{"id":12773,"date":"2015-04-27T00:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T07:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12773"},"modified":"2015-04-27T01:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:56:16","slug":"how-to-grow-canna-ginger-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/how-to-grow-canna-ginger-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow Canna &#8211; Ginger Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/canna-ginger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-567\" title=\"canna-ginger\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/canna-ginger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/canna-ginger.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/canna-ginger-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Canna &#8216;lilies&#8217; are part of the ginger family and not true lilies. This orange flower with distinctive red leaves that are like small banana leaves is very striking in the Autumn bed.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Grow Canna<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grow Cannas from rhizomes<\/strong> that are firm and hard not soft. Plant out in spring.<\/li>\n<li>Cannas perform best if given some protection particularly through early summer.<\/li>\n<li>Whilst they are up to 3 feet tall they can manage without staking although it may be better to be safe than sorry.<\/li>\n<li>The flowers are typically fiery red, orange, or golden yellow or any combination of those colours, and grow on distinctive spikes.<\/li>\n<li>Canna will grow best in full sun in well-drained rich or sandy soil.<\/li>\n<li>Cannas can manage with little moisture so should be OK in summer droughts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Canna x generalis by dinesh_valke, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dinesh_valke\/420093624\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/154\/420093624_c6ea2fef59.jpg\" alt=\"Canna x generalis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Selected Canna Species &amp; Varieties<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Canna &#8216;Bandana of the Everglades, &#8216;Dwarf Texas Canna&#8217; and &#8216;Louisiana Canna&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Broad-leaved Canna&#8217;, &#8216;Iris Canna&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Chinese Canna&#8217;, or &#8216;Cinnabar Canna&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Canna &#8216;Golden Canna&#8217;, Scarlet Canna&#8217;, &#8216;Yellow Canna&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the UK Cannas should be lifted and stored in a frost free place over winter then planted out again in spring. They may survive outside in winter provided they are mulched thickly and planted in free draining soil.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Canna flower  by Mr.Mac2009, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrmac09\/3550069565\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3399\/3550069565_076679ed99.jpg\" alt=\"Canna flower \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Credits<br \/>\nCanna x generalis by dinesh_valke CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nCanna flower by Mr.Mac2009 CC BY-NC 2.0<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grow Canna flowers from rhizomes in a range of bright ginger colours <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}