Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: searching for cannas, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Holy cow - 112.4?!!! Out here it has been hovering around 103 most days. I dug up the canna patch in my front yard in January because the Brazilian Skipper Butterfly caterpillars shredded them. Dished out rhizomes to relatives and planted others in pots for the back yard. I must have missed a few in the front yard patch because now I have 5 foot cannas again. I have just run of the mill canna that blooms orange and they are out in full sun - they are back to 6 feet tall and doing great. Am sure the Brazilian Skippers will make a meal of them again (much to the dismay of my neat yard neighbors) - but hey, that's why I have them...just to keep the Brazilian Skipper caterpillars happy :o)

~ Cat