Angel Wings is a stunning foliage plant that delivers bold, tropical drama to shaded garden spots and containers. Grown for its striking arrowhead-shaped leaves mottled and blotched with pink, red, white, or combinations of these colors, this Caladium bicolor cultivar thrives in partial shade to bright shade where other plants struggle. Hardy in zones 9-10 (though tubers can be started indoors and grown as annuals elsewhere), it reaches 12-30 inches tall and wide, making it a statement plant without demanding direct sun like many colorful plants do.
18
Partial Shade
Moderate
9-10
30in H x 30in W
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High
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The foliage is the entire point here, and it delivers in spades. Arrowhead-shaped leaves stretch up to 1.5 feet long, their bold mottling and distinctively colored veins creating a living art installation in the garden. Unlike many tropical plants, Angel Wings actually prefers shade and even tolerates heavy shade, which opens up possibilities for brightening dim corners that seem impossible to garden in. The leaves are delicate and somewhat fragile, which requires gentle handling and protection from wind, but that very delicacy is part of their otherworldly charm.
Angel Wings is grown as a specimen plant or in containers on patios and porches, where its colorful foliage can be admired up close. In zones 9-10, tubers can remain in the ground year-round for a permanent landscape presence, though in colder regions gardeners treat it as a seasonal annual, digging and overwintering tubers indoors for replanting the following spring. It excels in containers filled with rich, organically amended soil, allowing gardeners to move the plant to the brightest shade available and bring it inside before frost threatens.
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Start tubers indoors in early spring in a warm location. Provide moist, fertile, organically rich soil and bright, indirect light. Transplant seedlings outdoors after the threat of frost has passed.
Move young plants outdoors after all danger of frost has passed. Plant in rich, well-drained, fertile soil or in large containers. Space plants 18 inches apart. Choose a location in partial shade or filtered sun to prevent leaf scorch.
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