Nearly flowering cannas!

2 of my 4 cannas have buds on! Very exciting after all the lovely pictures here. Our local park has beautiful maroon/ red mottled leaf ones with red flowers, I would like some of those next year, anyone got them?

 

Nice one Liz, yes they flower quite late without the sun on their backs all day and lots of food. :D

 

I love cannas I have lots of them and they should flower to the end of oct.

 

I took them out of full sun as they were wilting and I thought they might break- they had a very late start as slugs ate them to the soil when they were about 3" high. Have been feeding them with chicken manure as you [?] suggested. One is still a bit chewed but I hope the smaller ones will flower.

 

Mine appear to have finished flowering, only had three ... unless a few more decide to come! Quite disappointing actually. I'm going to move mine in the Autumn. I've collected the seeds, although I've never attempted them from seed before. I have Brilliant, bright green leaves and clear red flowers ... very common here!

 

Liz, they can drink and eat for england, they just adjust their size and flowering accordingly it seems. If you nurture them you can get some absolute whoppers. :D I had a beautiful almost purple one which I have 1 last seed for which is called Fatamorgana. I am too nervous to sow it as it doesn't seem to be widely available so much now as I think the national collection and their surrounding supporters got hit hard by canna virus, in part because of their new found popularity. :(