A garden book told me that cutting old, dull Tropicana Canna leaves off will provoke new growth. So I bid goodbye to the leaves with grasshopper holes and those whose stripes had faded. Now it has an abundance of new red and gold striped leaves! None seem hurt by the cold weather as long as they were covered.
The vendor I bought the canna from said that it will “die back” but to keep watering it through the winter and it will grow again in the spring—hers have for years. I think though that when it looks like the cold will triumph, I’ll find a place for the striped beauty indoors.
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