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.

Q. What is the best way to overwinter elephant ears? In an unheated attached garage with plenty of light? And what happens when they flower, as a few of my really big ones are doing now — is … ...

Q. This past year was my first time planting and growing elephant ears; I didn’t know I was supposed to pull them out of the ground for the winter! I pulled the dead stalks from them and I th… ...

In the Mid-Atlantic, elephant ears should be dug before the first frost of fall and stored indoors, dormant, over winter for planting out the following May.

Alocasia grows from rhizomes, so the easiest way to propagate Elephant Ears is through division rather than taking cuttings. It is also much quicker than waiting for cuttings to root – it's instant.

My elephant ears have produced at least two blooms in recent weeks. I wasn't aware that elephant ears would bloom until these appeared (a nice surprise!).