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Bye Bye Elephant Ears! See You Next Spring!

PalmTreeDude
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Just cut down my elephant ears after a few  frosts, only the leaves were damaged, nothing else, but I felt like getting it over with. They come back up in the spring. Here are some pictures, I like the one where you can see the new leaf coming up through the older ones. 

 

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    You’ve done a good job of protecting them PTD. This year I dug some of my more tender ones up and trying to overwinter them as house plants. Will see how that works. Low so far has been 48F but will go down to upper 30’s later this week. So far very mild fall. 

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    They are a LOT tougher than you think. They also get big, and spread like depravity.

    Imagine the Incredible Hulk with the reproductive capacity of rabbits.

    incredible hulk: Three-dimensional painting

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    Dave most of them are totally hardy, but the tender ones like Alocsia “amazonica” will rot in cool soil. Yeah the hardy ones do multiply fast. LOL! 

     

     

     

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    On 11/14/2016, 3:08:36, DoomsDave said:

    They are a LOT tougher than you think. They also get big, and spread like depravity.

    Imagine the Incredible Hulk with the reproductive capacity of rabbits.

    incredible hulk: Three-dimensional painting

    Oh my... Uhh.

    Haha! 

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