Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Weekly
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering
Outdoor
Canna
Broad banana-like leaves and scarlet or yellow flowers all summer, as long as it stays hot and damp.
Care Profile
A guide to ensuring your botanical companion thrives.
Origin
Central America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Twice a week
Maintenance
Easy
Seeds as hard as lead
Native to Central America and the Caribbean, it grows wild along ditches and wetlands, in rich, waterlogged ground.
Its black seeds, nearly perfect spheres and extremely hard, served as beads, counting pieces and rattle filling; in English the plant is still called Indian shot.
"Seeds so hard they were strung as beads."
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Styling Tip 01
It likes water
Unlike most full-sun plants it tolerates permanently moist soil, even a pond margin.
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Styling Tip 02
Lift the rhizomes for winter
In cold climates, lift after the first frosts and store dry, above freezing.
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Styling Tip 03
Divide every three years
Clumps exhaust themselves as they thicken: split the rhizomes in spring, keeping two or three buds per piece.
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Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering