What do you do when the canna has bloomed and is now setting seed pods? Will they bloom again if cut back? Some advice, please. Every time I go out to water, I ask myself this question and by the time I'm back in the house, I've forgotten. Duh...

That's a good question Alma. I hope we get an answer pretty soon.

I remember reading on DG that some people cut them back after they bloom. Can't remember who so hopefully they chime in...

I just clip the flowers off, and let the plant stay there till early winter, December-January. When I prune my roses back, that's generally when I cut the canna back. Now, I don't know if that's the right thing to do, I'm just saying that's what I do =)

alan

That's pretty much what Deb and I do too. Just didn't know if it was the correct time and method or not. I'll bet Marie would know.

I went looking for some answers and found this - from Garden Web, no less. Apparently, you can get more flowers if you do cut the stalk off after the flower is gone. http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/l...

I clicked on the link below the message and there is a LOT of info there about cannas. This fall, I must remember to dig these plants up and divide them. I bought some rhizomes from Walmart that were supposed to be a 'variety' but they're pretty much all the same. And there's not a single red one in the bunch.

I planted 3 Bengal Tigers I got from Nancy and now there are at least 20 - lol. Definitely need to divide them!

I deadhead mine... I once let them go to seed. Gave some of my apricot *unknowns* to Lynn a couple years ago. Don't know if they sprouted for her.

That's pretty, I like that one. I don't think I've ever seen that color before.

What a yummy, yummy color, Susie! Here's hoping my cannas come roaring back. I chopped off all the spent stalks so I guess I'll soon see. What I can't figure out is what happened to my red canna. I found a photo of it that I took last year (I think) but nothing is blooming red this year.

I deadhead them and then whack them back in the winter...

So how much blooming do they do during the summer? Do you get continuous flushes?

Here are some of mine, Alma. The red was the first to bloom about two weeks ago. The red one gets the most sun of 3 different blooming type Canna I have.

I think this bud will bloom in about a week. I believe it Cleopatra... yellow with red stripes and spots. I think Lynn gave it to me. Also the black one behind it. Don't think the black one blooms.

This is a pic taken today... The others I just posted were taken today, as well. This one is the apricot one I love. I think Marie calls this Susie's Canna because no one knows it's true name.

This is what a seed pod looks like.

A better pic of the seed pod. Guess I enlarged that last one for some reason.