This has been a banner year for tropical-plant nuts like me as Regal Shields, Borneo Giant and Portora (just to name a few) started showing up in area garden centers. These are just a few of the ...

No matter where you go this summer, the tropical look will be hot, and one of the key ingredients to this Caribbean style garden is the elephant ear, the drama queen of the landscape. With leaves that ...

Jamestown resident Ingrid Grunert managed to grow a giant elephant ear plant with a leaf that was estimated to be at least 3 feet long. She received the plant eight years ago from a friend and has ...

KEARNEY — To the casual passerby, the landscape surrounding the Brenda and Mike Shinn home in north-central Kearney is festooned with hundreds of beautiful flowers and blooming plants. You have to ...

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 in a ...

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One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The elephant ear ...

When elephant ear plants are mentioned, I picture immense species such as giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizas), which grows 15 feet tall, or the 4-foot dasheen (Colocasia esculenta), widely naturalized ...

When push comes to shove, the food is the number one reason many people head to the fair. Offering giant elephant ears, footlong corn dogs, and even those barbecued meat parfaits, these annual events ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) -The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden added a bonus feature to the new Harry and Linda Fath Elephant Trek. When guests enter the elephant trek through the Komminsk Family Asian ...