Caladiums can help jazz up your shady places by adding their colorful leaves.
With all the varieties available, you can get almost any color scheme you want.
Just set your planting container in your watergarden with the holes in the bottom in about ½" of water to soak up the moisture where you want your color, and forget about them. They like their "feet" in the water.
Do not immerse the entire container in the water or the root will rot!
In the fall, long before the first frost, take them in where they won't freeze, and let them dry out and forget about them till spring.
When they show signs of growth and it's after the last frost in the spring, set them out again.
They don't need to be watered during the winter much, or in the summer if the bottoms of the planting containers are in the water that ½" deep.
The Caladiums in this picture are in a stream created to run into the watergarden,
so they help filter the water along with getting a steady supply of nutrients.
Water Garden blooming times
Hardy
Tropical
Lotus
Other Plants
Floating
Plants and Irises Shallow
Water and Bog Plants
Are you frustrated trying to get your watergarden plants to bloom in a shady watergarden? Just want some color?
