Gardeners who prize dahlias, cannas and gladiolus are faced with a choice: buy new every year, or dig them up, store them over the winter, and replant them each spring.

Saving cannas from the coming winter after frost blackens their leaves is an autumn ritual for Midwest gardeners. Southern gardeners get to skip this chore, but I don’t envy them. Canna rhizomes ...

Tender perennials such as tuberous begonias, gladioli, cannas, dahlias and elephant ears make beautiful displays of color in our gardens, but they don't survive harsh winters. Their bulbs must be dug ...

Cannas, caladiums, dahlias, gladiolus and tuberous begonias will not survive St. Louis winters out of doors. But, because these plants have specialized underground storage organs such as a tuber, corm ...