Texas Gardening: Free Candletree Seeds, 1 by DallasDad

DallasDad wrote:
I made a circular raised bed, about five feet in diameter, and planted eleven of the candletree seedlings. I threw some sun-tolerant caladium bulbs around the perimeter just for fun, and added three infant sprigs of decorative grass. Temps are going to be in the high 80's or low 90's for the next couple of weeks, so I'm hoping to see the candletrees take off.

Although no roots were poking out the bottoms of the four-inch pots I was using to harden off the seedlings, I found when depotting them that there were plenty of good strong roots. Oddly enough, many of them were green rather than white or brown, even down to the tips.

I take photos of all plants on the first of each month, so we'll have a good record of how these things do. While we're waiting for those, here's an elephant ear started indoors in February, moved to the patio about two weeks ago: