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Fishman...wow, that looks just great. How did you do the stone walkways? Something I think I'd like to add from the deck to the horseshoe pit!

To everyone that asked....let me know when you're in town. Any reason for a beer is OK with me!

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THANKYOU, Salty dad and nucci60! my wife says they're King Humbert cannas, I remember the tags saying as such, but I found others that look very similar to them as well. My wife walks around calling them tropicana cannas but I think that's what some people just call all cannas...RIGHT? I actually have one of another type that standing alone between two bananas. My wife says that's also a king humbert, just a different color variety- which would lead me to believe FLOWER color. BUT the leaves are just green while all the others are wonderfully striped in yellow. I don't know.

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The walkways were actually made using a mold I bought. I found it at Home Depot. It's made by a concrete company ....Quickrete I think. I bought it YEARS ago knowing someday....

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Fishman- Here is a pic of Yellow King Humbert that has naturalized from 6 bulbs to over 50 in 4 years. The leaves are green with a faint lining if you look close. The flower is actually yellow and orange. I understand the Red King Humbert has bicolored leaves.



I also have a Phaison, also called Tropicanna. It has gorgeously striped leaves and an electric orange flower.



Yours actually look more like Tropicana to me. The Humberts have a distinct yellow border around the orange.

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HEY, thanks for your help, I think your right! I always thought my wife was nuts calling them tropicana cannas! (It sounds goofy) I think that the row I have on the left and in my retaining wall area is in fact that. And the ONE we were able to grow from a bulb on the right is the King humbert because I know some type of canna we bought was called the humbert, plus that has the green leaves, no stripes. I think the flowers look like that but i'm taking a second look to be sure. Thanks again.

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Just took a few pics this evening of the back and thought I would post a few pics and then link to the rest... Hope everyone enjoys...











Here is the link to the rest of the pics...

randy4ut/2008 New temporary pics - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

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Randy!! Great pics, Thanks, your yard Rules, :lurk: :bananas_b

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Thanks for the pix Randy. Beautiful. Does everyone on this board have a pool?? I'm feeling cheap with just a little ol' pond.

edit- BTW, my yard over the years can be seen at my Flickr site:

flickr.com/photos/saltydad/

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Of course we do!

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ROTFLMAO!

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i dont have a pool or a pond......just a bucket with water in it...lol.

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'Phaison' and 'Tropicana' are the same plant. The yellow and green striped canna in your pictures looks like 'Bengal Tiger' canna, also sometimes called Canna praecox. I believe that I have seen it referred to as 'Tropicanna Gold' before as well. Very nice pictures!

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Thanks for the compliment!
While looking yesterday I stumbled upon pictures of Bengal Tiger cannas and thought they looked just like mine as well. Now I'm going to ask my wife if maybe the tags on the plants (if that was correct) said Tropicana Gold, which was the plant first mentioned by Nucci60.
I started reading up on canna care right after my wife brought them home.
Overall I guess It doesn't matter what type I've actually got as long as I take care of them. BUT it is nice to know when people ask me. However I guess it wouldn't be hard for someone to find some that look at least pretty darn close. If not exactly them, Bengals sure are close!

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I just love this thread!!
I look forward to everyones's pictures!!
What beautiful beautiful yards I've just seen again for the 25th time!!
Hey maybe that goes in "You might be a banana fiend"!!!! LOL

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Cannas seem to have too many names for one plant. If I'm not mistaken Canna bengal tiger and canna pretoria are one and the same also, and I'm pretty sure that is the type you have, but I think(maybe a new look alike?) they just recently came up with the new name for the same plant- "Tropicanna Gold".

Canna pretoria- http://www.dutchbulbs.com/store/cannas/tallcannas/60090

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Here's a few recent pictures of my yard. I'm a little disappointed in the growth rate of most things this year. It's been a dry one for the most part.


Musa 'Thai Gold' is the taller banana, M. mannii is in the foreground.


Musa laterita is on the left, M. 'Dw. Cavendish' on the right.


My new bed with M. 'Hua Moa', 'Ice 'Cream', and 'Cal. Gold'- you can see my 'Dw. Red' in the background at the corner of the house and my 'Orinoco' is the tall plant on the right in the background.

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Beautiful! Great work Brent. I bet that bed will be full of pups next year, and blooms the year after!

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Just like bananas! Too many names.

Photos look great, Brent!

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Pick of soon to be Jungle! This was taken about a month ago things have since grown tremendously will post updated pix tomorrow! whoo hoo tis is my first house and first attempt at gardening tropical's or any plant for that matter.

I had a gopher for most of the summer that took down two giant bird of paradise and put many of holes in newly soded lawn.
Its been about three weeks gopher free but I think another one has come in.

I have 5 banana all together... and the red musa ??? Are growing so fast I can almost watch them grow. The green ones ???all have about 10 or so pups that are all reaching almost three feet. ....So much fun oh ya and cannas boy do they grow fast as well. Anyway that’s for all the great info

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Buddy- Love the nanas. The palms, bromeliad, mandevilla, etc. all look great together. Your doing a great job for a first or a twenty-first gardener!