Beginner Gardening: Cannas - Aggressive Pruning?, 1 by lovelyiris

lovelyiris wrote:
I think this is something that everyone has an opinion on and really there is no right or wrong way to prune your cannas. I give mine a haircut several times a year. If the leaves start looking ratty I cut them back to the good leaves. When I'm tired of looking at the bloom stalks sticking way up, I cut them back too. Each and every year my cannas double or triple in plants. I have tons of different ones and just yesterday I cut some back, trimmed the bloomstalks and even pulled some up to toss in the trash.

I planted some on both sides of a flowerbed and they have a take over the world attitude. So when they start multiplying like crazy I just pull some of them out and toss them. That is of course after I planted about 50 different bunches of them all over this place. One can only have so many yellow cannas. Now I'm working on transplanting some of the different colors all over the farm. I've also relocated tons of Cleopatra here. Now if I could just get a bunch of pinks and pastel colors to plant everywhere I'd have it made.

Like Dyane said, you remove the leaves and cut them back some and they plants come back looking better than ever.

Happy Gardening, Marian