Elephant Ears are some of the very best tropical plants for growing in containers and in the garden that will convert your space into an exotic locale. In this video I go through the basic care ...

Elephant ears are sold as small plants in early summer or as completely bare-root bulbs without leaves in the early spring. The bulbs contain all the plant’s energy, ...

Gardeners across the South have long planted a group of large-foliage plants in their gardens with the common name of elephant ear. These distinctive plants can add a dramatic tropical statement ...

They're no longer commonplace or just ordinary green. Elephant ears are becoming the drama queens in our tropical gardens. Many Houstonians know these as the enormous leaves of Colocasia esculenta ...

Elephant ears produce surprise blooms. Houston Chronicle Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo. ... The flower is technically a spath, a bract (modified leaf) enclosing a spadix, a fleshy spike of tiny flowers.

Q. This past year was my first time planting and growing elephant ears; I didn’t know I was supposed to pull them out of the ground for the winter! I pulled the dead stalks from them and I th… ...

The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin - an icon of the Ice Age - including about its fluffy hair, small ears, cold tolerance ...