Cinta : I rarely smell my flowers. These species glads ar in a spot where its not possible to lean in to sniff.
It must look great against the big canna leaves.

Here are a few containers from yesterday afternoon.
caladium Carolyn Whorton, Trailing Queen coleus


Caladium Festiva and coleus Purple Duckfoot. I was close to tossing Duckfoot, it was brownish purple until it reallu started to fill out,its still not a fantastic color in sun.




Festiva and noid coleus

Here are a few of my caladiums

Holly I love all of them. Gingerland has always been a favorite.

Caladiums are the new "In" here with that contest in brew.

You should all win. All of yours are picture perfect!

Its going to be a tough contest.

ge1836 said:Cinta : I rarely smell my flowers. These species glads ar in a spot where its not possible to lean in to sniff.
It must look great against the big canna leaves.

The ones I had years ago I had planted around a pond and the fragrance wafted across the pond I did not know they were fragrant so they were the last thing I smelled. They were the last thing I thought of as fragrant. The fragrance was as strong as a oriental lily.

I always plant glads in pots with my tropicals because it adds flowers and the tropicals I grow usually only have pretty leaves. Cannas and Bananas.

Holly love your caladiums. I love pretty foilage.

My caladiums are still tiny babies. Sure hope they grow up to be as beautiful as the above photos are.

I have planted caladium bulbs several times, and had very little luck with them. The squirrels dig them up most of the time, or sometimes if the weather is very hot and dry they just shrivel up. I was surprised to see some caladium leaves pop out of my front planter box as I posted awhile back. I am again surprised to see more and more and more coming up. This has never happened before in my yard -- I am really enjoying it. Wish I had planted more of them!

Yummy Jeanie they are gorgeous. I love your combo. You are getting a flower. Be sure to smell it and report back if you smell a fragrance. I had one in a to my chest level planter at my front door. I smelled something as I was going in the door and it was a flower. It smelled like lemons.

They are beautiful Jeanie, what a wonderful surprise.
I didn't even think about the fact that they would have blooms.

The blooms are odd looking.
Jeanie those are great photos.

I did not know that caladiums would flower - I thought that was just a leaf coming up that hadn't unfolded yet -- nor did I know they had fragrance. Oh goodie goodie

This morning I had caladium blooms - and yes, they do have a lemony fragrance. It looks like there will be several more coming too. Here are the photos:

@foraygardengirl, Nice. You are making me want to get those for my garden. I really like the thought of the lemony fragrance.

I do believe I'll be planting many more of these next year. A little encouragement from a plant goes a long way!

What awesome photos Jeanie.
Wish I could smell it. I will watch mine for blooms.

The deck in August


Paddle plant NOID Coleus

Coleus Purple duckfoot caladium Fiesta












Echiveria pulidonis

WOW!!!!....What great pics.....Lovely, colorful containers.....Anyone tried these??.....I did 10 this year...

They sure do perk up that fence! Very colorful. I haven't tried anything quite like that because it is too hot and too dry for too long in the summer here. I mostly stick to bigger containers.

Your border bed is beautiful too!