{"id":1577,"date":"2011-07-30T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2011-07-29T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T13:55:56","slug":"join-the-a-canna-lily-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/07\/30\/join-the-a-canna-lily-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canna Lily Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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'Bengal Tiger' Canna at Kingwood Center, Mansfield, Ohio<\/p><\/div>\n

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'Australia' Canna at Kingwood Center, Mansfield, Ohio<\/p><\/div>\n

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Depending on where you garden, Canna lily (Canna spp<\/em>.) is a tropical-looking, herbaceous annual or perennial. Its colorful foliage and long blooming time leaves a huge visual impact. Canna is not reliably winter hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7). Canna relishes moist soils. Container grown plants thrive submerged in\u00a0a water garden.<\/p>\n

Leaves\u00a0wrap spirally around\u00a0the main stem(s). Most cultivars have emerald-green foliage, either\u00a0a waxy (glaucous) or dull (matted) leaf surface. Some exhibit colorful andvariegated foliage. New canna leaves unfurl at night.<\/p>\n

Canna flowers from midsummer up to first\u00a0frost. Cultivar heights range from 5 to 15 feet (and more), depending on the\u00a0cultivar and its care. Removal of spent flowers stimulates formation of new floral heads. Flower choices range from oft-white, yellow, orange, red, and a mosaic of many colors. Canna flowers are visited by bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies.<\/p>\n

Three favorites in the colorful foliage category are \u2018Australia\u2019 (purple leaf, red flower); \u2018Bengal Tiger\u2019 aka \u2018Pretoria\u2019 (yellow\/green striped leaf, orange flower); \u2018Tropicana\u2019 aka \u2018Phaison\u2019 (green, red, purple, gold\u00a0 striped leaf, salmon orange flower).<\/p>\n

A serious problem of cannas is virus diseases, which cause leaves to distort or mar the colorful foliage. Leaf roller insects may\u00a0also build up and become\u00a0a\u00a0serious pest\u00a0in some gardens.<\/p>\n

In late fall canna rhizomes are lifted from garden beds and stored in dry peat moss above freezing over winter.<\/p>\n

More about “Winter Care of Tropicals” in a late October blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    Depending on where you garden, Canna lily (Canna spp.) is a tropical-looking, herbaceous annual or perennial. Its colorful foliage and long blooming time leaves a huge visual impact. Canna is not reliably winter hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[752,753,665,630,706,1,754,553,113,455,162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}