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Caladium 'Sweetheart'

Angel Wings

Tender Tuber

£11.99

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The biggest trend in foliage plants this year!

Perfect for a shaded position in your home

Move outdoors in summer for a striking patio plant

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Also known as Angel Wings, this caladium is a striking beauty with delicate colours and detailed foliage. Caladium ‘Sweetheart’ displays delicate pink foliage with rich raspberry-red ribs and veins, edged with a contrasting green shade around the outers of the leaves. No matter where the tropical tender perennial lives, it is bound to turn heads. Perfect for a shaded spot indoors they are lovely in a kitchen or bathroom where they can get the humidity it needs too.

When the summer arrives, they can be moved outside to the patio or even be potted into borders where it will be well shaded. As autumn arrives the foliage will naturally die back, and before the first frost comes move the plant back indoors or move to a warmer spot to protect it, then replant again in the spring. Height 60cm (24”) and spread: 50cm (20”).

Please note: Some houseplants are toxic or harmful to pets if ingested. If you believe your pet has consumed a poisonous plant, then seek veterinary attention immediately. Take a sample of the plant with you.

Plant Size Height Up to 60cm (24in)
Spread Up to 50cm (20in)

Hardiness & Longevity Tender Tuber

Ideal For conservatoryexotic gardengreenhousepatio

Position In sun or semi shadedappled shade

Codes
1 x caladium tuber (KB8738)

Plant Caladium tubers into individual pots at a depth of 5cm (2”), using a good quality compost. Grow them on in warm, frost free conditions with consistent temperatures of 20C (68F). A shaded north facing windowsill is ideal, but protect the delicate foliage from scorching direct sun. When plants are well grown and outdoor temperatures are reliably warm, Caladiums can be moved outdoors to a lightly shaded spot on the patio, or planted into borders in moist, fertile soil. Protect plants from direct sun and drying winds.

Feed and water Caladiums regularly throughout the growing season. In early autumn, well before the first frosts, return plants to their warm position indoors. Alternatively, cut back the old foliage and lift the tubers. Allow them to dry, before storing them in paper bags or trays of loose compost in a frost free position over winter. They can be replanted in the following spring.

Seeds and garden supplies will normally be delivered within the time period stated against each product as detailed above. Plants, bulbs, corms, tubers, shrubs, trees, potatoes, etc. are delivered at the appropriate time for planting or potting on. Delivery times will be stated on the product page above, or in your order acknowledgement page and email.

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Van Meuwen strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. Sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this, so regretfully we are unable to ship live plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3