Canna Lovers Unite!
 

Hey All! I love cannas and I know a lot of you out there do too! How about some pictures of cannas?

Cheryl brought me a beautiful Pink Sunburst when we met up the other day to celebrate our birthdays.



My daughter brought me a Dr. Ingrid also for my birthday:





These are Intrigue and Journey's End with the sun coming through them.



Intrigue, Journey's End and Pink Sunburst



OK come on everyone. Show your cannas!!!! :ha:

~JaNan

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I'm wild about cannas!

Mine are showing signs of winter lethargy, after a showy summer extravaganza of colors.

My newly planted Cleopatra tubers and Journey's End are DRENCHED from rain from 2 nights ago.

I've pulled them under my covered patio. I hope they make it through the cold.

The Cleopatras are so beautiful--it's my signature image. The foliage is just as striking, brilliant green with wide burgundy stripes.

Pink sunbursts are really pretty. I haven't seen any at my Home Depots here.

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Here are more of my cannas:

This one is called Orange Beauty



These are my baby Tropicana Canna





and this one is my Journey's End - it was just a corm a few weeks ago! :ha:



~JaNan

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Oh Krikey....I have to dig mine up for the Winter

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I love cannas in fact cannas are what got me into bananas
Here is a unknown canna I have I will post more pictures maybe tomorrow

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[/quote]and this one is my Journey's End - it was just a corm a few weeks ago! :ha:



~JaNan[/quote]

Oh, man, I just planted 2 of these. I hope they look like this in a few weeks.

They're sitting in wet and cold dirt right now; I just might have to get out my hair dryer and give them a blowout. :)

And the Cleopatras ... this is my holy grail of cannas. Stunning! Provided, of course, I don't give it rot.

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Here's two shots of Dr. Ingrid with today's rain:





What are yours Mitchel? They are beautiful! (I know the Stuttgart leaf - are any the flower for it?)

~JaNan

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Yes the second picture with the blue sky is Stuttgart. Taylor figured out what the pink ones with blue leaves are called but I can't remember what he told me. The ruffly looking one is Pink Futurity and the other one with the water drops is an unknown that looks similar but is much more striking than the Pink Futurity.

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Great pictures, everybody! I love Cannas, too. Wish I had more types. :)

I found it online called Canna glauca 'Erebus' but Plant Delights also has it called Canna 'Thai One On'.

Two sources:
PlantFiles: Detailed information on Aquatic Canna Lily Canna glauca 'Erebus'
PDN -- Canna 'Thai One On'

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It appears you'll need to add me to the list :D! I have exactly one banana plant but my brother's canna collection is rapidly increasing :ha:! In fact it was cannas that led me to my recent desire to grow banana plants. I love big leaf plants. Until this past summer, I thought there was exactly one species of banana and had never seen a banana flower.
The cold has knocked back the taller cannas (except the orange ones), but the dwarfs are still green and blooming. The orange cannas were mislabeled so there's no way of knowing what variety they are. But I will be happy to add photos of the Lipstick and Picasso cannas to this post when I get the time.
BTW, the Pink Sunburst, Phaison, Erebus, & Cleopatra are definitely on my list for next spring :D! Thanx for sharing all those beautiful photos!
Note: The photos I show will be of cannas my brother grew.

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Guys and gals - they are all just gorgeous! Last time I went to South Africa I took some seed of Canna Durban to my brother who lives in Durban. Here we only have the basic red/yellow flowers and the leaf-rollers make such a mess of them that I took them out. If they had been something special I would have made an effort to protect them.

My gardeners son gave me a species canna in a pot as a thank you, which hasn't flowered yet - but the leaf-rollers seem to leave it alone.

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:) More Canna pictures:

Journey's End Bloom


Tropicana Canna already Making Babies


Another Tropicana Canna


Tropicana Gold

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This canna is called Watermelon. The leaves are variegated and so are the buds. The blooms are watermelon colored.





~JaNan

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I currently have Yellow King Humbert, Tropicana, Stuttgart, Pretoria, Philadelphia, Red Lined. I need to spend more time on these gorgeous plants.

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This one is Wyoming - tall darkly colored leaves with orange/red orange blossoms:







~JaNan

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This is HOT HOT Pink!





~JaNan

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I've started some babies from seeds, don't know what they'll turn out to be . They're up about 2-4 inches tall and some have red leaves and some have green leaves. We had seeds mixed up from a mix of cannas, some of the plants were cleopatra, some were red king humbert, some were pretoria/bengal tiger, some were intrigue, and some were journey's end. I guess they'll turn out to be something cool anyway. a few of them have red leaves so at least I know they're the red king humberts or at least a cross of them.
I'm also growing some hostas from seeds. I like seed growing except for with bananas! I don't have patience for that very well..

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Here are some Cannas in the snow (at my sister's in Houston). :coldbanana:



~JaNan

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:coldbanana: Here are a couple more shots of the cannas in the Houston snow at my sister's. Poor, poor cannas! :vbseo_replace_urls("(





~JaNan