Tropicals & Tender Perennials: heating titanum pots overwinter, 1 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
You would think caladiums would just stay until the first frost, but I bring them in before it gets anywhere below 45 degrees. They die down on their own. Actually, I think they just stop producing foliage. The go into dormancy in the fall. I leave them in the pots during the winter and water lightly. Just about when I think they are totally dead and I see insects in the soil so I think they may have rot, they give up a sprout. Then another and another, and we are on our way. I leave them in my office for the winter, piled up on the floor. As soon as the daytime weather warms to 55 or 60, they go outdoors just during the day. They have also been known to spend some time in the car....

I don't know if you can see it, but in the middle of these Miss Muffets are calla lilies. When I make a gift of them, everyone wants one.