Escallonia Lades PP 23984 Deparia Colocasia 'Coal Miner' looks like

Colocasia 'Coal Miner' looks like a larger version of Colocasia 'Illustris' except for emerging 2 months earlier (late March in NC)

The trifoliate (3-lobed) leaves

Each vigorous growing clump of wide green foliage reaches 18" tall x 2' wide

Our 2017 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction has thrived at JLBG in both moist bogs

but it seeds in place

Escallonia Lades PP 23984 Deparia Colocasia 'Coal Miner' looks likeEscallonia 'Lades' is the latest breeding effort to create more winter hardy, disease resistant escallonias. Escallonias, which are mostly evergreen shrubs that hail from Central and South American typically fail to thrive in our climate, so we were excited of hear of this new selection by nurseryman Ludovic Ladan of France. This new selection has already been awarded the prestigous RHS Award of Garden Merit. It's still pretty new, but we're promised