Caladium in flower

The leaves are stunning, hard for the poor flower to compete. I would love to be able to grow these here:-)

I know that they have been grown in cold climates - but treated as an annual or as a tender perennial and dug up and stored over the winter or grown in pots and overwintered indoors. I'm not sure that they would flower much though.

I'll google them Bernieh, maybe give it a go the different leaf colours are lovely. I wonder if they can be a houseplant in the winter or do the leaves vanish?

They go dormant over here in the winter when growing in the ground - I'm pretty sure that would be the case in your climate as well - even in pots. The choice of leaf colour is almost endless now - so many great new hybrids.

I'm going to google right now:-)

Looks like they're just houseplants here called angel wings:-(

Have heard them called that - sounds like that might be them. Wonder if the pots could go outdoors in the shade during your summer?

Beautiful

Maybe I could put a question on here in case anyone has tried it, they would brighten any shade:-)

Thanks for the info Bernieh, i was wondering if we could grow them in pots over here then put in greenhouse over winter.

Clarice - looked it up on 'What else?' but there doesn't seem to be anybody else growing it amongst the GOY members over there.

I have however looked up growing caladiums in cold climates and many sites state that it can be done - by bringing in the pots for overwintering inside the house or in a greenhouse. They will go into dormancy.
Lots of sites don't recommend actually planting them and then digging up the tubers unless they can be kept at 70 degrees F.

Clarice and Bernieh thats because we have tired looking for a seller who sells these in uk over the net, we can't find any only usa etc no uk sellers. I think it was Bamboo also my self looked and could nt find any here.

I remember seeing 'angel wings' in garden centres a few years ago, I'll keep looking:-)

Thank you Bornagain

Morgana where is the witch?

Lol its gone to meet the grim reaper the bat, the draculars bride will be back before All Hallows eve.

:-)

Bernieh:

It's amazing that Caladium can grow with so much
white in its leaves. I guess it has just enough green
and red in it to photosythesize. Pretty amazing!

Yes I agree - this caladium amazed me the first time I saw the new leaves - the green does come out a lot more as the leaves mature ... but I find that after the dormant period during winter that first new growth is this amazing white!

Bernieh:

Do you know which variety of Caladium this is?

No sorry Andy - had this one a long time and back then I never used to take any notice of the names on the labels.

Bernieh:

Thanks! I've seen some white varieties
for sale here...however, not as white
as your though.