Regretably Elephant Ears are somewhat out of fashion. One of the reasons for that is that they were misused in the past as stopgaps for `difficult` spots in the garden where nothing else would grow. It is true they Elephant Ears are easy, frugal and longliving plants, but you can`t expect them to show all their beauty at places where they struggle for survival. Full shade and dry soil is a bad combination for them. They do much better in light shade with a soil that keeps some moisture. Here they will flower abundandly in spring and show their attractively coloured foliage in winter. Once establishes they need little care afterwards. 

During the last few year we were given several Bergenias without known name. They were once common in the farmhouse gardens in our region and they often survived their previous owners for decades. Many of them may be old cultivars, but the names are forgotten. We took them all and we offer them here in a mixture.