Mid-Atlantic Gardening: July Blooms, 1 by wind

wind wrote:
We put the boxes in our basement. It's cool, but not freezing down there. They go dormant and we forget about them until the spring. My cousin does the same thing; he doesn't use plastic bags around his boxes though and his tubers always look shriveled to me. Even though they are somewhat dehydrated, his tubers with growing buds always grow beautifully.

A master gardening friend up the street from us has successfully dug a hole below the ground in her backyard, and has stored her dahlia tubers underground. I've never been that adventurous!

These were the last of our cannas that started sprouting happily in peat moss before they got given away to friends to be planted.