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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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:woohoonaner:

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'

:bananarow:

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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! :(





~JaNan

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I brought a few cannas in, and this one is in the foyer taken with the sunshine coming in through the window:







~JaNan

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If you couldn't tell I love the leaves as much as I love the blossoms. More canna leaf detail:

Stuttgart - This ones name is 'Little Mo' :)


Stuttgart


Pink Sunburst - I have nick named this one my 'Pink Valentine'! :o


These cannas have come to me from the sweetheart members here on Bananas.org :shareluvnana:

Thank you very much! ~JaNan

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Mitch- I'd really love to know the name of the pink one (1st pic). It's outstanding!

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Great Photos! Mine are all dormant now.:0517: But I don't have a collection as nice as yours.

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Thanks Dean W - maybe we can swap some in the Spring. What kind do you have?

SaltyDad - Taylor or Momoese can correct me if I'm wrong but I think the top pink one with the bluegreen leaves is the one Taylor found online:

~JaNan

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Thanks JaNan. That seems to be it. So beautiful!

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I've lost the tags. There may be some outside still I'll have to check.

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My cannas are waking up from their winter sleep. I am so anxious for them to start blooming! :colorwoot:











~JaNan

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Mine are starting to sprout as well.:woohoonaner:

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:woohoonaner: Mine are too they have been now for awile. I found some of these at home depot I had to have them there called Lucifer

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Still got weeks to go for us in cooler climes, if they survived at all.

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Do you all have a problem with leaf rollers on cannas? They shred mine.

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I donot even know what that is so I guess I donot have that problem. What are leaf rollers ? It sounds bad.

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I have never seen leaf rollers on Canna's. Didn't even knew they existed.
Nevertheless I will keep an eye on my Cannas this year to see if there
are any caterpillars on the leaves.
Mine are all in pots now to give them a headstart and they are pushing
leaves now.

Btw ...I had Leaf Rollers in Roses in the past.

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Yes, they love eating the rolled up leaves. If I find them and the plants are not overly infested I smash them with my fingers.

Luckily we had a cold winter so I would assume they may be less of a problem here this year.

Regards,

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I haven't had any problems with leaf rollers, knock on wood! Here's a few of my little peeps opening up. :blueskirtnaner:

Bengal Tiger


Montana


Wyoming


Tropicana


Unsure of this one at the moment. One of the horses got out and tromped all over some of the flower beds. I will know after it blooms.


:p ~JaNan

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I can't tell if yours is the 'Thai One On' or not, but it's not too unlikely.

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almost everything is growing and I am geting excited about all my new cannas. I had no frost this year so all my cannas made it and now just want to flower. so I have been cuting down anything flowering to get some new growth.
this is the only one I saved becase I have never seen it flower.


this is the banana canna very tall with small red flowers, it did great last year until the summer came then it just looks bad. I hope it does better this year with it more established. this is the third leaf on a new plant.



random collected seeds from az, cali, and hi. about 75 plants cant wait to see what they all are.

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A few cannas from seed

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These are growing really fast!





~JaNan

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Three days growth

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They grow fast from seed. I grew these from seed last year.

What do you fertilize with Jananas?

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Dean we have horses.....so I have all the free horse poop I will ever need. Anything and everything I own has horse manure as fertilizer. You are welcome to some if you want. You'll have to shovel it yourself though!!! I have to do enough of that on my own! :)

~JaNan

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Ha Ha!:ha: Okay, what do they eat, Coastal? I heard Coastal has herbicides in it. But that doesn't look the case with your plants.

I may take you up on some horse manure sometimes. I'll PM you.

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These babies are ready to pop open doin good

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New buds! :woohoonaner:





~JaNan

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Big Canna lover here! Great photos. I'm no expert on cannas but I am very interested in the canna virus that seems so rampant in so many of these plants.

I've done some research on the virus and it looks like many of the plants in these pictures have it. From what I've read canna leaves that are healthy don't have any blemishes on their leaves. Ones like tropicanna, sunburst, etc shouldn't have any green spots either.

Regardless your plants still look great.

I have a rather large collection of cannas myself and I'm concerned about separating the virused plants from the healthy ones to stop the spread. If anyone reading this thread has any more info I'd love to hear it.

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Here are some good pictures and articles concerning Canna Virus:

canna virus - Google Search

Damage can also be due to excessive sunlight, too cold, wind. I personally had a week and a half of 80 degree weather in February followed by near freezing temperatures for equally as long. This will stress and distort newly emerging leaves. Here are some internet quotes:

A low nitrogen level will leave Canna foliage with yellow striata, and slow its growth rate. Phosphurus helps with the transformation of solar energy into chemical energy; proper plant maturation; withstanding stress. Potassium helps in the building of protein, photosynthesis that keeps the foliage a consistent green, and reduction of diseases. As can be deduced from that, deficiencies in theses basic macronutrients can result in unhealthy plants with effects that can be mistaken for Canna virus. Those are only the three primary nutrients required for healthy plant growth, and many others are required in sufficient quantities to provide healthy, vigorous growing conditions.

The virus manifests itself as a crinkled leaf. However if you are 'forcing' your plants into growth using a heat mat, very often the first couple of leaves will be crinkled and distorted. Once the plants are removed from the heat mat normal leaf formation should follow. If you find that the subsequent leaves are distorted, chances are you have a virus.

Comparing your leaf growth that follows will help in determining a plant suspect of virus.

Prevention methods:

To help ensure you don't spread the virus you will need to make sure you sterilize your tools when moving to a different plant. 10% bleach should be fine

When receiving plants from a trade or store, grow them in a container until you are sure they are healthy.

Soaking bulbs in a 5% bleach solution for 15 minutes to kill any viruses before planting.

Cannas get infected the virus will spread to all plants, because the bugs that eat off the infected plant will spread it to the next. When I have a infected plant I dig it up cut off all the bad spots on the root, cut all the black roots dip in a bleach bath, then plant in a separate container and watch it for a year. The next season you can replant in your beds. This has worked for me many times, I am not sure if you should try this (or even trust cannas bought with the virus) but if you do buy some better go ahead and bleach and plant is small pot and watch for a season, all my new plants get dipped in a copper bath before I ever plant them.

(End internet quotes)

~JaNan

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Hey thanks I will try that bleach thing.

I'll try to post some pics once some of my plants get going.