You can also grow these plants in containers inside. Similar to other tuber plants, like dahlias, elephant ears need a large container (about 1 gallon) to grow if you decide to start them indoors.

To grow elephant ears in pots as patio plants, use the largest pots that are practical to keep in scale with the huge leaves because large-volume containers are easier to keep moist.

Alocasia cucullata, Chinese taro or Chinese ape. This type of elephant ear is a slow-growing, clumping evergreen plant reaching up to 2 ft. high and makes for an excellent indoor container plant.

Elephant Ears are a Prismatic seed that was introduced to Grow a Garden on June 21, 2025, as part of the Summer Update.

How to store elephant ears (the easier way) If space isn’t an issue, I recommend doing a little less work and keeping these elephant ears asleep in containers filled with soil during the winter.

My elephant's-ear bulbs stay in the ground all year. Wait until the long-range forecast looks dry before planting. Our backyard is visible to our neighbors, who have a raised patio that allows ...

Surprisingly cold hardy for a plant with Tropical Asian ancestry, ‘Boa,’ like most elephant ears, grows rapidly on organically enriched sites that are kept moist.

This is a fast-growing plant, reaching its full height (4 to 6 feet) in a single growing season. Stingray alocasia makes an excellent container plant.

Big leafy elephant ears excel as oversized-exclamations in garden beds or large containers, sometimes both simultaneously. For drama, place huge pots of elephant ears right into the garden where th… ...

They're no longer commonplace or just ordinary green. Elephant ears are becoming the drama queens in our tropical gardens.