Elephant ears and canna lilies add a great tropical look to the garden with their broad and sometimes bright leaves, but Kansas winters are generally a little too much for them. Instead of leaving ...

“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let ...

I never used to bother with digging and storing summer-blooming bulbs, such as dahlias, gladiolus, elephant ears, and more. I thought it was too much work. But last fall I was in a friend’s garden and ...

As you look at the beautiful plants that have grown from bulbs you planted last spring, it's hard to let the cold weather destroy them. I actually enjoy digging my bulbs and storing them for next ...

Q: I have additional questions about elephant ears and wintering them. You said to dig them up and store them. My question is, do you remove all the dirt or leave some on? And then where is an ...

Q: The elephant ears have been frozen, and I have trimmed them back. Should I dig them up and store in a cool place? — D.P., Conroe A: If you have the commonly seen elephant ears, Colocasia esculenta, ...

Every year I say I’m not going to plant anything that has to be dug in the fall but I really can’t resist some of my favorites like cannas or elephant ears. My grandma always had these huge, ...

We're getting close to the end of the line for optimal planting of landscape plants this season. Try to get those last perennials, trees, shrubs, and evergreens in the ground by the end of October.

Q. This past year was my first time planting and growing elephant ears; I didn’t know I was supposed to pull them out of the ground for the winter! I pulled the dead stalks from them and I thought ...

The David Austin roses are enclosed in their chicken wire fence, ready for winter’s deep freeze and a swaddling blanket of chopped leaves when the ground hardens. Fences have been cleared of annual ...