Cannas love me
I'm not sure how I feel about them, but cannas love me.Last spring, Jeff's dad gave us one box of canna bulbs. We planted them, then ignored them. They thrived, providing us with tons of red tropical flowers.
In the fall, we thought, "Hey, we'll dig them up and have a few for next year, if they survive the winter in the cellar."
We dug up three boxes, and even though all I did was store them off the floor, making sure they didn't get wet, apparently I couldn't manage to kill them.
We ran out of places to plant them, even though we gave away an entire box to my mom (have fun digging those up at grandpa's this fall, mom!), we still had to find places to plant the remainder. We gave up after a while, and some of them Jeff just shoved under a thin layer of dirt on the side of the house.
They're happy as clams.
Anyone want some cannas this fall?
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Jessica, that is an amazing specimen. Just gorgeous!
Pretty!
These are some spectacular plants! Many years ago, my husband and I were responsible for maintenance and upkeep for a 50 unit apartment building with a huge courtyard filled with these things. I had read up on how to care for them and dug them up in the fall per the instructions, storing them in large boxes full of sawdust - I think I ended up with about 40 boxes of the bulbs! Now THAT was a LOT of work! Then the building was sold and we lost the job, I don't think the new owners bothered to replant them. In the meantime, I read somewhere that it isn't necessary to dig them up every year if you mulch the beds heavily. You might want to try that with some of yours, see if they survive. If they do, it would certainly save you alot of work and storage space! Of course, if you LIKE digging them up every year...
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