I cut down my Cannas, don't know if i should have?

The flowers where all dying off, so i cut the stalk down to the first leaf below a few weeks back.

Since doing so, it hasn't produced a new stalk, but both are growing superbly, with lots of new leaves etc....

Did i make a total faux pas by doing this? ( it's the first time i've had Cannas)
thanks.

 

Should be fine, new flower stalks will be formed on the [end of the] new growth. Just takes a little while for the leaves to open ... and then the flowering stalk to form.

 

Agree with Kristen, they'll be fine, removing the spent flower stalk will also let them put more energy into producing more growth rather than seed so your plants should be a bit bigger when they flower again later in the summer

 

A quote from Keith Hayward of Hart's Cannas....................

"The first common error that many people make with cannas is deadheading. You should definitely not deadhead a canna. These beauties will flower profusely from July until the frosts as long as you sit on your secateurs. This is because the new flowering shoot comes up within the dead flower and, a month or so later, will produce more flowers. Some flower stems will produce four lots of flowers – unless, of course, you cut them off."

The full article can be found here.

 

Just had a look, there's a few more spikes growing, with buds already!

Looks like Bilbo and Kristen where correct. They have grown a lot in the 3 weeks too!

 

I'm growing some of OxfordNick's Cannas from the seed parcel. They are growing well , do they flower in the first year?

 

If you started them early enough then ... probably

 

I usually cut off just the dead bit, where the flowers were, often if you look closely you can see a new flower stem developing at the base of the old one above the top leaves and from the bract which the original flower came from.
I find some varieties are better at doing this than others, but most hybrids have at least two flower stems , one after the other, from the same point.

 

I just pull off the individual flower (petals) that have finished, to "tidy it up a bit"