My First Canna - Bronze Peach Planted In Ground - July 2022
It isn't much, but I'm going to allow it. Allow what? Allow myself credit for planting a (new to me) tropical in the landscape. That means checking the box on #14 of my 2022 to-do list: Expand my use of tropicals and sub-tropicals in the garden . Historically, I've only utilized Elephant Ear bulbs as tropicals in my containers and a few in the ground. This year, I wiffed on those (indeed a miss), but I did recently plant a tropical in the garden - in one of the beds. Below, you can see the lone Canna - Canova Bronze Peach - that I planted in the backyard in a spot that is visible from the patio and kitchen windows. I was at the orange big box nursery last week picking up a few other annuals for our front yard and back patio and I just took a shot with this peachy canna. I'm thinking that I should have done a few more of these? One seems like it isn't enough - and it is a direct violation of one of the gardening 'mi...