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Re: [SG] Overwintering

We just leave our canna in the ground and they keep coming back doubled.
When we dug ours up a few years back,  we lost all that we dug.
Preston Littleton
Seaford DE
zone 7
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Cook <mikecook@PIPELINE.COM>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 1:30 AM
Subject: [SG] Overwintering


>>Canna have always given me a fit.  Oddly enough, the last couple of years
>>I've dug them and ended up leaving them in a pile in the garage and had
>more >come through the winter alive
>
>This may be the way to do it, Marge.  A friend of mine who is a Canna
>fanatic stores his just this way and had not lost a one in at least ten
>years.  Mine have always dried out or rotted while I tried what I thought
>were 'better' storage methods!
>
>>Probably through sheer luck, I have managed to keep Sarracenia leucophylla
>>alive for two summers and a winter and it actually bloomed and made
>>pitchers for me this year (Yea!)
>
>This is one of the Sarracenia I am buying.  I have another question for
>you:  Must the plants be in spaghnum peat when planted out next spring?  I
>have a small, acidic marsh (artificial), which I keep moist but without
>standing water; the medium is composted soil, grass, and leaf mold rather
>than spaghnum moss.  The marsh is where I intended to grow the pitcher
>plants, but I don't want to put them in an environment that is too rich for
>them.
>
>Thanks for the links!
>
>
>Sheila Smith
>mikecook@pipeline.com
>Niles, MI  USA, Z 5/6
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