Final Bloom
This entry was posted on Nov 21 2007
Aside from all of the dying air potato vines, a sure sign of cool weather is the blooming of the elephant ears around the yard. These late blooming perennials, also know as Alocasia Macrorrhiza, are scattered throughout the yard and they often survive the winter fairly well. While the leaves are sensitive to the freezes, the underground bulb is quite hardy and will quickly replace any damaged leaves.
This is the beauty of the house I moved into. It was built in 1962-ish and all of the trees and plants are well-established. These elephant ears crop up everywhere, often in surprising places (like directly underneath the gutter drain – it takes a beating but refuses to die!). They’re just another testament to the unwillingness of nature to give in.
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Congratulations on capturing and describing your latest post The Elephant Ears Blooming. Your photo is well centered and appears framed by the other elements of your complete photo. Kudos to you my Masterful student of the Art of Photography. That is why I gave you 5 stars.
1962′ish, that’s cool. You’re lucky to have an established landscape and cool looking flowers. We couldn’t keep anything alive our first year, lol
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Wow! You still get to see flowers on winter! In Japan, there’s Winter Sakura. There are lots of these in the previous company but they’re still not blooming when I left. I hope I could see Winter Sakura somewhere near… I’m dying to get a picture
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Rolando: I am very lucky to have the landscape, but sometimes things pop up in places you don’t want them to. Nothing a good shovel and rake can’t take care of.
shiera: It’s not quite winter yet, but close. Everything is going dormant now, including my lawn, which means no mowing for at least three months! WOOO!
We like to think we are in control but nature can kick our arses any day of the week. Pretty neat that it can survive underneath a gutter, that’s one tough little plant!
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Petee anyone who owns any type of camera and clicks photos in my book is a student of Life and the enviroment. So carry on Grasshopper. It appears you’ve been able to snatch the pebble from the Master’s Hand. Reference to Kung Fu the TV series from the 70’s. Smile and have a Great Day.
All this time I thought elephant ears were cookies…beautiful plant and nice photo to boot.
AntiBarbie: That plant in particular is not the gutter-survivor, but there’s one nearby that just refuses to die from being pummeled by rainwater.
Joe: Yes! He’s back! Fried dough, actually.
The flower look like something we in Finland decorate our rooms with. I guess it is not warm enough for that type of plant to like it outside here.
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It definitely looks like a hearty plant. It is really neat that you moved into a ready made established landscaped home. The new homes with the builder’s package is so lame and take years to flourish if they don’t die of first.
Nice photo.:)
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Susie: I might grab a few of these next year and see how they do in a vase. They would certainly make the house smell good.
Debo Hobo: You know what’s funny is that this plant is extremely hearty when its warm, but at the sign of cold, it withers up immediately. We’re not talking a few brown spot, we’re talking complete destruction to the ground. Every winter I have to pick up (or mow over) a bunch of dead ginger stalks. But they come right back the next year.