It’s tricky to care for, so why is the alocasia having a moment?
ou will often find me enthusing about stunning, easy-maintenance plants that I can’t believe aren’t more popular. However, the irony is that many of the houseplants that have most captured the imagination of home growers recently have been the opposite: species that demand conditions which are incredibly difficult to replicate in the average living room. The ones I am receiving the most questions about at the moment are some of the trickiest of all, Alocasias.
I suspect that the passion for them is precisely because of just how tricky they are to keep happy – we gardeners love a challenge. So, if you are one of the poor souls who have succumbed to their charms only to see them suffer this winter, here are some quick tips that might help get you out of a spot of horticultural bother.
In fact, collectors will often pick up any flat-pack display cabinet with glass doors and fit standard, energy-efficient LED lights of the sort that you would normally have beneath kitchen cabinets. This creates the warm and stable environment these plants crave. These lamps also provide the “Goldilocks” light level, which is not intense enough to burn leaves, yet just about intense enough to prevent leaves from elongating and snapping in winter gloom.
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