Amazing, Tracy! I'm sorry about your lost plants, but just wanted to say how much I love the green on your home!

Anne
(p.s., and welcome back!)

Strange weather. Jumped from summer into winter.

I'm sure your cannas will be fine. They are an invasive plant in my yard. They travel by root. I'm always pulling mine out and find shoots sprouting elsewhere.

Edna

Oh my gosh, that is terrible. Earthquakes in Hawaii and early snow in NY. I love the green too!!!!

Sorry that you lost your seeds but dont worry, if you need any of the seeds that I sent, please feel free to take them. Hopefully next year will be better.
We get snow here once in about 10 yrs and I like your "fall"color
Barb

Do you dig your cannas to overwinter the tubers indoors as I do? I wait for hard frosts to kill the top growth before digging, so as long as the ground isn't frozen, yours should be fine.

You remind me that it's time to 'plant' the reflectors so plow-boy doesn't scrape the top off the raised bed near my driveway as he did last year. Lost some prized heucheras :(

Hope some of those lost seeds will self-sow & you'll have lots of baby plants next spring.

Ana

Oh, my. I heard about the storm, but this really brings home the mess it made.

Take an extra packet from mine for starters...

Tracy - just pull your canna rizomes - they will be fine. I have always waited till the first frost kill my cannas and dahlias- it's good, as they put everything to the roots.

There is a french canadian song that I love....:mon pays, c'est n'pas en pays, c'est l'hiver. mon jardin, c'est n'est pas un jardin, c'est le neige.....

My country is not a country, it is winter.
My garden is not a garden, it is the snow.

Pardon me, I have probably screwed the french up big-time. Then again, it became a separatist athem, which it too bad, as well. such a pretty song.

Cheers, Nancy.

Thank you all for cheering me up! This was my first year with cannas so I guess I'm a bit overprotective of them. I'm glad you all think they'll be fine. Unfortunately now our snow has turned to rain. But once it stops later in the week I'll try and get out there to dig them up. And hopefully salvage anything else I can.

Tracy

Tracy,

Since it was a short lived snow, maybe the damage will be minimal to your garden. You might be surprised at what survives.

I'll keep a good thought for you and all western NY gardeners.

Marilyn

Hey Tracy-remember where you got those canna rhizomes from??? well i got lots more!!!!!!!! im deciding how many brugs i wanna save...I think this storm was God's way of telling me enough is enough lol.

Tracy, your cannas, dahlias, and any other bulbs will be fine because the ground isn't frozen yet. I probably won't dig mine out for another week or two. Right now it is SO wet, too wet to dig. When you do dig them out, try to lay them flat to dry for a couple of days, before putting them away. If you put a big wet pile of them away, they may get rot.

Congratulations on your wedding! Any photo sites of that? Hope it was wonderful and best wishes for a fantastic married life.

Thank you Kathy & Brenda. You can tell I'm a newbie to tubers because I'm paranoid that I'm going to kill them! I'm going to try and dig some up Saturday since it's supposed to be nice. Probably just the ones in containers first, because like Brenda said the ground is soooo wet.

Kathy, I'm definitely going to take your advice and start them ALL inside next spring. The cannas I started indoors were spectacular and those that I planted outside when the ground warmed were slow growers.

Tracy

I'm so sorry to hear that! Not to rub it in (Really! I hate it...) but today we were between 85 and 90 degrees with 20 mph winds. Totally sucks. Really yukky. And our normal ~80 % humidity was down at around 15%... really bad recipe for fires! It feels like we're in the height of summer. I want fall. I want full-pot-of-coffee-get-the-scrapbooking-supplies-and-candles-out-weather. Not kids-fighting-mom-b!tching-sweating-like-an-oldie kind of weather.

Amanda 'romando'

Hi Tracy! and everyone.

In NJ- i didnt get snow- but we got frost a few days and it blackened the cannas and dahlias about a week ago now. But they really will be fine! LIke everyone said- the ground isnt actually frozen yet. That's what would do them in!

I plan to take mine out this week or weekend.I too hae been worried about the seed heads i didnt harvest yet. i hope the frost didnt kill them? as long as they are dry they should be ok right? I really want to add to the seed swap and have had zer time to harvest this stuff.

Craziness

How was the WEDDING!?