I wrote recently about hostas, those garden-foliage
favorites with dull purple flowers, and how dull they are.
Cannas are the opposite of hostas. They are the opposite of
dull and ordinary. They are exciting and unusual.
I first saw them growing alongside my grandmother’s house in
Selleck, Washington, back in the 1960s. I found them unbelievable: five-foot
stalks with blazing crimson flowers, and gorgeous dark-green foliage.
They are huge and dramatic, and what’s the matter with a
little drama in the summertime? They also seem to grow easily; I see them in
sidewalk pots all over the city of Providence.
They always make me smile when I see them. Here, in
Providence’s Wayland Square, merchants put them in pots, and they thrive.
They are the torches of summertime.
Rejoice in them.
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