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Re: [SG] Questions about caladiums

Tam and Helen, I don't grow caladiums but have a friend who does and hers
make quite a show in a very dark area in her yard. Her trick is simply to
buy new bulbs each year. You can also store the old ones and sometimes
they turn out to be viable too, so you get a bonus. I think my friend
stores them in their pots in the basement, just as you would a dormant
amaryllis. Give the pots a little H20 once in a while so they don't
completely dry out. She commented to me that it takes a LONG time in
spring before they break dormancy and they don't actively start growing
until it gets HOT. Many times she has thought hers were goners and they
surprised her. She's on vacation now, but I'll have her confirm this info
when she gets back and tell me what % of the time her old bulbs have
survived a winter.

Re caladium aesthetics, I think they look best if you have a real mass of
them in as many colors as you can, together. They don't seem to look good
with other plants, at least I don't have the knack of mixing them with
other things.  Does anyone else know how to do this?

I know nothing about oxalis but several colleagues in my office have grown
them for years in pots on their windowsills. They never went outside, and
flowered occasionally. The oxalis, I mean. To me they look too much like
the weedy oxalis that I'm constantly pulling up in my yard.

Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Tamara Milostan wrote:

> HElen - I'm in Michigan zone 5/6. I left my oxalis in the ground and it
> did not survive even the mild winter we had this past year. I also tried
> to store caladiums like I store tuberous begonias  in a cellar and that
> didn't work -so
> I'd be interested if anyone has suggestions on how to store these.Tamara
>
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