FREE: Red Canna Lily - 5 seeds

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Botanical name: Canna x generalis

Plant type: Flower

USDA Hardiness Zones: 8, 9, 10, 11

Sun exposure: Full Sun

Soil type: Any, Sandy, Loamy, Clay

Flower color: Red

Bloom time: Summer, Fall

Cannas are among the most colorful summer bulbs—as flamboyant as their tropical American ancestry—with ruffled spikes tapering to refined buds.

These perennials come in a vast variety of color and boast immense, often-veined, paddle-shaped leaves and sheathing leafstalks in shades of green or bronze.

With their great reedy canes and palmy foliage, cannas would be magnificent even if they never bloomed. However, they keep blossoming from late spring or early summer to frost.
Planting

Exotic, tropical creatures, cannas need lots of sunshine and fertile, moist soil but you don't have to pamper them.
Cannas can be started in the house in small pots if your gardening season is short.
Where not hardy, plant outdoors in early summer—around the same time you'd put in tomato plants.
To plant, loosen the soil to a depth of 12 to 15 inches, then mix in a 2- to 4-inch layer of compost.
Dig a hole 2 to 3 inches deep and set the rhizome in the hole, eyes up.
Cover with soil and tamp firmly. Water thoroughly.
Space rhizomes 1 to 4 feet apart.
If you grow from seed, note that the germination rate is low and the seeds need to be filed or given an acid bath to break down their hard coat