Ultimate Tropical

Does your garden get a little tired by mid-summer? Especially this year when we're all growing vegetables, gaps appear in the garden about this time if your broccoli and cauliflower bolted as mine did...or  unless you've gone a bit overboard on squashes and pumpkins (mine are eating the garden as I write this....). Perhaps it's time to fill in with some show-stopping exotica.

There's a flashy new elephant ear on the market which strikes me as the ultimate tropical - gargantuan leaves with bold variegation in very cool chartreuse and darkest purple. Even its stems are striking with rattesnake-like striping.  Colocasia 'Mojito' is a marketer's delight in looks and name, but that doesn't mean it might not be just the thing for a garden focal point from late summer until frost.

This flashy new exotic is grown by Agristarts and released onto the market by Hort Couture as part of their Tres Chic Tropicals. Photo courtesy of Hort Couture.

 
 
 

Comments

[Jim Monroe]

Thanks for featuring Mojito. It is one of those plants that will be a classic. Mojito is clumping and quite winter hardy as well. It is lovely! Maybe Bayview Farms on Whitby Island will have this for your garden next Spring.

Best regards,

Jim Monroe
CEO
Hort Couture

[DennisC]

Mojito is a great cultivar. There is an interesting article on Colocasia at http://www.colocasiaelephantear.com/ . It mentions Mojito as well as dozens of other cultivars.

[Brian Tapley]

Colocasia 'Mojito
My wife has/had one of these. Very nice looking but she would like to know more about it's life cycle (especially if growing indoors) and the best way to care for it. What to expect as far as size and longevity.
All this kind of stuff.
If anybody out there has info like this that they wish to share email her at btapley@vianet.ca and put CTPLANT in the subject line. thanks.