Do you have Elephant's Ears?

Costa Rica is the source of these Colocasia or Elephant's Ears tubers, reassuringly labelled as from a sustainable source. This will be my second attempt at growing them, last years tubers which were half the size and twice the price of these specimens simply rotted in their pots. Even amongst the consignment I selected these two bulbs from there was evidence of mould on some of the tubers.

Planted out of the wind the Elephant's Ears should provide an exotic keynote in this years display. I would like to have a tropical garden but gardening for us, both in cool and windy north eastern England and hot and even more windy north east Spain, means that large leaved plants can be something of a liability. So we will try to create a corner of the garden where our more exotic plants can flourish.