Re: Elephant ear
Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
> Dear Margaret
Many thanks for the information - I'll check the supermarket in the
spring.
Here the name "Elephant's ears is the common name of Bergenaria, of
which I'm lucky enough to have a particularly early and tough clone.
It's just the common pink variety but it grows by my front door, under a
North Wall in a bone-dry situation and dust-poor soil, and it thanks me
for this with masses of big pink flowers all through February and the
beginning of March when colour is at a premium. Last year I counted
over two hundred flower heads - a passer-by thought I had a bed of
hyacinths there. I try to put winter flowers in the front garden where
I pass them every day and it cheers up other people as well.
Thanks again for the information
Cliff
> Cliff, it's Colocasia esculenta, or taro. If you have an Asian or Oriental
> grocery store in your vicinity, just buy a taro root and plant that.
> Voila! Elephant ear! One of my friends treats it like an annual, and
> doesn't bother to dig the bulb. A new bulb costs about 50 cents at her
> nearby Asian grocery store. Margaret
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