Hello Texas Gardeners.......My sister lives in the Ft.Worth area, and has asked me, (A Michigander) to identify this plant that keeps coming up year after year. She keeps pulling it out and each year keeps coming back
It looks very similar to a Canna Lily to me with the wide green leaves, but the size of the flower has me stumped. Can anyone out there help me identify it for her.
Thanks........
Deann from Michigan
Here is another picture of the plant I hope someone can identify.
Deann
One more shot of the plant.
Deann
You guessed correctly, Deann! that's a canna for sure. They are hard to get rid of but they're pretty. And hers look healthy.
Her cannas are very healthy, and great for hummers.
Indian shot canna
Red Mexican Canna - Canna Warscewiczii
http://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/plant_display.asp?prodid=1708&account=none
http://www.yuccado.com/displayone.php?ytitle=Canna%20warscewiczii
Well, I guess if it looks like a Canna, it is probably a Canna, right?
A canna's a canna's a canna! LOL.
very pretty...
You Texas gardeners are awesome!! I knew I could count on you............thanks so much.....
Now, if any of y'all have someone in Michigan or the Midwest that needs help in identifying a plant......please call me...so I can reciprocate...
Deann
tell her if she really doesn't want them to dig them up and bring to the fall roundup... I know plenty of us going that would love to have more.
I second that.
Good Lord, thats a huge Canna Patch! They are probaly all under the house. i got two barrels full, about nine different kinds ... but i lost all the tags . I got one that blooming ... its yellow and white ... never seen it before. I will bring some the RU.
Which RU? Hou, I hope!
Er you comin' on down? lol
Arlington for sure....
Come on Sylvia! We need ya at the Houston swap too!
She knows she can stay with me anytime she comes this way! So I told her to come on!
cool... I want dibs on some of the canna.... Deer don't bother it much so I can plant it!!!!!!
Want some of those Red Mexican like this thread is about? hehehe
I got them & several other kinds. Don't know what Sylvia got in that barrel! I only know her Hosta Yard, intimately!!! See pix on....
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/730055/#new
June 17, 2007
*giggle Can't have hostas.... Deer think they are CANDY.
Shoot, my deer eat any & everything if it doesn't have chicken wire around it!
Think I should cash in my SW Airlines, Krispy Kremes, & my oil & gas stock & invest in chicken wire! I think that is the only way I am ever going to have real flower beds...........if they have chicken wire around them!!!
:~)
my deer don't eat EVERYTHING... just LOTS of things.
I dont think I want to dig up the Cannas right now. I got to wait until they blloom so I will know what I have out there. Some didnt bloom for me last year ... they were too compacted. Sharing is no problem ... I can always mail em to ya! :)
If i came I would leave home Saturday morning, its no way I can come after work. :( Its too tiring.
We'll be there all day Sylvia! Come on down and have some fun and eat a bunch of good food!
Is anybody from the san antonio area going?
