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Mature plant in flower.


Do you need anything else?

you could plant trailing bedding plants such as Lobilia around the circumferance of the pot but sometimes 'Less is more'.

I agree with Moriati.... If you want something trailing maybe a pretty yellow green varigated ivy and let the Canna be the star.

I saw a really beautiful combo it had Canna Tropicanna with Dahlia Bishop and Japanese blood grass.

Moriati,

Do you know what size pot that is? This is one of the things I am having trouble deciding on as I haven't grown cannas before and have heard stories of pots breaking from the tubers packing in.

I like coleus with cannas.
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KyndaC - is that a "King Humbert" canna?

I don't know. I'm fairly new to the garden web forums and I never knew how important the names were. My garden is full of things I love, but 90% have no names!

That pot has a rim measurement of 24 inches. I would suggest planting maybe 3 rhizomes in your pot to get a good result the first summer. If fed and watered well and given an early start, they grow at an amazing rate.

The pot in the photo is tipped out and murdered with an axe every 2-3 years and yes, they can break the pots. I've had several simply push the growing roots straight through the wall of plastic pots.

Always choose the shape of pot with care. It must be wider at the top and with no inner lip to impede the removal of the root crown.

I find it best to cut the stems to a few inches above soil level, then leave the pots in storage cool and dry till about January. By then, the soil and rhizomes will have dried out and shrunk a bit making it easier to remove.

I like coleus with cannas, too. I have a lot of lime green and burgundy-to-black stuff tucked in with my cannas. I also put triphylla hybrid fuchsias in with some of them, and Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrina' in with others. I use the Sweet Potato vines a lot in my containers as well.

OK, thanks everyone for your help. I really liked seeing the pictures (I hate how garden catalogs rarely show the entire plant in a natural setting) and I now have a good idea of what I will do pot size wise.

Not sure how you would fit these into a container, but I've been loving my very first Canna with Mina Lobata vine, annual Butterfly Weed, Verbena Bonariensis, a violet Cleome and a few other things you can't see in the photos, such as Abutilon Red, a orange Hibiscus, and the daylily Mauna Loa.
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Hi, crocosmia MN-- I just wanted to say I love your cannas in combination with other garden plants. One of the most attractive uses of cannas in the garden I've seen!

And I love your website photos, too! What great garden projects you have going around your home! And travel photos, too!

Now I am wondering where your garden is located and I'm guessing the Pacific Northwest. Am I at all correct about that? I wonder if some of your canna combination and other ideas would work here in Ohio!