tropicalismo Shade Bulb Collection will transform your garden with rich, textural foliage. Caladiums and Elephant Ears grow quickly in warm weather to create lush layers of leaves. Plant this easy-to-grow collection as a backdrop for bright flowers, or create a living wall that will transport you to the tropics. These plants make an excellent grouping for containers on patios, porches, and balconies. With their brilliant colors and fascinating patterned leaves, Caladiums and Elephant Ears have become favorites for shaded areas. Collection of 8 bulbs.

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Description

Our Tropicalismo Shade Bulb Collection will add layers of lush foliage to your gardens or containers for a modern, dramatic landscape. Our bulb collections will easily give you beautiful, harmonious results in garden beds container plantings. We plan, you plant: each collection is curated by our gardening experts, featuring groupings with complementary colors, heights, and bloom times. Elephant Ears are hardy in zones 8-10, and Caladiums are hardy in zones 9-10. In cooler zones, these bulbs can be dug after frost comes, stored over winter, then re-planted the following spring; if planted in containers, store bulbs in a frost-free zone over the winter.

Our Tropicalismo Shade Bulb Collection covers approximately 35 sq ft when planted together, and includes 8 bulbs:

'June Bride' Caladium – Bag of 3 Bulbs
Elephant Ear – Bag of 1 bulb
'Royal Hawaiian® Diamond Head' Elephant Ear – Bag of 1 bulb
'Candidum' Caladium – Bag of 3 Bulbs

*Plants are subject to change due to availability. If we make substitutions, we feature plants with similar attributes suitable to the collection design.

Planting & Care

Great color in the shade: Growing Caladiums: Caladiums are beautiful natives of the South American Rain Forests. With their brilliant colors in fascinating designs, and large heart-shaped leaves, they’ve become landscape favorites, especially since they are perfect for shaded areas. They're very easy to grow, but you must take care and remember that they are tropical. This means you can't plant your tubers until the ground has warmed up in spring. In the south, that means May. In the midwest and north, it means from mid-May until mid-June. Planting in cold soil will stunt your Caladiums, and you don't want to do that.

Great for pots. The cold-sensitivity of Caladiums is why they've become big favorites for pots, baskets, and patio planters. If you start them indoors, you can simply put the pots outside once your weather is warm. And in fall, the pots make everything simple. Once your first cold snap wilts the leaves in fall, simply bring you pots inside, let the tops die down, and keep them as they are (in a non-freezing area) until spring, and put them out again. This is how many northern gardeners grow these beauties.

Spectacular Ground Cover: Many gardeners use these colorful plants as a ground cover for shady areas. (Who says you can't have great color in the shade!) Caladiums around trees or in other shady areas have long been beautiful features of southern gardens, but this technique can work anywhere, as long as you don't put out your plants until your soil is good and warm.

Starting your tubers: Plant your tubers with the 'eyes' upward--one tuber to a 4" pot, and 3 tubers in a gallon-size. Use about 1 1/2" of soil over the tubers. Keep them evenly moist and very warm after planting. (Like amaryllis in fall, bottom heat helps sprout these tropical tubers...if you have a warm radiator, try putting your pots there until they're well-sprouted.) Once they're up, liquid fertilizer helps; they respond much like African violets and tuberous begonias to regular feedings.

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Shipping

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As soon as your order is placed you will receive a confirmation email. You will receive a second email the day your order ships telling you how it has been sent. Some perennials are shipped as potted plants, some as perennial roots packed in peat.  The ‘Plant Information’ section describes how that item will ship. All perennials and fall-planted bulbs are packaged to withstand shipping and are fully-guaranteed. Please open upon receipt and follow the instructions included.

Perennials and fall-planted bulbs are shipped at the proper planting time for your Growing Zone. Perennial and fall-planted bulb orders will arrive separately from seeds. If your order requires more than one shipment and all items are shipping to the same address, there is no additional shipping charge. See our shipping information page for approximate ship dates and more detailed information. If you have any questions, please call Customer Service at (802) 227-7200 or contact us by email or chat.

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Half Sun / Half Shade

Advantages

  • Deer Resistant
  • Easy To Grow
  • Container Planting
  • Rabbit Resistant
  • Mass Plantings

Additional information

Mature Height

Heights vary from 24-60" tall

Soil Type

  • Loamy Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Moist / Wet

Planting Time

  • Spring / Summer

Plant Classification

Blend of Introduced Species & Cultivars

Growing Zones

  • Zone 3
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9
  • Zone 10

Additional Information

Perennial in zones 8-10. Annual in zones 3-7.

Poisonous or Toxic to Animals

Skin and eye irritant. All parts of plant are poisonous if ingested. Toxic to dog and cats.

Neonicotinoid Free

Yes

Ships As

Bulb, Rhizome, Tuber
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