Mid-Atlantic Gardening: July Blooms, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
I take extra care when winterizing my canna bulbs. I yank them out of the ground, knock some of the dirt off them and pile them into a big plastic tote and then put that tote into Josh's basement. Josh's basement is heated but it's not very warm it wouldn't get low enough to freeze but probably not higher than 55 if that. Special note: leave the lid off the tote. Also the other fun part of this special handling is that since I don't mark any of the cannas you never know what color or height of canna you have planted in any location so there is always that element of surprised when they start growing and blooming. LOL Most of them come out looking pretty good I use to plant every one but really the ones that were completely dried up mostly didn't grow for me. So instead of planting them in the gardens I dump them in a corner of the Veggie Garden and cover them with dirt to see if anything will come up I usually get a few shoots come up from that pile of discards. This year I was so busy that I just let the discards in the bottom of the tote and tossed a little dirt over them and watered. I got a few shoots from those. Worked out so good that I may just do that again next year and not bother with planting them in the Veggie Garden. I could use some more cannas didn't buy any new ones this year. The last couple of years I got some from the Horn Canna Farm Co-op and they didn't run one this year.
How about a coconut-lime echie?