Moonlight Caladium Indoors

Indoors or out caladiums are a seasonal plant with foliage in the summer and a rest period in the autumn or winter.

Moonlight caladium indoors. You can plant them under a tree and they will do well. Its relatively coarse texture stands it apart from other indoor plants with finer foliage. Humidity is crucial to caladium houseplant care as the tubers are native to south american tropical forests and produce seasonal foliage during the rainy warm season. It can be used either as filler or as a thriller in the spiller thriller filler container combination depending on the height and form of the other plants used in the container planting.

This is a dense herbaceous houseplant with a mounded form. Tubers of mature caladium can be divided. How to care for caladium indoors. Midday sun will scorch your caladiums so whether indoors or out look for a northern or eastern exposure and partial to full shade.

Some caladium varieties can tolerate sun but moonlight loves the shade. If you are located in zones 4 9 you can easily start your caladiums indoors at 70 before moving them outside as they do not like cold soil. The flowers are not ornamentally significant. Indoor caladium plants require a medium light area with protection from midday sun which will scorch the leaves.

For outdoor planting don t put caladium in a spot that puddles after rain. You also can lift bulbs in fall to over winter indoors and replant in the spring. The moonlight caladium prefers a little morning sun with shade in the afternoon. A northern or eastern window is usually the best exposure.

Make sure that each new tuber section has at least one growing site.