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deep purple elephant ears plant Diamond Head Elephant Ear – Plant DetectivesDiamond Head Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta 'Diamond Head') Diamond Head Elephant Ear is a dramatic tropical foliage plant valued for its glossy dark leaves, ruffled texture, and bold warm season presence. Its heart shaped foliage develops rich chocolate, deep purple, to nearly black tones, giving containers, patios, poolside plantings, and moist garden beds strong contrast. This clumping elephant ear brings a polished, reflective look to the
Diamond Head Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta 'Diamond Head')
Diamond Head Elephant Ear is a dramatic tropical foliage plant valued for its glossy dark leaves, ruffled texture, and bold warm-season presence. Its heart-shaped foliage develops rich chocolate, deep purple, to nearly black tones, giving containers, patios, poolside plantings, and moist garden beds strong contrast. This clumping elephant ear brings a polished, reflective look to the landscape without relying on flowers for impact. With warmth, rich soil, steady moisture, and sun to partial shade, Diamond Head Elephant Ear adds depth, texture, and tropical character to indoor and outdoor displays.
Distinctive Features
Diamond Head Elephant Ear produces thick, glossy, heart-shaped leaves with ruffled edges and dark chocolate to purple-black coloring. The foliage often points downward in classic Colocasia fashion, creating a bold, layered look as the plant fills out. It forms a strong clump that can gain impressive size during the growing season when provided with heat, fertility, and consistent moisture. Flowers may appear occasionally as a yellowish-green spathe and spadix, but this plant is grown primarily for its dark foliage, tropical texture, and glossy surface.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in full sun to partial shade, with brighter light helping support darker foliage color when moisture is consistent.
- Soil: Prefers fertile, humusy, organically rich soil that stays consistently moist while still supporting healthy root growth.
- Water: Performs best with regular moisture during active growth and can tolerate moist to wet soil better than many ornamental foliage plants.
- USDA Zones: Hardy outdoors in USDA Zones 7b to 11 in protected conditions, while colder climates should treat it as a seasonal container plant or overwinter the tubers indoors.
- Mature Size: Typically reaches about 3 to 5 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide in favorable outdoor conditions, while container-grown plants may stay smaller.
- Habit: Forms a large upright to spreading clump with broad dark leaves rising from the base on sturdy petioles.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a glossy dark-foliage focal point in large containers, patios, poolside plantings, courtyard beds, tropical-style landscapes, or moist garden areas.
- Container Planting: Grow in a large decorative pot where its dark reflective foliage can provide strong contrast and be moved or protected before cold weather.
- Moist Garden: Plant in consistently moist beds, rain gardens, or pond-edge settings where its love of moisture can support strong growth.
- Tropical Garden: Pair with cannas, bananas, caladiums, gingers, coleus, and chartreuse foliage plants to create a lush warm-season display.
- Mixed Border: Use in large mixed beds where its dark leaves can add depth, contrast, and bold texture behind lower plants.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: Water regularly during active growth to keep the soil consistently moist, especially in containers and hot summer weather.
- Mulching: Apply mulch around outdoor plants to conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and reduce weed competition.
- Fertilizing: Feed during the active growing season with a balanced fertilizer to support large foliage and vigorous growth.
- Wind Protection: Site in a sheltered location because strong wind can tear or damage the large ornamental leaves.
- Overwintering: Lift and store tubers or move containers indoors before frost in climates where the plant is not reliably hardy.
- Leaf Cleanup: Remove yellowing, torn, or frost-damaged leaves as needed to keep the plant looking clean and encourage fresh growth.
Why Choose Diamond Head Elephant Ear?
- Glossy Dark Foliage: Displays chocolate to purple-black leaves with a reflective surface for strong contrast in containers and garden beds.
- Ruffled Texture: Produces thick heart-shaped leaves with ruffled edges that add extra movement and depth to the planting.
- Moisture Tolerance: Performs well in consistently moist to wet soils, making it useful near ponds, rain gardens, and water features.
- Fast Warm-Season Growth: Responds quickly to heat, water, and fertility with lush foliage during the growing season.
- Tropical Impact: Brings bold scale, dark color, and glossy texture to patios, pool areas, large beds, moist gardens, and seasonal displays.
