Rob's plants home garden plants wildlife seed photos plant sale journal topics plantlinks fun guestbook Canna indica

 

'Wyoming' Common name arrowroot Family cannaceae Life cycle perennial (Z8-11) Flowers various colors (summer) Light sun-part shade Cultural notes moist soil Grown both for dramatic foliage and flashy flowers. We grew them for a few years when we first started gardening in Pennsylvania, where cannas are not hardy. We'd lift them every fall – until I forgot one year. Years later, a colleague gave me a bunch of tubers when it was already fairly late in the season. I quickly planted them in a few places around the garden, and some started blooming in September. Now that we're in Houston, cannas are perfectly hardy, having no problem with even the most severe winters we've seen in recent years – no more lifting tubers in fall! We picked a few varieties up at a local nursery, to plant around our pond: Wyoming (red), Orange Beauty, and King City Gold. That was in September, so I figured they were done for the year, but they surprised us by continuing to bloom well into November. Then they were back by early spring, clearly intent on conquering more territory as they expand their clumps with new shoots.

'Orange Beauty'

'King City Gold' in mid-November

'King City Gold' takes the prize for first bloom, mid-March

In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: waterfall pondside

About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Canna indica

Visitors to this page have left the following comments

I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my guestbook. If you have a question that needs a personal response, please e-mail me.