I live in new york and i want to plalnt elephant ears in my garden will they survive the winter??

They will die back (not die) when it's freezing temps. Cut off the dead parts of the plant %26amp; cover them with at least 2 inches of mulch or a thick blanket of leaves. They will come back during Spring.

I live in new york and i want to plalnt elephant ears in my garden will they survive the winter??
I hope your elephant ears are bountiful!


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Reply:all depends on which kind of elephant.some of them are endangered you know
Reply:No, you should take them inside. I would plant them in a container not in the garden soil so you can move them indoors to winter over. I have 2 one in a pot and one in the ground. The one in the ground suffered severe damage in zone 9 where I live when we had a week of hard freeze last winter. I'm still not sure whether it is a total gonner or if it has a chance, but it is still looking pretty dead this late in the season.
Reply:No they will not unless the bed is heated via underground piping!
Reply:I think they would if once they die back after first frost you cover them with a foot or so of leaves. Take them off a week or two after last frost. Despite what I've read, they need lots of water. We had some growing in an area of our yard that stayed wet and they grew wonderfully. We had to move them to put in a drainage system as the water was getting under our house, and the place we moved them to was drier and they haven't done well at all.
Reply:No.





But you can dig them up and keep them in a dry cool place until planting time next summer when the nights get warm.





We throw them away and buy fresh.
Reply:I've been able to keep three alive for three years now. I live in Z4 N Dakota so I cheated a little. I buried a gallon jar of water with a 50W aquarium heater and planted three bulbs next to the jar. In the winter I cover them with a thick layer of straw. The result is a six foot bush with four foot leaves. Compared to those bulbs I treat as annuals which never get more than waist high with two foot leaves. It amazes the locals who think my thumb is greener than it really is, aren't science fair projects great fun ? RScott