Diamond Head Elephant Ear is an excellent choice for gardeners who want dark foliage, tropical texture, and strong seasonal impact. Its glossy purple-black leaves, ruffled edges, clumping habit, and love of moisture make it a standout plant for containers, patios, pond edges, and dramatic warm-season landscape designs.
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★★★★★ 5
a modern love story
Format: Kindle
This book captured my attention from the first line. She has a way of making you feel the emotions, heartache, and even loving memories she shares. I literally remember stopping to tell my boyfriend I couldn't wait to have kids because of the way she described picking up her children from school and their innocent smiles as soon as they saw her. It's a tragedy and a love story, and a coming to her own all in one. Loved this book!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Memories Are Made of This
Format: Kindle
Belle Burden has overcome a weighty burden—pun intended! Strangers is a book of many colors. There is so much of the overcast gray of heartbreak and estrangement. There is plenty of the blue of heavy disappointment and grief. But happily for every reader, there are so many of the bright colors of happiness and fulfillment. The premise of this memoir has been well documented—a wealthy, privileged life led by a woman of means is interrupted by the abrupt departure of her husband for points unknown. Children remain—-lodged in some difficult ‘tween years. Central is the woman who just happens to be made of pretty stern stuff as it turns out and who is a brilliant writer. Belle Burden is the belle of her own tale. She shares it all with the reader in un-put-down-able prose, sparing nothing, We are richer for reading Belle Burden’s beautifully crafted memoir. The warm glow of hope is there for all to share. Well done!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Surprisingly Unputdownable
Format: Kindle
I read saw several reviews that said this book wasn’t really about anything, and they were right. There was no big drama, no fighting, no headline news. But there was something in the writing that felt profound and I couldn’t stop reading. And I’m glad I didn’t.
In the end for me, this was a story about a marriage, and choices that were made and the strength of a woman who wouldn’t be silent, and the writing that brought so much emotion with it that I wound up feeling all of it so deeply. And when a writer can create those feelings in me, then her book was definitely worth reading.
I highly recommend this book - I don’t think you’ll regret the time you spend in its pages. I know I didn’t.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2026
★★★★★ 3
Slightly Interesting
Format: Kindle
First, I think Belle is a great writer. There was a lot of effort put into making this a very readable book. I also think that what happened to her really was terrible. Her husband 100% was wrong in what he did to her with the affair and his disappearance. Ultimately, her marriage prior to the betrayal seemed very superficial. She acknowledges that she chose the comforts of wealth over a close relationship. She had a part time husband/father and honestly it's not surprising that he left. He was barely there to begin.
Her absolute terror in imagining that she would drop down from the top 0.1% down to around the top 1% was not the compelling tragedy that she seems to think it is. Her bemoaning of the loss of ultra luxuries tended to diminish the emotional toll of her plight.
The book is laced through with the eventual end that her husband is going to take his assets and half of hers, but it never happens. I think she wants to relate the uncertainty and fear that she had, but it comes off as fake panic.
In the end, it's a sad story, but it was very predictable. It's a story about a woman who outsourced her responsibilities, who doesn't know how to operate without extreme wealth, and who shudders at the prospect of having to work a job. It was a short book, but 3 times longer than necessary.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Raw and Honest
Format: Hardcover
I admit I purchased this book because of all the hype, but also because I have been, since childhood, intrigued by her various family legacies (Burden, Vanderbilt, Cushing, Fairbanks), and their alliances (Whitney, Astor, Roosevelt, etc). I was not sure what to expect, but I am grateful I read this book. Being a queer man I probably am not the core audience for this book, I can attest it is still a great read.
Ms. Burden is amazingly candid and honest in a way I don't think most people in her situation would be. I can already tell that there will probably be countless reviews about how privileged her life was even during and after her divorce, and how unrelatable this book is for many people, but then you are missing something. If you want to judge Ms. Burden for things she had no control over then you should examine your own life.
My hat off to the author for being so open about such private matters in her life, and also for doing a great job shielding her children in life and in the book.
I hope it is true that there is a movie/series being made that will star Gwyneth Paltrow. I love Gwyneth, and if the author won't play herself I think Gwyneth is an amazing choice for her poise, acting ability, and class. Can't recommend this enough!
OH, I am curious to know if anyone who read this book read Wendy Burden's memoir Dead End Gene Pool. I LOVE that book, but it is so very very different, and I am curious to know if Wendy and Amanda get along irl.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2026