I love your programs Cory, I have followed your planting ideas this last spring trying canna, colius, Dalias, salvia and biden for first time ever.Your videos are just perfect, please dont change the formatting.... The colous did not take our cold spring even tho they were covered (I lost 7 out of 9 plants.) We are located in central BC Canada, zone 3b. We are also trying to over winter the canna bulb and the dalia bulbs in our basement. We have minus 30 - 40 degrees in winter over the month of January and sometimes into March, therefore we don't plant until after the long weekend in May (approx the 20th) the plants still need covering until the frost gives up. I was shocked with the growth of the dalia, they completely took over all my huge tubes crowding out bidens, petunias and smaller plants, but they were beaufifull!!!. Our favorite was the salvia, it grew up to 3' in my planters with every pollenator we have here visiting every day, we are planting more of these lovely growers next spring. Thank you so much i could just hug you!! You are a dear.
I have so much respect for you gardeners up north. It's my first year making flower beds and ordering plants and planting bulbs and beautiful things. It seems like I did so much. 😩 If I then had to dig it all up and winterize it and then plant it again next year! 😭 I just couldn't. Y'all are amazing.
I had an aquatic GC. We grew alot of cannas. There are a few ways to overwinter. Pne is bring entire plant in before frost and continue to grow. The way we did it was to let you he frost hit it several times to put it into dormancy. Dig it up. Wash all the soil off. Divide into multiple tubets preferably with one or two growing tips. Dry for a week inside. Store in vermiculite or wood shavings in a cool dark place overwinter. Plant up again early spring!😊
I know that canna lily as “Cleopatra” with red random marks both the bloom and foliage. Cleopatra can produce leaves in 3 different forms: solid green foliage, solid bronze foliage, or bi-color foliage (preferred)
Corey, I just dig my cannas and store them in my cool dark basement in large paper bags or cardb0ard b0xes, and they are ready to plant in the spring. The purple oxalis can also be easily dug and stored similarly. You will have oodles of small, long, pink-colored bulbs all attached to an opaque carrot-like structure that needs to be left on the clusters of bulbs. This moisture source keeps them from drying completely over the winter. I leave the clumps of tiny bulbs intact until I'm ready to plant them in the spring, and then I separate and plant each tiny pinkish bulb. Good luck. ~Margie🤗
I'm laughing at this video because you sound like I did when I dug mine up last week. Will this sprout? Did I cut the stem too short? Is my basement going to be too warm. It the garage too cold? Are they going to shrivel being in wood shavings? Oh the questions. Good luck to you! If anything, this will be a learning experience for the both of us!
I have grown cannas for 15 years. Central Indiana. Zone 6. Here is my method. Very successful. After first kills the tops. Cut them off. Dig canna rhizomes and let dry for a day or so. I get large totes. Put a layer of potting soil. Layer of leaves. Layer of cannas. Stack as many as I can and water sparingly. Store in a garage that stays above 40°. Don’t seal the lid I usually just put an old furnace filter over the top. Check about once a month. Water a tiny bit of very dry. Works great for me
I’ve grown cannas for twenty years now. I grow all my cannas in very large pots. I cut the stems first. Then I pull them out of the potting soil. Let them dry for a week. Cut the roots off. Then I put them in a box and cover them with peat moss to keep them dry. Make sure to label the variety and keep them in a cool dry space. Also cut the seed pods and that will keep your plant blooming beautifully. Come spring bring your cannas out of the boxes and replant them and they will grow beautifully.
I have had very good luck with the common cannas but the fancier ones, not so much. My common ones always get huge and I end up discarding some because they multiply so well. My fancy ones will winter over but never seem to make more tubers and are less vigorous. And maybe that's just me.
There is a great video from Horn Canna Farm about overwintering canna. I followed it and kept mine in buckets in the basement. I cheat and start mine under grow lights in basement.
Never tried it, but I saw a video that a lady moved her’s next to the brick wall of the house and as long as plant was against the brick, it winterized itself out in cold winter and didn’t die. Has anyone else tried this with Cannas?
I love your programs Cory, I have followed your planting ideas this last spring trying canna, colius, Dalias, salvia and biden for first time ever.Your videos are just perfect, please dont change the formatting....
