Canna
Canna: This bulb or rhizome giant has a very tropical feeling in the border. Split rhizomes in spring and dig up in the fall.
| Canna | Bulb or Rhizome |
|---|---|
| Bloom Time | Late Summer to Fall |
| Light | Full Sun |
| Water | Moist Soil, Rich Garden Soil |
| Diseases | Blight, Leaf Spot, Rust |
| Pests | Caterpillars, Slug, Snails, Spider Mites |
| Propagation | Divide Rhizomes, Seed |
| Color | Red, Yellow, Pink |
| Zones | 7 - 11 |
| Soil pH | 5.5 - 6.5 |
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Canna 'Pink': Beautiful salmon-pink color blooms with lush green foliage. Nothing matches cannas for exotic beauty all season long. Ideal for nearly any sunny spot in your yard. Plant them 2" deep, 18" apart as soon as soil warms in late spring. Water freely in dry weather. Can also be potted and used as a pond plant.
If you are looking for a plant with a tropical-like appearance, then you should consider adding the Canna Bulbs to your landscape border.
These are bold-leafed plants with flag-like flower blooms and colored arrays of flower stems, leaf stems and multi-colored leaves. Many times the foliage is more showy than the flowers themselves.
Leaves come in combinations of orange, yellows and greens that literally glow in the sunlight.
The size of Canna vary widely from towering giants 10 feet tall to dwarf varieties 30 inches in height.
Cannas are usually grown from tuberous roots but some newer varieties can also be raised from seed, with flowering guaranteed for the first year.
Divide rhizomes in early spring and plant inside in pots for early blooms.
Seed is possible but some varieties take several years to reach blooming size.
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Canna 'King City Gold': Nothing matches cannas for exotic beauty all season long. Ideal for nearly any sunny spot in your yard. Plant them 2" deep, 18" apart as soon as soil warms in late spring. Water freely in dry weather. King City Gold has brilliant-yellow blooms over emerald green foliage. The best yellow canna ever!
Cannas love wet conditions so give them plenty of water, rich garden soil or a pond in full sun to grow.
If you live in a zone colder than zone 8 for most cultivars, you will need to dig up your Canna bulbs in the fall and store them in a cool, frost feet dry environment. It is best to bag them is barely moist peat most for the winter duration.
Replant again in the spring and propagate as needed. Follow propagation instruction above.
Cannas can be used easily in the landscape border, where a vivid splash of bloom and foliage color is desired.
Some of the larger varieties can grow up to 10 feet in height and almost as wide, so you need a big area to show these off. Often these giants are used in park and recreation areas where they fill a big area in the border.
Canna are equally at home along the edge of a stream or pond edge as they love to have wet feet.
A destructive mottling virus has threatened canna stock in nurseries across the U.S., so be sure to buy your plants from a reputable source
Canna, Coral Pink Dwarf': These attractive compact cannas grow only 30-36" tall making them just the right size for today's smaller gardens. They're perfect for beds, colorful borders or for a delightful contrast in your perennial plantings.
Blooms late summer through fall. Coral Pink canna's blooms are in blended shades of pink.
Maidengrass:
An excellent grass for the garden or landscape, screening or at water's edge. Striking complement to large-leaved plants or combined with berrying shrubs and evergreens for winter effect. Lovely flower plumes, excellent cut or dried. Clump-forming.
Purple Fountain Grass / Rabo de Gato Morado:
Graceful flower plumes and striking foliage are lovely in the summer landscape. Wonderful paired with bold, vibrant plants for contrast, or with complementary cool pastels and grays. Lovely in containers or mixed plantings. Excellent cut flower.
Speedwell / Verónica:
Beautiful flowers attract hummingbirds to the garden. A lovely addition to summer bouquets, perennial gardens or along a walkway. Particularly stunning in combination with coreopsis, cranesbill, daylily or ornamental grasses.
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Canna 'Yellow': Blooms are a deep yellow with lush green foliage. Nothing matches cannas for exotic beauty all season long. Ideal for nearly any sunny spot in your yard. Plant them 2" deep, 18" apart as soon as soil warms in late spring. Water freely in dry weather. Can also be potted and used as a pond plant.
