Water Gardening: Are ALL Canna's suitable for ponds?, 0 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
I've been wondering the same thing about my cannas and other water or bog plants. Here in FL there is no cold weather die-off but the plants do die back after blooming or whatever they consider their season. So far some of the plants I put into my water first tended to partially die off in order to sprout new growth. Others simply started to grow bigger and didn't skip a beat. The cannas seem to fall into the first category in that they seem to need to get acclimatized to their environment. Now one is blooming while others show lots new sprouts. I would suspect that after the bloom I should cut the main stems back to let new sprouts come out. It's like that with my gingers in the ground too. They bloom and hang in there before they eventually turn yellow and die off. Cutting them back after bloom seems to push new growth from below. I know this doesn't mean anything to all you cold weather ponders but I don't want my tubers to rot after blooming either so the topic is valid no matter where we plant. I'll be testing the waters, so to speak, here in no-winterland.

The bloomer can be seen in the attached picture. More shots of my waterplants around and in the pond can be seen at

http://fredrump.phanfare.com/album/252823/356243#imageID=150...