The colous did not take our cold spring even tho they were covered (I lost 7 out of 9 plants.) We are located in central BC Canada, zone 3b. We are also trying to over winter the canna bulb and the dalia bulbs in our basement. We have minus 30 - 40 degrees in winter over the month of January and sometimes into March, therefore we don't plant until after the long weekend in May (approx the 20th) the plants still need covering until the frost gives up. I was shocked with the growth of the dalia, they completely took over all my huge tubes crowding out bidens, petunias and smaller plants, but they were beaufifull!!!. Our favorite was the salvia, it grew up to 3' in my planters with every pollenator we have here visiting every day, we are planting more of these lovely growers next spring. Thank you so much i could just hug you!! You are a dear.
I have so much respect for you gardeners up north. It's my first year making flower beds and ordering plants and planting bulbs and beautiful things. It seems like I did so much. 😩 If I then had to dig it all up and winterize it and then plant it again next year! 😭 I just couldn't. Y'all are amazing.
Good luck Corey, great experiment! I don’t overwinter anything, garage too cold, basement too warm. Zone3 Manitoba 🇨🇦👏🍁
I had an aquatic GC. We grew alot of cannas. There are a few ways to overwinter. Pne is bring entire plant in before frost and continue to grow. The way we did it was to let you he frost hit it several times to put it into dormancy. Dig it up. Wash all the soil off. Divide into multiple tubets preferably with one or two growing tips. Dry for a week inside. Store in vermiculite or wood shavings in a cool dark place overwinter. Plant up again early spring!😊
I’m doing it every year and it’s getting bigger and beautiful!❤
I usually dont do orange in my garden, but i love that speckled one..sign me up! 😂
Haven't had a chance to get to Marquette this summer, would have liked to drive by and see all your landscaping....only 42 miles away
I know that canna lily as “Cleopatra” with red random marks both the bloom and foliage.
Cleopatra can produce leaves in 3 different forms: solid green foliage, solid bronze foliage, or bi-color foliage (preferred)
Corey, I just dig my cannas and store them in my cool dark basement in large paper bags or cardb0ard b0xes, and they are ready to plant in the spring. The purple oxalis can also be easily dug and stored similarly. You will have oodles of small, long, pink-colored bulbs all attached to an opaque carrot-like structure that needs to be left on the clusters of bulbs. This moisture source keeps them from drying completely over the winter. I leave the clumps of tiny bulbs intact until I'm ready to plant them in the spring, and then I separate and plant each tiny pinkish bulb. Good luck. ~Margie🤗
I'm laughing at this video because you sound like I did when I dug mine up last week. Will this sprout? Did I cut the stem too short? Is my basement going to be too warm. It the garage too cold? Are they going to shrivel being in wood shavings? Oh the questions. Good luck to you! If anything, this will be a learning experience for the both of us!
I'm quite fond of the fact that there's no pressure for the experiment to succeed -- but I'd LOVE IT if it did! Good luck with yours.
I’m in PA zone 7 and just dug up my cannas in preparation for a new deck. Hopefully I remember to plant them next year!
I have grown cannas for 15 years. Central Indiana. Zone 6. Here is my method. Very successful. After first kills the tops. Cut them off. Dig canna rhizomes and let dry for a day or so. I get large totes. Put a layer of potting soil. Layer of leaves. Layer of cannas. Stack as many as I can and water sparingly. Store in a garage that stays above 40°. Don’t seal the lid I usually just put an old furnace filter over the top. Check about once a month.
Water a tiny bit of very dry. Works great for me
I’ve grown cannas for twenty years now. I grow all my cannas in very large pots. I cut the stems first. Then I pull them out of the potting soil. Let them dry for a week. Cut the roots off. Then I put them in a box and cover them with peat moss to keep them dry. Make sure to label the variety and keep them in a cool dry space. Also cut the seed pods and that will keep your plant blooming beautifully. Come spring bring your cannas out of the boxes and replant them and they will grow beautifully.
Hi Corey! The Cleopatra canna is a hybrid so it does not produce seeds.
That explains it.
I have had very good luck with the common cannas but the fancier ones, not so much. My common ones always get huge and I end up discarding some because they multiply so well. My fancy ones will winter over but never seem to make more tubers and are less vigorous. And maybe that's just me.
There is a great video from Horn Canna Farm about overwintering canna. I followed it and kept mine in buckets in the basement. I cheat and start mine under grow lights in basement.
Never tried it, but I saw a video that a lady moved her’s next to the brick wall of the house and as long as plant was against the brick, it winterized itself out in cold winter and didn’t die. Has anyone else tried this with Cannas?
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I wrapped my canna in newspaper and put them in a dark place.