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Canna, Crimson Dwarf: These attractive compact cannas grow only 30-36" tall making them just the right size for today's smaller gardens. They're perfect for beds, colorful borders or for a delightful contrast in your perennial plantings. Blooms late summer through fall. Crimson canna has bright flashing red flowers.
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Canna President: The President Canna has giant, long-lasting, torch-like blooms that glow as if lighted with an inner fire of dazzling brilliance. The blooms are produced in great profusion from early summer until frost. The President Canna plant has immense flower clusters on husky 4-5 foot stems produce a blazing floral display. Lush giant green leaves add an exotic tropical effect. Heavy 2-3 eye roots.
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Canna, Lenape Tall: Cannas put on one of the most dramatic displays of any flowering plant. Their lush dark leaves give your home a tropical feeling. Immense flower clusters guarantee a blazing tropical display. Grow 3-4' tall. Blooms July to frost. Plant in full sun. Zones 7-11. Lift in colder climates.
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Pretoria canna (Canna 'Pretoria') is a large, lofty variety that flaunts yellow-striped, broad leaves and sizable orange blooms. It grows 6 to 8 feet tall and is hardy in Zones 7-11
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Canna, Journeys End: Cannas put on one of the most dramatic displays of any flowering plant. Their lush dark leaves give your home a tropical feeling. Immense flower clusters guarantee a blazing tropical display. Grow 3-4' tall. Blooms July to frost. Plant in full sun. Zones 7-11. Lift in colder climates.
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Canna, Tall Wyoming: Cannas put on one of the most dramatic displays of any flowering plant. Their lush dark leaves give your home a tropical feeling. Immense flower clusters guarantee a blazing tropical display. This Wyoming variety sports a gorgeous orange bloom and flowers from July through frost.
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Canna, Tall Richard Wallace: Cannas put on one of the most dramatic displays of any flowering plant. Their lush dark leaves give your home a tropical feeling. Immense flower clusters guarantee a blazing tropical display. This Richard Wallace variety sports a gorgeous yellow bloom and flowers from July through frost.
Canna 'Collection': One stunning collection includes 1 each of a red, pink and yellow canna. Three plants in all. Gorgeous planted in mass.
When you order 2 collections you receive six plants and so on.
Water-soluble, quick release fertilizers. Water soluble fertilizers are generally used every two weeks during the growing season or per label instructions
Temperature controlled slow-release fertilizers. Controlled, slow-release fertilizers are worked into the soil usually only once during the growing season or per label directions.
Organic fertilizers such as fish emulsion. For organic fertilizers such as fish emulsion, follow label directions as they may vary per product.
Our preference here at Green Living Made Easy, is of course the Organic Fertilization method. We use either Fish Emulsion or Organic Bone Meal.
Canna 'Dwarf Collection': This dwarf collection includes 3 each of Crimson, Coral Pink and Primrose Yellow cannas.
When you order 2 collections you receive six plants and so on.
Plant bulbs at a depth that is three times their height, and at least 1-1/2 bulb-widths apart.
Once the hole has been dug, work a handful of Bone Meal into the bottom of the hole and then place the bulb in the hole, upright (roots pointing downward).
If you can't detect were the roots are, an easy clue is the pointed more more pointed area is the top of the bulb. If you are still in doubt, just plant them sideways.
Fill in the hole or trench gently and make sure there are not any stones or rocks in the fill. Sort them out if there are. The soil should be free of clumps or clods that would impede growth of the bulb.
Planting bulbs in formal rows hardly ever look good and certainly does not look natural. It looks best to plant the bulbs in natural drifts, as you would see them in the woodlands.
If you have trouble with gophers or squirrels eating your bulbs, try sprinkling red pepper in the holes, covering the bulbs with chicken-wire, surround bulbs with sharp shards of gravel or other substance, or planting rodent-repelling bulbs like Fritillaria nearby.
