Heart to Heart® Scarlet Flame Caladium | Proven Winners®

Name: Heart to Heart® Scarlet Flame Caladium | Proven Winners®
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Heart to Heart® Scarlet Flame Caladium | Proven Winners®

It is not recommended that you plant/place your caladiums outdoors until your unique nighttime temperatures consistently stay at or above 65° F.

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Features

Characteristics

Plant Needs

Scarlet Flame is a strap leaf caladium variety with a leaf pattern similar to the classic variety Lance Whorton. However, unlike Lance Whorton, Scarlet Flame is fast growing and has great full mounding plant habit. Scarlet Flame is super in small and larger pots and makes a very nice full hanging basket. In combination patio planters or landscape Scarlet Flame is useful as a border plant and will tolerate full sun.

Characteristics

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Medium

Garden Height:

15 - 20 Inches

Spacing:

8 - 10 Inches

Spread:

8 - 10 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Green, Pink, Red, White

Foliage Shade:

Red

Habit:

Upright

Container Role:

Thriller

Resists:

Deer

Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Full Shade (up to 4 hours), Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Sun or Shade

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

10a, 10b, 11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Uses:

Border Plant, Container, Landscape, Mass Planting

Caladiums can be an irritant if ingested. The ASPCA has more information on which plants may be harmful.

See our complete guide to caladium care.

Indoors:

Caladiums can be a very nice windowsill or sunroom plant and for much of the United States and certainly in Canada this might be the best use for Caladiums. Since they are tropical they need to have warmth and humidity, try to always keep the temperatures above 65 F for best growth and leaf size, and a pebble tray or frequent misting can help to keep humidity up around your plants. If you live in a northern climate, be careful not to plant too early in spring as temperatures below 50F will chill and stunt plants, normal indoor temperatures should be fine and winter heaters usually dry things out a bit too much. So this can be a good guide for when to grow these Caladiums, when you turn the heater off for the summer.

Plant tubers pointed end facing upwards, so the tuber is about 2” below the soil level, the roots form on the top of the tuber , so you need to plant them deep enough that roots have room to grow, but not too deep because it delays new leaves and weakens the plant. If your plants are already growing in pots when you purchase them, plant them about ½” deeper when you transplant them to make sure the tubers have room to keep growing.

Caladiums do not need a lot of fertilizer, about ¼ of what most folks feed their flowering annuals, and too much fertilizer can burn the leaves especially the white portions of the leaf. So just fertilize with ¼ the strength what you normally do for your flowers and apply weekly or every other week.

Keep plants in a sunny to partly sunny location and avoid burning hot southern exposures especially at higher altitudes.

Keep soil in your pots moist at all times, wilting will cause leaves to yellow and drop, so just check to make they do not dry out!

Outdoors:

Since Caladiums prefer heat and humidity and do not tolerate cold, soggy soils, for most gardeners who live in the north will have best results in containers, as the soil in pots or planters warms up faster and has better drainage so plants will not become soggy. Remember for best growth always keep the temperatures above 65 F.

A ¼ - ½ strength fertilizing every week or every other week is fine throughout the season, too strong a fertilizer can burn leaves, and since the leaves last all season you want to keep them looking fresh. Caladiums like to be moist at all times so avoid allowing them to dry out as it also causes leaves to yellow and drop.

Features

Scarlet Flame is a strap leaf caladium variety with a leaf pattern similar to the classic variety Lance Whorton. However, unlike Lance Whorton, Scarlet Flame is fast growing and has great full mounding plant habit. Scarlet Flame is super in small and larger pots and makes a very nice full hanging basket. In combination patio planters or landscape Scarlet Flame is useful as a border plant and will tolerate full sun.

Characteristics

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Medium

Garden Height:

15 - 20 Inches

Spacing:

8 - 10 Inches

Spread:

8 - 10 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Green, Pink, Red, White

Foliage Shade:

Red

Habit:

Upright

Container Role:

Thriller

Resists:

Deer

Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Full Shade (up to 4 hours), Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Sun or Shade

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

10a, 10b, 11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Uses:

Border Plant, Container, Landscape, Mass Planting

Caladiums can be an irritant if ingested. The ASPCA has more information on which plants may be harmful.

See our complete guide to caladium care.

Indoors:

Caladiums can be a very nice windowsill or sunroom plant and for much of the United States and certainly in Canada this might be the best use for Caladiums. Since they are tropical they need to have warmth and humidity, try to always keep the temperatures above 65 F for best growth and leaf size, and a pebble tray or frequent misting can help to keep humidity up around your plants. If you live in a northern climate, be careful not to plant too early in spring as temperatures below 50F will chill and stunt plants, normal indoor temperatures should be fine and winter heaters usually dry things out a bit too much. So this can be a good guide for when to grow these Caladiums, when you turn the heater off for the summer.

Plant tubers pointed end facing upwards, so the tuber is about 2” below the soil level, the roots form on the top of the tuber , so you need to plant them deep enough that roots have room to grow, but not too deep because it delays new leaves and weakens the plant. If your plants are already growing in pots when you purchase them, plant them about ½” deeper when you transplant them to make sure the tubers have room to keep growing.

Caladiums do not need a lot of fertilizer, about ¼ of what most folks feed their flowering annuals, and too much fertilizer can burn the leaves especially the white portions of the leaf. So just fertilize with ¼ the strength what you normally do for your flowers and apply weekly or every other week.

Keep plants in a sunny to partly sunny location and avoid burning hot southern exposures especially at higher altitudes.

Keep soil in your pots moist at all times, wilting will cause leaves to yellow and drop, so just check to make they do not dry out!

Outdoors:

Since Caladiums prefer heat and humidity and do not tolerate cold, soggy soils, for most gardeners who live in the north will have best results in containers, as the soil in pots or planters warms up faster and has better drainage so plants will not become soggy. Remember for best growth always keep the temperatures above 65 F.

A ¼ - ½ strength fertilizing every week or every other week is fine throughout the season, too strong a fertilizer can burn leaves, and since the leaves last all season you want to keep them looking fresh. Caladiums like to be moist at all times so avoid allowing them to dry out as it also causes leaves to yellow and drop.