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I like to use the leaves of some plants for interest in my arrangements, but unless I was making a gigantic something for an international flower show, there is no use for these grand alocasia.
canna leaves are nice though - they are smaller, and lasts a long time. The flowers wilt almost right away - but I keep a clump of cannas growing for the leaves.
Lucky you, I have no green thumb when it comes to canna. I use caladium leaves and hostas. I have found that some of my hostas last a long time and others wilt within an hour?
That's funny - I have a brown thumb with hostas so I have never had a plant big enough for me to use the leaves for arrangements. Snails also love them. Cast iron plants (though not a tropical) make good foliage though - last for weeks.
