Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta) Elephant Ear

Fancy having a cuppa tea? This magnificent Elephant Ear will lend a lush, tropical look to any pond or water feature with their dark green up-turned leaves resembling cups, they easily hold small volumes of water or your favourite beverage… The leaves contrasts beautifully with the dark purplish-black stems which can grow up to 1,5 m tall. Grows best in full sun to part shade in moist soil or shallow water to 15 cm deep. Can also be grown under normal garden conditions provided ample irrigation is provided. Elephant Ears relish fertiliser and will reward you gloriously for feeding them regularly. Like most elephant Ears, Tea Cups is frost sensitive, but will resprout from their tubers in all but the coldest areas

Free State Stockists

Alma Kwekery – Welkom

Gauteng Stockists

Colourful Splendour
Garden World
Keith Kirsten Waterfall Wilds
Lifestyle Home Garden
Nicolas Plants
Plant Paradise
Plant Ranch Centurion
Plant Ranch Germiston
Safari Tuinsentrum
Schafflers Nursery

Mpumalanga Stockists

Fever Tree Nursery
Garden Pavilion – Montana
Ninfa Tuinsentrum

North West Stockists

Countryside Kwekery
Sittig’s Nursery

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