Type of Flowers
Canna Lily:
Cannas lily are vibrant tender perennials that arrive at bold leaves together with showy flowers inwards shades of red, orange, yellows together with pinks. It is a useful summertime bedding found for both containers together with borders, but does good inwards cool conservatories inwards summer. Cannas tin endure grown inwards borders or containers.
They are grown from rhizomes (underground stems), which you lot volition honor for sale inwards belatedly wintertime inwards bags of shredded paper, or sold loose. Cannas are slow to grow from rhizomes, but you lot tin besides purchase plants over the summer. They are tender plants, but inwards warmer parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland you lot tin exit the rhizomes inwards the Earth amongst a roofing of mulch.
Start rhizomes off into increment inwards March yesteryear planting inwards 20cm (8in) pots using multi-purpose compost. The rhizomes should endure exactly covered amongst compost, leaving whatsoever immature shoots exposed. Water lightly. Keep the rhizomes at a temperature of 10-16°C (50-61°F), such equally inwards a heated greenhouse or sunny conservatory. If heating is non available, delay potting until April. Increase watering equally increment develops.
Move the plants to a cool greenhouse inwards mid-April together with gradually harden off earlier planting out at the destination of May (or when the terminal frosts receive got past).
Plant close 75cm (30in) apart, 10cm (4in) deep. In borders, pick out a sheltered, sunny spot together with soil that has been improved yesteryear excavation inwards well-rotted manure or garden compost. Also apply a full general usage fertilizer, such equally growmore, at 70g per sq 1000 (2oz per sq yd).
If growing inwards containers, usage ane at to the lowest degree 30cm (1ft) wide. Fill amongst a John Innes No. iii loam-based compost together with add together a controlled-release fertiliser. Plant the rhizomes at the same depth equally inwards borders (see above).
To assistance maintain your cannas healthy.
- Water freely inwards dry out spells
- Apply a liquid fertiliser inwards midsummer
- Deadhead to encourage continued flowering
- Little pruning or preparation is needed. Just stake clumps inwards exposed positions
- When a bloom spike has no to a greater extent than buds, prune it downwardly to the adjacent side shoot where a secondary bloom spike should develop
- Under glass, grow inwards total lite but shade from hot sun. If temperatures are maintained inwards a higher house 10°C (50°F) cannas volition rest inwards increment all wintertime together with bloom occasionally
In mild areas: Plants tin endure left exterior all twelvemonth inwards a sunny, sheltered position. However, apply a 15cm (6in) deep layer of mulch inwards wintertime together with endure prepared that at that topographic point may endure losses inwards really mutual frigidity or moisture winters.
In colder areas: Pot-grown specimens tin only endure moved into a frost-free place. Otherwise, elevator the rhizomes in ane trial the summit increment begins to wither inwards autumn. Cut downwardly the leaf together with stems to close 15cm (6in). Remove surplus soil, dry out together with and thus shop inwards trays inwards barely-damp woods vermiculite or multi-purpose compost. Place inwards a frost-free pose for the winter. Little, if any, watering should endure necessary.
A mutual work is non-flowering.
This is commonly due to starting the rhizomes into increment late, but tin besides endure caused yesteryear a lack of H2O or misfortunate soil fertility. Plants tin endure infected amongst virus, which may endure indicated yesteryear distorted foliage, or a xanthous streaking, or mosaic designing on the leaves. There is no cure for viruses together with infected plants should endure destroyed.
Other problems include park garden pests such equally glasshouse ruby spider mite, aphids, slugs together with snails.
