Re: Cannas

GILL POUND wrote:
Here in the Languedoc I (and everyone else) leave them in the ground
all winter without any losses and they have all survived -8°C, even >-10°C for brief periods; I guess that in SW England damp cold may be the problem.

Here In NZ it is much the same. My old but reliable garden book states " "if frosts are no more than 16 degrees (this would be Farhenheit) the roots may be left in the ground without being disturbed. (This temperature equates almost exactly with -9°C).

In my area where the mercury very rarely dips below -3°C nobody lifts Cannas at all and yet our winters are very wet indeed..

Moira
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