Variegation on the Green Theme - Part One: Re: Re: I need that Alocasia!

» CarolWallace - Re: Re: I need that Alocasia!

In response to message posted by Marge_Talt:
My Colocasia never gets as huge as the ones at Longwood Gardens - but they usually get to a respectable 5' tall or so. Not this year, It was so late before things warmed up enough for me to get them out of pots and into the ground that they are only about 18" high. No 'Silver Dragon' - if I had one - would only help hide the bare spaces. ;-) I don't have one because it doesn't appear to be hardy here.

I had an 'Excalibur' but it didn't survive the drought.

I won't commit myself to saying 'Nigrescens' is hardy here. I have a very small clumo that has comeback for several years and finally expandedinto a second very small clump. But given that this baby had come back several years, I bought more and planted them out and they all died. But I do have a winderful pot of healthy specimens right now that I am using to create some designs using black. We made a raised bed and filled it with compost - very loose - and I simply bury several pots of plants in differet combinations, photograph them, then redo the mix. Good combos get tucked into containers when I'm done. About the only green I am using is a variegated artemisia which is gold and green splashed. I don't know if you'd count 'Margarita' with its glowing chartruse as a green.

But it sure is great fun to play with foliage color!

-- posted by CarolWallace