I have several colors of Watsonia to trade for other uncommon bulbs or tubers, or plants with colorful foliage. Colors are: red/orange, pale red, light orange (possibly W. meriana var. bulbillifera), creamy white. Each color would be labeled so you would not get just a mixed batch. I'm looking for NAMED cannas with colorful foliage and other plants with colorful foliage and/or unusual bulbs. See my trade list for other items I have. If you're interested send me a link to your trade list or a list of plants.

hi sky I am interested in any canna you have with yellow flowers prefer a variegated leaf but green is fine i have ample Robert Kemp and an identical orange flower i do not know the name of,also i have much purple coneflower and rudbeckia. please email to Dhabermehl@iwon.com

My husband found some cannas beside the road, just loosely sitting in plastic 1 gal pots. He put them next to my vegetable garden, still parked in their pots with almost no dirt. Knowing they have a tendency to take over, I refused to plant them but he wouldn't let me throw them away. So they planted themselves. Busted through their plastic pots. They're coming up all over my small vegetable garden. Two years of not so benign neglect and the five plants have multiplied into 20 or so. I had him cut them down Sunday because they're shading the garden too much. Already, two eight-inch shoots have appeared less than two days later. Now, I have to dig out the tubers. These are also the least attractive cannas I've ever seen. Plain green leaves and a few insignificant orange flowers. I've seen some stunning cannas, and these aren't even close. Now I get to see if there's a way to really get rid of them. I know this is sacrilege to many of you, but I need tomatoes and my yard is small!

20 inches sounds just fine for moving. Nice young plants, not top heavy, should transplant nicely. But before you dig, make sure you have a plan. You will know exactly how many plants you have, but also count on some un-developed rhyzomes to be lurking underground. You want those to. So make an estamate of how much you'll have and make sure you have a place to put them, pots to hold them, or whatever. In a pinch, you could lean the whole mess of them against your fence, rhyzome side down, and dump a bag or two of garden soil around them to cover the roots. I have my own opinion of working with these plants. I'm not too particular on transplanting them. Here's my thoughts, on young plants, I don't worry too much about the skinny roots. The canna rhyzome, the thick root not the smaller ones, is filled with water and starch. Just like a tulip bulb. Keep the rhyzome happy and the plant will do just fine. The skinny roots are quick to re-root themselves. Lastly, the main damage you will do is by cutting into the rhyzome with the shovel when you dig them out. So experiment a bit and make sure you find the level below it's safe to dig. Don't worry about knicking a couple, it's bound to happen. In the end, get them all out, clean up the patch, shake your neighbors hand and hope they keep you in mind next time it's time to rid their garden of another great plant species... Good luck!