Tropical Garden in the Chicago Suburbs July 2024 Update. Flowering Cannas, HUGE Elephant Ears!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Continuous rainstorms in Chicagoland are powering major growth in the garden. The cannas have come in for an extra pop of color!
That’s amazing that you have left those bananas in the ground. Would be great to see a video or two on your winterizing process to save everything as it’s gets cold. Your garden looks really good especially since it’s not even in full sun all day.
I agree…
Wow, incredible job! A tropical garden in Chicago suburbs is lot of works of dig, replant, and restore the pots in the garage. I'm gardening in the Chicago suburbs too, You really a great gardener! Love your garden very much. A new subscriber here!
This is beautiful I use to have lots of tropical plants but they wore me out digging them up in the fall.
Living in central Indiana, I find that my cannas and elephant ears multiple so well that I only dig up some of them just to have enough to plant the next year. Saves time and energy.
Simply stunning. Well done.
That variegated-canna is gorgeous
What a delight! Not the usual😊
Wow I am in southwest suburbs of Chicago and order a couple bananas every year. I see a lot of shoots this year and am going to try to overwinter. I was feeling like it might be a lost cause but you inspired me. You’d garden looks smazing
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing tropical garden in Chicago huge elephant ears ♥♥😎😎🌹
Absolutely stunning
Gorgeous bed! I live in a nw suburb of Chicago too and this combination is refreshing to see!
First time here. Great tropical garden. Good for you doing the unusual. Keep it up. Expand 😊
Ooooh what a BEAUTIFUL Garden!! It’s really inspiring! I’m in the Chicago area, and i would love to better understand what you’re doing to have such big healthy plants. My cannas, which are in pots, keep growing until first frost - I fertilize them with cow manure with peat from Menards when I first put them out in spring, then i usually use miracle grow on them and give them lots of water. I have Royal Hawaiian Elephant ears that I was able to over winter under grow lights, which I was happy about because this year I could not find the dark, deep purple ones in any of the garden centers I go to. I have not had luck with overwintering bananas; my palms look sad…I’m gonna try to learn more from your videos. THANKS!
Wow!! What a beautiful looking tropical setting. I absolutely luv your design concept.
Absolutely beautiful!
Please keep posting your amazing work!
BEAUTIFUL 🤩
Wow 🤩 love it! New subscriber. Greetings from Belmont area.
grazie mille maestro. is beautiful garden
Nice combination
Love Pesche’s !
Beautiful
Such an amazing garden! We’re also out in the Chicago suburbs and we’ve tried planting some tropical plants but they’re a lot of work!
I live in downstate Illinois and I find it hard saving my plants during the winter months..
Fantastic!
I love this...I have one very similar. The inpatients underneath (and shaded) worked well under my Canna's and Elephant ears. But it is a pain to dig them up to save them in fall...as I get older. The other problem is since they are tropical, they do not start to really grow well until June or so (the ground has to warm up enough) and I am too lazy to start them in separate pots.
Wow! You have Banana trees. 👍
Beautiful work! The purple decorative bananas are gorgeous.
I did not dig out some of the canna tubers last winter (North Chicago/SE Evanston area, by the lake) and the three clumps made it through winter and came back. So did two clumps of purple hearts wandering jew (Setcreassa Pallida). Disclosure: I piled a lot of the fall leaves on top of these plants in the flower bed, and the entire flower bed faces south - full sun exposure. I was a bit shocked to see those come back, and both types of plants are doing better than previous years. Ironically, I lost a few cold-hardy perennials, including a Japanese maple that was in a large container.
Last winter was fairly mild though, surely that helped those two tropicals hang on to dear life 'til the hot weather came back. Has anyone else found themselves being able to "overwinter" tropicals outside through Chicago winters?
Looks perfect
Well done sir ! Look into a Thailand Giant elephant ear . They get really huge ! I'm pretty sure they're the biggest ones out there in the world.
First time here 🔥🔥🔥🔥can you pls provide link to variegated canna source
Amazing
Thats AWESOME. I can't get my basjoo to survive the winters.
That banana is edible. It’s not the typical banana we buy in the grocery store. It makes a good snack by boiling and frying. We make a good salad out the banana heart and the inner part of banana tree is an ingredient for a fresh and raw egg roll.
How do u winterize them ? Beautiful.
What do you do with your bananas over the winter? Do you just cut them back and put mulch on top? I’m in Naperville and really impressed with your paradise!
🪴Happy Planting🌿
Great garden! What is the gray cut-leaf foliage plant behind the elephant ears? Does it overwinter? Are you zone 6? Would love to hear mor3 about how you overwinter your tropical plants.
Beautiful Banana trees!! Where can I buy a banana plant in the Northwest Suburbs?
Platt Hill in Bloomingdale.
Looks amazing!! Do the elephant ears survive the winters there?
No, you dig them up before the frost. Cut them back and save the tuber by drying it out. Wrap it up in newspaper and keep in cool dry place over the winter. Replant after last frost in spring. If you only have a few you can plant in a pot and move pot indoors over winter in sunny room. Some people overwinter hardy bananas by cutting down to the ground and piling a ton of leaf mulch on top. It sometimes works.
You identified everything but the one I wanted to know what it was.
What is the name of the variegated canna with the 2 color flowerd and or the nursery you mentioned??
So what do you do in winter season??
Beautiful do you plant any canas in the shade
I have several in pots, but I try to keep them in sunnier spots. The more energy they get, the better they flower!
Elephants ears are native to the Midwest are they not?
You mentioned poor soil. Isn't the soil in the NW suburbs "rich" since it used to be fertile farmland? What is your soil time?
What suburb? Ty
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Absolutely beautiful!