PlantFiles Pictures: Canna Lily 'Red King Humbert' (Canna x generalis), 1 by Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron wrote:
Mine is right outside the dining room window. Makes for great viewing, but it is in deep shade from a massive oak tree and the 2 story house, so I can't really grow flowers in it. The little yellow-blooming plant in the picture died off already. During the fall, it fills up with oak leaves, and then it smells like a sewer in the spring when I drain it and clean it! I keep a large goldfish and a pleicostomus in there during the summer and they keep the mosquito larvae and some of the algae at bay. We often have a dozen frogs or more sitting around it. Here is someone else who likes to hang out there: