Re: cannas
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- Subject: Re: cannas
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 01:40:09 -0400
Well, Elle, if neighbors are having full height cannas, then your
summer can't be too cool for them. Wonder if they were rather
smallish divisions to start with? If your slope faces north, that
could have something to do with it, even if there's nothing overhead
shading them...or, perhaps, the other plants in the bed are shading
them?
I have grown mine on slight north facing slopes, mashed in with a lot
of other plants who were taller and found that they do not reach full
height, even in steamy MD summers with plenty of water. They really
are sun lovers, although they will grow and flower in light
shade...they just won't grow as large.
I'd mulch well for winter and give them another year. Really don't
know if a feed would help or not...my poor children get a nice glop
of compost when planted and that's it:-)
Glad you're enjoying the hydrangea series...they are easy to
propagate - at least most are - I love to see plants grow from
cuttings...always a thrill!
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: elle <eleanor@easystreet.com>
> Date: Monday, August 21, 2000 4:02 PM
> We have had a coolish summer but the cannas are planted in the full
sun
> part of the gardens.Both in the south yard which gets full sun and
in
> the all day sun slope on the north side of my house in the cutting
> garden. I had read they need moist so they are on the downhill
side
> behind everything else.
> I bought the giant cannas, City of Portland, Tropicana and others
whose
> names I forgot.
> > You ought to be able to overwinter them in your zone if your soil
> > doesn't stay too soggy over winter,
> Thats what I hope but in any case I will mulch them good come fall.
> Neighbors have their cannas full height now and I am a bit miffed
at mine!
> Maybe a late summer feeding of mulch and food dug in would help,
but
> it's just my luck that they will bloom when I'm on vacation!
> Thanks for your interesting hydrangea series. I am hoping to make
> starts off my 3 plants to share with daughters and plant around my
gardens.
> Also am doing good starts of b. davidii and salvia elegans
(pineapple
> sage) for more fall color.
> elle in OR (Z8)
>
>
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