https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropcials-part-2/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:45:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropcials-part-2/#comment-805 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:08:09 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2516#comment-805 I have found success storing canna rhizomes in flat boxes that grapefruit from Texas is shipped in. they often have a foam pad on the bottom unit and the top and bottom come apart so you can have two separate boxes and they slide easily onto the shelves in my dark, damp, creepy basement that is not useful for much of anything except storing tropicals at temps between 45 and 55 degrees. I generally hose off the soil and let dry for a few days before storing – I get about 98% survival during our zone 5 winter this way.

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