We bought this Canna at a garage sale without an ID. Bernie likes to have names but the variegated leaves won out over being nameless. We posted these pictures on the Hummingbird Forum and was told it is a Stuttgart.
While doing a search to confirm the ID we found a post on this forum, we read it and others. A couple asked about Stuttgart and one about cannas in ponds and planting media so we decided to post.
We bought this plant in a gallon pot with pea gravel and put it in the pond on a shelf a foot down with the top of the pot about 4" under water. We have another type of canna planted the same way. It is pink flowers behind Bernie at the other end of the pond. It is a smaller variaty and hasn't got as tall. Both were sold as pond plants so we don't know if this works with all varieties.
We live in an area where only the surface of the pond freezes and we leave them in the pond over winter. We just cut off the stalks near the water after the tops die from frost or freezing. At this time you can no longer see the pots. The rhizome is a large mass around the pot just in the water.
The pond level is just below the top of the wall and the bottom of the pot is just above Bernie's feet. The plant is 10' tall from the top of the pot.
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