Imagine a plant so unusual and beautiful in your landscape you stare hypnotically at it every day. Go further and say, a 100 days. That is precisely how I feel about Heart to Heart Burning Heart caladium, and the reason is this: It simply can’t be that color.
In May, I wrote about Using Heart to Heart caladiums to create the unexpected in the landscape. My son, James, used Heart to Heart Burning Heart in a project, and I was shocked that I not only had never heard of this variety, but even more so, that he didn’t share some with Dad.
The old garden guy was able to locate his own, however, and though the summer hot misery index was off the chart, Burning Heart created some ecstatic plant bliss that pulled me through the heat. I shot a picture one night about 8:30 and sent it off to Dr. Allen Owings, retired Professor Emeritus with the LSUAgCenter and now horticulturist at Clegg’s Nursery.
