Canna ~2013~

Sounds a good idea @sal73 I'd definitely be interested in buying some
I never get to buy any of these plants around my way

 

last months they had an entire tray of maurelli for a £1 each , and also canna australis for £1 , the pretoria and phasion are already in flower for £2.99 each , also musa e ventricosum ...I was actually thinking to buy the lot and put on ebay ....

 

Why not Sal, no harm in that, a good way to increase the garden fund

 

Went to wilko's to find some cheap cannas and there still full price.
I tried to get them knocked down put no luck.
I pointed out the pots were drier than gandi's flip flops and needed a good home.
There were 2 canna Australia's and 2 canna Madeira

 

I noticed at our store Mowgley that they had got some more in stock that were just starting to flower and they were full price, where as the ones that had finished after only being in store for about a week were reduced to £2.50

Regarding watering, it funny how one Wilko store differs from another, ours has a proper watering device that looks like a large wheelie bin, which they then 'pump' a handle to build pressure and then water the plants with the attached hose end

 

My Canna 'grand pink' has finally opened today and its a lovely subtle pink, I like a lot

 

today I went to the garden center and there was a table full with bengal tigers , at £2.99 reduced to £1.50 .......they all look infected and the strange thing they where the only one still there ...it seam that peoples have learned and don`t buy anymore

 

Well my Bengal Tigers look fine. They have grown from rhizomes to about 4 ft tall , 6 feet to the flower tips. I put them too close to a little magnolia tree and the flower stems are growing into that ! So they need to move to a new place next season

 

Well its certainly a bumper year for seed, I've collected well over 50 seed now from my single Limbata plant and now have some from my orange/red hybrid plant drying on the window sill before bagging and putting in the fridge, most of the others that flowered earlier in the year all have big fat seed pods on them too

Even Cleopatra has developing seed pods, has anyone managed to collect and grow seed from 'her' as I just wondered whether you would still get variegation in the seedlings or would they revert back to green plants??

On the flowering front, I have Grand Pink in flower, Altensteinii about to flower, along with Musifolia, Russian Red and Australia all in bud Others that have flowered are also repeat flowering

 

Seen pods develop Bilbo, but never had any viable seed inside.

 

No idea which this is it`s a piece I brought back from Cyprus. Starting to open today.

 

looks a bit like "Wyoming" to me.
Is it tall (at least 4ft), with dark leaves?

 

Have Canna australia opened yesterday, a stunning bright red against its dark foliage