I've got some red ones established in a space by the gravel drive. They aren't up and it may be the fact we acquired another vehicle and tires are rolling over them. I do have some yellow ones in a bed that is partial shade and they have emerged. They are well established there and the dirt is loose. I'd wait at least another week. Let the rain and the warm temps work on them. Do you have them mulched? Anything that would hold in warmth would help them along.

Yeah I put cedar mulch on them, and about half of them are in a narrow bed between the driveway and concrete patio, so they should be getting plenty warm. I'll give them another week like you suggested. Thanks!

My yellow cannas have been up for several weeks---they actually were sprouting before the last snowfall so I threw leaves over them and they were fine. They've been growing in the same spot about 12 years and are very well established. My red cannas and orange cannas just emerged about 10 days ago, but they are in containers so they are colder at night. I'm a lot further south than you are though.

Usually in spring, new cannas will emerge within about 3 or 4 weeks depending on the soil and air temperatures at that time. I've never had new cannas not emerge....so patience pays off. One year I dug up some cannas in the autumn that were spreading out into a path and needed to be moved. I had them in a wheelbarrow and forgot about them. The wheelbarrow tipped over, the cannas spilled onto the ground and I forgot about them. They spent the whole winter lying on the ground beneath the pecan tree. I "remembered" them in the spring when they sprouted and began growing. Since mine spouted after a winter on top of the soil surface with no protection, I imagine your purchased ones will sprout just fine.

Haha, the wheelbarrow story is amazing! The nursery selling them made a big fuss about being careful not to let the rhizomes get too warm/cold or dry. It's good to know that they're not that fussy or fragile! It's also good to hear that Paula's are getting through the winters fine in the ground. Everything I've read makes it sound like we're the limit of where they're cold hardy here in OKC/Norman.

Miraje - the story behind my ones that are up is really funny. They came from my kids' dad's gramma...in Perkins...over 25 years ago. They're yellow and I had starts from her way back when. After the divorce, there were things I dug and took with me from place to place and these seemed to always somehow follow ever close. I thought 9 years ago when I dug hostas that there was NO WAY those Evans Canna's were gonna follow me again. They were on the other side of brick retaining wall...guess what? Yep. Gramma Evans Canna's are sticking with me longer than her grandson. I've told both my daughters that they simply MUST get a home of their own because Gramma Evans and her cannas aren't going to be happy until they do. True story. =)

lol, Paula and Dawn. Miraje, I have a few poking their heads up. I'm In OKC .

ive got cannas of all colors up everywhere. Canna Australia has come back for the last 2 years so its seems to be just as hardy as the common reds and yellows which is awesome! My musa basjoo bananas are up also.

I got an equal mix of Canna 'Wyoming', 'Black Knight', 'Burning Ember', and 'Red King Humbert', and they're all planted around the perimeter of our pool in the backyard. The pictures of the foliage on those are gorgeous, so I'm really looking forward to them popping up! I almost got 'Australia', but I wasn't sure I had a good spot for a bunch of really tall ones.

up but really only about 6-10" tall at this point. Edmond.

miraje, my australia only get to about 5 1/2 to 6' and thats the flower height. The foliage is awesome.

Mine that were planted 2-3 weeks ago have not come up, either. I will forget where they are planted pretty soon! lol

Yep, they're up, and have been for about 2 weeks...but 2 or 3 weeks after planting isn't long enough to expect them to be up as cool as this year has been. Have patience!

That wasn't my only wheelbarrow accident. One year (it must have been a drought year because otherwise fires don't interfere with the onion harvest) I had the last of the onion harvest in a wheelbarrow, convenient parked in the shade of (you guessed it) the pecan tree. I was going to push it across to the yard to the garage so I could spread out the onions to cure on a table. We left to go to a fire, I got busy, apparently the wheelbarrow got tipped over and we had a repeat of the canna incident. I noticed onions there when they sprouted in January or February, murmured "that's odd" and forgot about it until they started blooming. Normally I'd miss the onion harvest and go hunt it down, but we had way too many onions that year and I was gone to fires a lot.

Ironically, the wheelbarrow-planted onions bloomed right in front of the wheelbarrow-planted cannas the following year. I think the wheelbarrow has become a pretty good gardener, but nowadays I park it in the driveway when it has stuff in it, which forces me to move it to wherever the stuff in it needs to go....or the driveway is simply impassable.

Harriet, When I plant something underground and think there's a chance that I'll forget it is there, I stick a bamboo skewer in the soil right above it. Once the plant emerges above the soil line, I remove the skewer. Since I started doing that, I haven't accidentally dug up a bulb, corm, tuber or root in ages.

Do wheelbarrows fall over that easily or is that like some kind of cosmic coincidence? Or a hungry deer?

Well from what she says, it was left there long term...and certainly a wind could overturn it...what with those feather weight onions in it :)

So four of the 16 cannas finally decided to show their faces yesterday. I'm still waiting on the rest, but it's a start! :D