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Canna Lily Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A tender rhizomatous perennial with bold foliage and summer flowers; rhizomes are lifted and stored over winter in cold areas.

Canna Lily

Canna x generalis

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Sow / plantGrowingFlowering

Guides

Pests and diseases (6)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Rust

Disease

Small raised orange-yellow to red-brown pustules form on both leaf surfaces, then rupture and release powdery spores. Heavy infection yellows the leaves and kills them early.

Root-knot Nematode

Pest

The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up and the roots carry beaded chains of galls of varying size with few fine roots.

Mosaic DiseaseBacterial Bud RotStem RotYellow Mottle

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