Caladium Care Texas

Large plants are exquisite on their own and smaller plants provide an exceptional complement to other plants with color like caladiums.

Caladium care texas. Spray your indoor caladium to imitate the moist air of a greenhouse source. Winter care of caladium bulbs. Caladiums are winter hardy to usda zone 9 meaning that they should be able to survive the winter outdoors. The most important factors in caladium care are moisture and feeding.

Elephant s ear bulbs produce large leafy plants which add a tropical look to a home landscape. Will my caladium bulbs overwinter well in dfw if i just leave them in. Water your caladium often but don t over water it. Elephant s ear planting and care.

Plan to plant caladiums in a dark area that could use some bright foliage under trees along the house or in another shady place. Fertilize your outdoor caladiums once a month. They are at their best in bright indirect light. Can caladiums be planted indoors.

How to plant caladiums. Buy potted caladiums ready to plant or grow them from tubers. Caladiums grow well with ferns mosses and impatiens. Your indoor caladiums only need a liquid fertilizer every couple of weeks.

Most caladium varieties do best in shady moist spots. Caladiums love texas from perryton way up north in the panhandle to brownsville on the southern border with mexico. A north or east window is ideal. They grow well in soil with good drainage and thrive in sun or shade.

Sun or shade humid or dry our low maintenance caladiums thrive and provide colorful foliage all growing season long. In fact watering them on a weekly basis is recommended. While growing caladiums need night temperature in the high 50 s and days around 80 constantly moist soil and fertilize every other week. In usda zones 8 and lower winter care for.

Just after i moved to dfw last month i planted hundreds of caladiums because lowe s was selling them for a penny each one weekend. 64 west avon park fl 33825 toll free. My mother used to grow caladiums in south texas and she never had to dig up the bulbs for winter. Even in these areas though a heavy mulching of 3 inches 7 5 cm is the recommended winter care for caladiums to keep them from dying in the colder temperatures.

Grow caladiums in acidic soil that s moist and well drained. Though they re sometimes called bulbs they are really tubers plant tubers point side up about 1 to 1 1 2 inches deep. Tubers must rest in the winter the same as outdoor caladiums.