Apricot Frost Canna Lily Bulbs

If you love Canna lily, but want softer colors, then plant the Apricot Frost Canna Lily. The wonderful flowers are shades of apricot-pink, with touches of yellow and red in the throat of the frilly blooms. A compact plant, the large glossy leaves bring a real touch of the tropics to any garden, and it isn’t as big as old varieties, topping out around 4 feet tall. Fast-growing, it soon becomes a dense clump of stems, each one topped with a big flower cluster. It’s perfect for bringing a tropical look to your summer garden, and a great way to brighten up beds of boring evergreens. Use it among your perennial flowers, out on the lawn as a specimen, or in pots and tubs around your deck and terrace, or beside the pool. A really easy, trouble-free plant to grow, it’s the perfect choice for a new garden or a new gardener, and in colder zones it’s very easy to keep it through the winter months indoors.

• Elegant apricot-pink blooms all through summer and into fall
• A dense clump of broad, upright leaves to 4 feet tall in a season
• Wonderful growing in a pot by the pool, or in planter boxes around a terrace
• Fool-proof and very, very easy to grow successfully
• Overwinter the dormant root pieces indoors, in colder zones

Plant the Apricot Frost Canna Lily in full sun for the best results, and grow it in any well-drained soil, from clay to sand, and acidic to alkaline. In poor soils add compost when planting, and water regularly for the most vigorous growth and maximum flowering. Plants in pots should be fed regularly with liquid fertilizer and kept well-watered. It isn’t eaten by deer or by rabbits, and it doesn’t have any pests or diseases, so it really is a very easy plant to grow, even by complete newbie gardeners. Roots can be left in the ground through winter from zone 7, but in colder zones lift the plants after the first frost, let them dry completely, remove the soil and foliage, and store the roots in paper bags with a little dry peat moss or perlite. Start back into growth in pots indoors in March, planting out once the danger of frost has passed, or plant directly in the garden in April or May.