Recognize This Flower?

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Does anyone recognize the red flower in this picture? It comes in yellow too and is a common garden flower here . Locally it's called "Achira" but that name doesn't pull up the right plant in searches in Spanish or English.

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[+1] - Phoenix32890 - 12/31/2004[b][color=green]This it???[/color][/b] http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/achira.htm
[+1] - Noddy24 - 12/31/2004Good for you, Phoenix.
[+1] - Francis - 12/31/2004see here a collection of photos of Canna : [URL=http://jardihaie.free.fr/photos/canna.htm]Canna[/URL]
[+1] - JPB - 12/31/2004I was thinking canna too. I grew it for the first time last summer. It was magnificent. I didn't pull it out in time to save it from the frost and it's mostly grown here in zone 6 as an annual....
[+1] - Pitter - 12/31/2004Yes Phoenix thanks that looks like it all right and native to South America. I guess I just didn't pull up a convincing picture of it in my search. Much obliged.
[+1] - Phoenix32890 - 12/31/2004[b][color=green]Pitter- It's a gorgeous flower. I wonder if it would grow in my neck of the woods?[/color][/b]
[+1] - Pitter - 12/31/2004Jeez I don't know...could be. It seems equally happy down in the hot city, temp in the eighties and up at two thousand meters where the temp is in the sixties. But of course those are constant year...
[+1] - msolga - 12/31/2004recognized it right away, from your photograph, Pitter. Lots of them in Melbourne, Oz gardens. They look great in mass plantings .... and not so wonderful when they stop flowering & die back.
[+1] - flowerlady - 01/05/2005This flower is known as Canna
[+1] - bagzlady - 02/11/2005My MIL always called them (canna's) Flags.

This it???

http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/achira.htm

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Good for you, Phoenix.

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see here a collection of photos of Canna :

Canna

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I was thinking canna too. I grew it for the first time last summer. It was magnificent. I didn't pull it out in time to save it from the frost and it's mostly grown here in zone 6 as an annual. Does anyone here have luck replanting canna bulbs in colder climates?

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Yes Phoenix thanks that looks like it all right and native to South America. I guess I just didn't pull up a convincing picture of it in my search. Much obliged.

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Pitter- It's a gorgeous flower. I wonder if it would grow in my neck of the woods?

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Jeez I don't know...could be. It seems equally happy down in the hot city, temp in the eighties and up at two thousand meters where the temp is in the sixties. But of course those are constant year round temps.

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recognized it right away, from your photograph, Pitter. Lots of them in Melbourne, Oz gardens. They look great in mass plantings .... and not so wonderful when they stop flowering & die back.

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This flower is known as Canna

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My MIL always called them (canna's) Flags.

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J_B wrote:

I was thinking canna too. I grew it for the first time last summer. It was magnificent. I didn't pull it out in time to save it from the frost and it's mostly grown here in zone 6 as an annual. Does anyone here have luck replanting canna bulbs in colder climates?

I have luck with them in zone 5. I dig them up in the fall and lay them out to dry. Then I box em up and put em' in my basement.

Be sure and seperate the tubers....as they do multiply! I usually do a second planting in very early summer, so come early fall, I still have some in bloom. That way the humming birds can stop and feed on them as they are heading south for the winter.

Besides being beautiful, the butterflies and humming birds love them!

They grow beautifully in Ohio. Smile

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They grow beautifully in Arkansas too.

If not mistaken, they come in White and pink also...

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makemeshiver33 wrote:

They grow beautifully in Arkansas too.

If not mistaken, they come in White and pink also...

I'm sure they do! I always plant red for the humming birds, though.

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Brook I've noticed that since I planted five or six original plants there seem to be offshoots. Can I dig those up and replant them elsewhere in my gardens?

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Pitter wrote:

Brook I've noticed that since I planted five or six original plants there seem to be offshoots. Can I dig those up and replant them elsewhere in my gardens?

Well, I'm not real sure to be honest with you. But in order to get them out of the ground you would need to very gently break them away from the main tuber, without distrubing it, yet keep the roots intact on the offshoot. If I were you, I would just leave it be for now. Then when you dig them up in the fall (or dormacy begins) you can seperate the shoots then.

And just think, in the spring.......you'll have alot more to enjoy. Very Happy

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Thank you Brook. Was it Dorothy who said it? Anyway I ain't in Kansas anymore and there is no fall or spring and the "Achiras" as they're called here just keep growing year round. Well I've got lots so I'll just try it. Side note: it turns out the roots were a staple food of the Incas.

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