Beginner Gardening: Cannas - Aggressive Pruning?, 0 by jgagan

jgagan wrote:
Not to brag but my cannas are amazing year round and I am lucky to have them in my garden.

My secret?

I keep the soil moist or never dry longer than a week, feed once a month and have apparently the only place in America where there are no harmful root snails you speak of. They are multiplying and I have no doubt they will take over the entire plot I have them in based off what you say about the plant. I have never had to cut them back - only pull the dead nearing winter.

My canna are somewhat seasonal where they are tall, have beautiful leaves and blossoms and have more and more flowers every year. Then in winter they die off and grow short stalks of leaves only. Which makes me wonder if I can't plant something amongst them to bloom at that time in the same area that won't jeopardize my cannas?????

I feed them with a local nursery's all purpose plant food made by gro-power 4-8-2.