CANNA - 2017

I'd call it graceful and classy!

Mostly just Phostrogen. Bloody things need cutting out of ten inch pots after their first season. They push great big bumps into the sides of placcy pots

 

Very pretty @longk! Is it a mixed bag when you grow canna from seed? (some good, some bad?)

 

Hi,Thanks for the thread @ARMANDII,This will hopefully get my butt in gear! ive not started any off yet from seed,ive got Omega.Tuerckheimii and some others i need to dig out of the seed sack.
Im hoping whats in the ground re sprouts too,Ehemanii & Musas,also a few in pots caribbean sunsets,rose quartz & Australis...also my cleopatra,that nearly made it to its flower opening last yr @pete x

 

Here are some C.altenstienii seedlings three weeks after scarifying..............

 

They look like they are going to big leafed i got some altenstienii seed from Bilbo i had forgot about,im off work tomo so im going to get started finally,ive also ordered 30 Glauca seed from Karchesky

 

Yup! Banana leaves and up to two and a half metres tall

That's a beautiful species. They grow it in the pond in the Lily House at Oxfords Botanic Gardens.

 

I haven't grown Cannas for years so am trying these.
Sent for six rhizomes from Holland from a company called Farmergracy ,delivery March 1st.
3 of Rose Futurity.........3 of Reine Charlotte.

That is my buy on a whim for 2017.

 

I've 'attacked' my canna seed today and several varieties in soak, C.altensteinii, C.speciosa, C.brasiliensis, C.lambata, C.musifoilia Grande and some mixed hybrids

 

I still name Altensteinii as my favourite, with lots of feed and tlc, 12ft+ is possible in one year from seed if sown early, a few years ago I got one plant to clump up to about 3ft across and stand at 11ft 6ins and flowering by the end of September

 

Started Jan 20th @longk 's canna paniculata. Do I wait for roots to hit the bottom before potting on?


(Aspodeline lutea has poked up behind too )