well one row of 5 that i have at this moment but next year they will be comming out of my ears no punn intended.....lol
My Alocasia Pink China
another one
ok this is it
correction Colocasia pink china lol i had just potted up a bunch of alocacias this morning lol sorry
Just curious - what do you do with all of them in the winter ? I love all the tropicals - especially the EE's and the alocasias, but get tired of digging them up every winter.
The Pink China are hardy to zone 6. They are wonderful.
Linda
BackyardOasis forgot to say your Pink China's look great. Mine were looking wonderful until they started blooming. Then for some reason they started looking bad. I did give them a good feeding yesterday hoping they will come around. I don't know since they started blooming that all the nutrients started going to the bloom and made the leaves start dying off or what?
Linda
Very nice- didn't know they were hardy to zone 6!
Looks awesome! But I think you need to get rid of some....lol!
;) Donna
I named pink china about 9 years ago when I got them out of china through a friend. It was collected high on a mountain and I was told their winters were fairly harsh. I grew the plant much like I had grown all my Colocasias and took it inside the first year. To my suprize I had a nice clump regrow from were I had dug it up the year before. I have now had it in the ground 9 year in zone6 Louisville KY. A friend of mine has grown it in zone5 Ohio for over 6 years with mulch. I have some being tested as far north as Canada. I believe it to be hardy to zone 4 to 5 if mulched well and zone 6 it can become a weed. I have grown them to around 6 to 7 feet tall with leaves around 2 to 3 feet tall. It was named pink china due to it coming out of china and having a pink stem and a pink dot in the center of the leaves. I did not plan on calling it this but it was all the information I had at the time to keep it seperated from my other forms. It has been selling well as a partner plant with the Musa Basjoos were people are leaving them both out and mulching them for winter.
Here is my mothers plants in one years time. She was able to grow them very large. I have found that taking off suckers and runners will help produce larger centerpiece plants.
hey all thank you for looking and i have plenty to get rid of in the spring but now im just lettink them grow. i have planted 75 this year and all are puping lol
i will post pictures as the fill out
Your row of them is so pretty, BackyardOasis! I will say your first pic gave me an instant headache. LOL.
Brian, such an interesting background story!
yes he is the one that got me started in them