When to start canna lilies
How to Plant Canna Bulbs
My name is Hans Langeveld from Longfield Gardens and I'm going to show you here how to plant
cannas. The nice thing about cannas is they provide backdrop color because they're nice
and tall plants. we're going to plant these right here in this corner, and as they grow
tall and flower all summer they'll produce nice foliage as well as flowers. The nice
thing about these cannas is they'll create a nice tall upright plant which is going to
very nice for this walkway to the patio. Now these cannas, they grow eyes, and the eyes
produce the sprouts where you get the flowers from. With these cannas you want to be looking
for nice sturdy rhizomes that have as many eyes as possible, in this case I count one,
two, three, four eyes. So they will produce four sprouts on this plant. This is nice and
heavy one so it'll give you a nice start and a nice plant. The next step in planting is
determining how to plant it and actually a lot of people ask me how you plant a canna.
When you plant cannas, you want to make sure that you first locate the eyes on the canna
bulb, on the canna rhizome, in this case it's relatively easy because the eyes are all facing
pretty much the same direction. I'm going to plant it like this, upright. In case you
cannot locate the eyes very easily then the next best thing is to plant it flat, sideways
and the eyes will actually then find their way to the surface. So, when we're going to
plant these cannas make sure the holes about three to four inches deep. I'm going to plant
this canna about two inches under the soil line, so they're about two inches deep, and
then cover it up again. Ans remember that cannas is a sun lover, so you'll want to make
sure they get enough sunlight, enough hours of sun during the day to grow and produce
the flowers. And you'll want to plant these cannas about eight to twelve inches apart,
so they have some room to develop. The question is when do you plant cannas, the best is to
wait until the frost in the Spring is gone, and plant it a week or so after that because
in the end cannas are somewhat tropical pants and they like the warmer soils. My name is
Hans Langeveld form Longfield Gardens, and I just showed you how to plant and grow canna.
