My favorite tropical & exotic flower | Canna Lily care and requirements

My favorite tropical & exotic flower is... the Canna Lily! I love how this flower comes in a variety of heights and colors, both in the flowers as well as the foliage! Here I go over the Canna Lily care and requirements so you know what to expect if you choose to grow this beautiful specimen! PLUS, folks up to zone 7 can likely enjoy this full sun flower as a perennial!

My name is Nicole, and My Carolina Garden is in growing zone 8A in Southeastern North Carolina. Canna Lilies are perennials for me here because my ground doesn't freeze.

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[siarlbychan]

I would bring the Cannas in the drainage ditch up out of the lowest point and about half way between the lowest point and where your planting bed is where all the others are. Stunning landscaping around the pool!!

[rlik]

Thank you for the canna Lilly info. I have a beauty she's tall and I think I want more. I love the tropical look you have.

[ThePegasus]

great tip there my canas looked like they where growing seed pods ive cut them off

[sandytoes]

I love Canna Lilies, too! Gorgeous flowers, and gorgeous gardens as well!! 🤩

[goctalis]

I am a small balcony gardener, zone 6 b, Romania, and canna lilies are my favourites balcony- plants. I have yellow and orange cannas, I overwinter them in the cold staircase . They are so beautiful and exotic and they come back. I have blue flowers too, a blue hydrangea and a plumbago auriculata, which I overwinter too. Your garden is absolutely gorgeous. I don`t know if plumbago is a perennial in your zone, but it has such a magic blue colour and it likes full sun. Mine is not that spectacular, because it gets only 3 -4 hours of sun, I am so happy that my canna lilys accept this conditions, but I have to wait until end of june for them to flower. I have a dwarf banana too, for the first time, I love it so much.

[ramatkhmat]

Hello, beautiful flowers, thanks for sharing🌷🌿👍🤝👌💐🌺

[boostjunkieMike]

Thanks for sharing 👌🏾😎👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾😍😍your garden looks amazing and is inspiring.

[budgetgardeningvita]

Your Canna Lilies are beautiful! Here in New Hampshire zone 5b I have to bring mine in for the winter but it's so worth the effort! Thanks for sharing. 🌻

[mitcheljolienetresslar]

Excellent video! Plant some Vetiver in the ditch. The grass will absorb all of the water and also retain it.

[jeanstorey]

This was very informative - thank you! I was first introduced to Canna lilies last year and now have three different kinds in raised garden planters on my balcony. They don't seem to mind the heat and wind as I am on the 23rd floor in an apartment in Canada. I think that I am in zone 3, so I will have to bring them indoors for the winter.

[tinapaxton]

I love canvas, too. At my previous home in Calabash, I tried growing them in the ditch for the same reason you stated. The ones down in the ditch weren't happy but the ones I planted higher on the slope did much better. Have you tried irises in the ditch? Down here in Brunswick County, I see many drainage ditches planted with some type of irises that do exceptionally well in wet conditions.

[geoffreyhussey]

Thank you so much love your video Geoff from the UK London

[Flora-Interior]

Wow so interesting about the last cannas that are not thriving in that area .
I was thinking of putting some in a small creek behind my property were water increases and decreases with the rainfall, but now I'm not so sure if they'll like it there.
Thanks for sharing your experience Nicole 💚🪴

[tanyawales]

In your swale try:
1) Large calla lilies which come in white, white with green, yellow and pink flowers
2) Louisiana iris
3) Evergreen reblooming daylilies (Hemerocallis) commonly called and used as 'ditch lilies'
4) Papyrus dwarf or tall

On the areas that are too wet for grass try:
1) Sowing miniature or micro clover seeds which don't grow very tall so mowing isn't an ordeal.
2) Ground covers that are woodland type plants. Violets are a good example of that.
3) Ginger from roots you can buy at the supermarket and divide before planting.

[googleuser]

Love all your videos! I got canna lily from private seller and while taking out I broke the stem. Now my question is can I do something with that stem has no roots. For now I just kept in the water.

[johnkulcsar]

Very insightful., especially the usage & results of too much water. Thanks

[anakarenina]

Cannas are my favorites plants! I have maybe 8 or 10 varieties. When the flowers are gone, the little ball are seeds.

[darlarodriguez]

I've seen canna lilies at Pond stores that carry various marginal, bog, and floating pond plants. I've had a few myself that were already adapted to growing in water in my small garden pond, in a pot with about an inch to two inches of pond water over the crown. So the best place to find a canna that has already been adapted of course to growing in water is a place of business that carries pond plants. In a situation where the water levels will vary like your water run off area...probably as you have experience not a good idea. Stresses the plant out going from moist soil, to wet and back, in my opinion. Enjoyed your video and always a good idea to refresh your memory of the needs of canna lilies. I plan on planting several this year around my pond area, but not on the pond shelf like I've done in years past. These canna lilies won't have wet feet.

[patboyle]

Thanks you for the information it is appreciated 😊 your cannas are beautiful and I was not aware that there are shorter ones. I have a wet area in my yard and what has thrived there has been King Tut plant and Summerific Hibiscus🤷‍♀️

[JesseDavis]

An option to ditch cannas would be African Iris (specifically the Yellow African iris) - I have had really good luck with them as "walls" of plants along ditches like that. In Africa they spend part of the year submerged in water in the monsoons and then in pretty much desert the other part of the year - so they handle both extremes really well. They are good looking too and produce a lot of flowers with little to zero care here in Houston. As an aside, I live in a really old neighborhood and we have ditch cannas that have just spread themselves around - they "re-wild" and stay small, but otherwise thrive in, basically, abandoned, wild conditions.