137-Year-Old Cannas

Keeping a family heirloom flowering each year

Today we ’re in Gothenburg , Nebraska , visiting Kristi Kreuscher ’s garden .

Thesecannasoriginated in Germany . My husband ’s great - groovy grandparent bring canna with them when they emigrate from Germany in 1883 . They planted them on both side of their driveway on their farm near DeWitt , Nebraska , and everyone delight them . The kinsfolk has continued to grow them for the past 137 days . About 10 year ago , my sire - in - police asked me if I wanted some of the family cannas . I was n’t even cognizant of their grandness and the fib behind them until then , even though I ’d been in the family for over 20 age . I recite him I ’d take “ a few , ” so he gave me 13bulbs . They reproduce quite well , as we stash away 30 to 35 boxes of them each fall and we ’ve given off hundred of medulla oblongata over the last several years .

We plant the bulbs in two rows in a 75 - foot strip in front of our house . This means reduce them off and thendigging them each yearafter the freeze to put in them in our garage , because they are tropic ( zone 7–10 ) . My babe - in - jurisprudence go in Tampa , so she does n’t ever have to dig her cannas . The judge at our county fair told me that we have really created our own cross , because we ’ve continued to replant our own canna bulb every class . I encounter a “ in force of Show ” awarding at the county fair for my canna blossom two years ago .

The third picture is of our “ rock’n’roll garden , ” which has a fake rock-and-roll that covers our well . It contain a variety of grasses , lilies , geraniums , irises , daylily , and many other flowers . The grandiloquent works in the back on the right side is ablue sour indigo(Baptisia australis , Zones 3–10 ) , which produces shoots of over-embellished flowers in the spring . The seedpods plough morose maroon in the fall .

The other marvelous industrial plant is a down spiderwort , also known as the trinity flower(Tradescantia , Zones 4–9 ) . I really wish originate perennial flush .

The irises and peony in my flowerbeds mostly came from my grandma ’s beds . I have transplanted some of them to cemeteries when the original I she institute years ago no longer grew .

This scene shows our ornamental windmill and a portion of the aboriginal grass area around our house ( mainlylittle bluestem , Schizachyrium scoparium , Zones 3–9 ) . We recently added a strip of wildflowers that dwell ofcoreopsis , genus Rudbeckia , daisies , bobwhite pea , aster , and many more .

A singular peak that I receive from a friend is the star of good hope flower(Ornithogalum saundersiae , Zones 7–10 ) . These develop 4 to 6 feet tall and put out these amazing heyday . In Nebraska , of course of instruction , they must be fag each fall .

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