Q: I have dug and now am drying the excess moisture from the cannas. I am splitting the excessive clumps for storage. Should I take the clumps down to one tuber or can I leave a few together? Should I ...

Cannas, caladiums, dahlias, gladiolus and tuberous begonias will not survive St. Louis winters out of doors. But, because these plants have specialized underground storage organs such as a tuber, corm ...

You can dig them when they have yellowed and begun to die back,or wait till after the first heavy frost but before the soil freezes. You don't want to wait and dig when it's too difficult because the ...

Q: Do you have any suggestions on where I can store cannas over winter? Last year I kept them in the basement (around 60 degrees) in vermiculite, but it must have been too warm because half of them ...

Saving cannas from the coming winter after frost blackens their leaves is an autumn ritual for Midwest gardeners. Southern gardeners get to skip this chore, but I don’t envy them. Canna rhizomes ...

I was digging up my canna bulbs for winter storage and noticed a white substance around the roots of some of them. I was wondering if this is mold or fungus of some sort. If so, do I need to get rid ...

Q: I have numerous canna bulbs that I stored in peat moss over the winter. My wife and I are going away for two months this summer and I wondered if the bulbs would be OK if I did not plant them this ...