How to Use caladium in a Sentence

caladium

noun
  • First, your caladium tubers must be big, fat and healthy to make it through storage.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The caladium is one of the best and most reliable warm season bedding plant for shady areas.
    — NOLA.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The ground is finally warm enough to plant caladium bulbs, for example.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 31 May 2021
  • To keep the foliage in good shape through the summer, make sure caladiums are well watered during hot, dry weather.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 17 June 2017
  • Wax leaf begonias, pentas, caladium and coleus perform well in the shade.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 25 June 2020
  • Plant a caladium in its own container or within the landscape.
    — Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Expect caladiums and some gingers to start to decline and go dormant until spring.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Obtain durable color for summer from bush daisy, caladium coleus, pentas and zinnias.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 May 2017
  • There are more than 40 varieties of caladiums, which are in the jack-in-the pulpit family.
    — Bonnie Gross, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • Plant at least three caladiums together, or, for the most striking effect, in groups of five or seven to create a carpet of color.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 6 July 2025
  • Vincas, caladiums and other sub-tropicals that need warmth go downhill even sooner.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Usually caladiums sprout new leaves March through April from within the ground or containers.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Generally, strapleaf caladiums tolerate more sun; fancy-leaf types want some shade.
    — Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The best selections are available in late winter and early spring, but don’t plant caladiums until May or June, once soils are much warmer.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In the shade consider planting begonias, pentas, caladium and coleus.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Generally speaking, the damage to caladiums (holes) caused by caterpillars is not so bad as to ruin the appearance of a planting.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 17 June 2017
  • Around the end of February or early March is a good time to dig, divide and replant caladiums as the weather becomes more consistently warm.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025
  • In a new caladium series called Heart to Heart, Schmitt said, there are a wide variety of new plants in beautiful colors that are sun and shade tolerant.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Persian shield grows about four to six feet tall and is striking used as a background plant in a shady bed of lilac, white or pink impatiens, white or pink caladiums, ferns, purple heart, peacock ginger and other shade loving plants.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2019
  • Now is a good time to plant warm-season bedding plants, including pentas, begonia, blue daze, coleus, caladium, lantana, torenia and angelonia, that will provide colorful flowers until the end of summer.
    — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Leafy tropicals and other foliage plants including begonias, caladiums, coleus, cannas, ferns, dracaenas and philodendrons can be used for dramatic effect in the shade container.
    — Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 11 May 2018
  • At once vibrant and somber, her compositions celebrate uncommon forms and colors, and brim with striking varieties such as red flowering gum, green-and-pink caladium leaves and Sturt’s desert pea, with its red-and-black podlike flowers.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • Consider growing summer-blooming bulbs, corms, and tubers, including agapanthus, begonias, caladiums, calla lilies, canna lilies, dahlias, daylilies, gladiolus, iris, lilies and watsonias.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Plant summer blooming bulbs including cannas, callas, caladiums, dahlias, gladiolus, lilies, tuberose, tuberous begonia, Nerine, Tigridia pavonia and Watsonia.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Of these, 300 new and beneficial plants were introduced into Florida’s landscape, including palms, caladiums, hybrid amaryllis, hybrid magnolias, camellias and bromeliads.
    — Joy Wallace Dickinson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 May 2018
  • Southern California Plant summer-blooming bulbs, corms, and tubers, including acidanthera, agapanthus, tuberous begonias, caladiums, calla lilies, dahlias, daylilies, gladiolus, iris, ixia, montbretias, tiger flowers, tuberoses, and watsonias.
    — Thad Orr, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018

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