How Do You Dig Canna Lilies?
Whether excavating your canna lilies to divide the rhizomes, relocate them to a new location, overwinter indoors or remove them from the garden or pond entirely, a few household tools are all that you need to get the job done. Canna lilies dug for storage should be brought up in the late fall or winter when the plant tops have died back from cold. Canna rhizomes excavated for division and/or transplanting should be dug up and replanted in the spring after any threat of frost has passed. Demarcate an excavation area with the tip of your shovel at least 1 foot out from the crown of the plant. For live plant transplant in climates where the canna lily grow year round, expand that diameter to 2 feet. Drive the shovel blade straight down into the soil all around the excavation line you have made. Use your foot to push the blade into the soil if needed. Get to a depth of at least 2 feet for large, mature stands of canna and at least 1 foot deep for younger, smaller plantings. Insert the shov
