Canna 2014

Hey guys any one know a good place to cannas from online I'm really after a Musafolia grande as I have become obsessed with banana plants and would like a couple of them to go with with the bananas

 

Jungle Plants also has Musafoia grande - more expensive than Hart, but Ive had a number of plants from Jungle over the last couple of years & they have always been good. Note that some of their other Cannas are on sale at the moment.

 

This one is easy from seed (no help for this year though)

P.S. A clump of 3 or 5 or so looks a lot more dramatic than "one".

P.P.S. You could buy some cheap Ensete (E. maurellii I suppose). They will grow similarly large leaves (to C. musafolia grande), although perhaps not quite as tall in a single season. You can overwinter them in a frost free conservatory, but you might be able to buy them cheap locally - i.e. just use them as bedding.

 

I live in a hot climate and we get a canna worm which cuts and then rolls back a strip of leaf to make a home. They just do cannas and make a mess of them unless you spray. The problem is the ones growing in my pond. The worms loved the conditions of those, warm winter in the water, the cannas die completely back but the worm seems to be able to overwinter anyway. The problem is I did not want to spray the ones in water so they got devastated.

Do you get these worms in England? I used Spectracide Triazicide Insect killer, first time using it, I used to use carbaryl but thought I would step it up a notch. Seems to work well. I only spray my ornamentals and fruit before it flowers.

 

Canna altensteinii is another with large leaves and I have got it to 10-11ft in a single season from seed, producing a huge clump

 

Ok, so: I've read the WHOLE thread ... and, I've thought - nopey, they don't look like mine

So, now I've had a moment ... mine are not caNNa .. but caLLa

Back to the drawing board, "M"

Thread: dismissed

 

@colne Not sure we have canna worm leaf roller but somethings been chomping holes in my new emerging unrolled leaves

 

Ive put a fine ring of salt around them tonight,sawdust & ash isnt working I'l have no new shoots left on my planted ones soon,ive never seen so many snails this yr! x

 

I've got half a dozen dear little canna seedlings that I've raised from some seed distribution stuff. They look so cute with the water droplets on their tiny leaves! The seeds were years old and I didn't soak or file them, but they've germinated readily enough.

What can I expect from them? Will they flower this year? Any predominant colour to be expected from mixed, presumably open-pollinated seed? Will they be virus-free?

 

Its quite late for a "seedling" ... if you keep them in, pot them on, for a bit - so that they get a wiggle on ... then "maybe" - a good Summer will help of course

My money is on red

It would be a first if they aren't ... definitely no need to worry on that score.

 

I too have about 15 that i set off late,i figured even if no flowers at least they are good foliage plants to have

 

Joolz got to agree with you about snails, its by far the worst year I can remember for them, there's hundreds of the little blighters, they're nibbling things they wouldn't normally bother with too!!!

However I have to say my army of frogs and hedgehogs are keeping the slug population down, not seen so many of them