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Garden Diary of cannas long flowering perennial plants. What happens and when. Flower guide throughout the year
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Hello 👋🏻 This canna has beautiful pink flowers and white edging at the tips of the flowers. I wish I knew the name of it!
Different varieties of cannas with orange flowers. Coloured and shaded in different types of orange bi coloured and border trimmed cannas.
Cannas for sale in Australia, Canna Lily Plants Post to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland
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Variegated leaves of Canna Stuttgart are amazing, one of the tallest growing cannas and shows the most white color. Super tough tropical gardening plants
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Hi! Saw these beautiful, tall cannas while at Melbourne (Royal Botanic Gardens VIC) and would like to know a little more about them. Thanks and kind regards,
Not many true Dwarf Canna plants. How short these exotic plants grow in size. Heights and named varieties of small growing cannas.
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I have seeds from the attached yellow canna with variegated foliage. Is this Canna indica or Canna generalis and what cultivar is it? Hoping you can tell
I bought these cannas from someone, they meant to be peaches & cream but... my son picked them up for me. I got them and thought wow, they were so big
Beautiful to wake up to.Fussfree plants,this J.D.CABOS flowered for 3 weeks then set fertile seed.This 2nd bloom is smaller than 1st,which was on a 6 ft
i took couple of rhizomes from an 8m drift along west position low fence.unfortunately another person stole from my garden 20 yrs ago.It had a green,maybe
Exciting colored canna Frau Gartenburg with red and yellow bold and bright summer flowers. A real hot looking standout in the garden.
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Beautiful to wake up to fuss free plants, this canna J.D.CABOS flowered for 3 weeks then set fertile seed. This 2nd bloom is smaller than 1st, which was
Easy maintenances, likes better than roses. What you get, is what you get & enjoy it. Would like to nut out viruses cutting leaves off & less watering
I grow my own,as a serious hobby & photo them as a serious,artistic hobby.A double enjoyment of 1 plant,little surprises I call them.Esp great early a.m
Tropical Red Cannas with bright and colorful garden flowers. Shades of red flowers and varieties. Names and pictures
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I own several canna blacks. My favorite right now is Canna Black. Grows up to 6 feet here in California and it blooms the earliest. Sometimes from April
Amazing Canna Yellow King Humbert, Yellow & Red Spotted and Striped Blooms. Unusual Variegated leaves with Dark Brown Stripes.
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Dark foliage and bronze leaf colored red cannas for pots and garden plants
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Different heights of Canna Plants. Will a dwarf plant grow taller. How tall can cannas grow
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Raised in Italy Canna Roma is a heirloom plant with fresh green foliage and bright orange bordered golden yellow garden flowers, common in Australia
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I receive Canna questions frequently and always try to give honest, helpful answers. I have selected some of the best Q and A's about Cannas and posted to Cannas Australia.com
This lovely short (to no more than 36inches in any clump) yellow flowering canna was purchased as 'Lemon Gem'.. BUT, the only info I have ever found refers
Choosing and checking Canna seeds for sowing. Planting the hard black seeds, seed germination how they grow
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Heritage canna J D Cabos over a hundred years old was an award winner at the World’s Fair. Great old heirloom cottage Gardening plants with bronze foliage
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2013 didn't start very well for many people in Australia .. fires, flooding & massive storms .. and some areas are still experiencing terrible fires.
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Cannas are so colourful. Currently my sister’s huge hillside garden is a sea of blue agapanthus, with hedge rows of red oleander, rows of white oleander,
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The best Canna Breeders of old hybrid plants and new exotic looking cannas
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This is Ehemannii I got from you with its beautiful dark pink drooping flowers from the first time it flowered, looking forwards to more flowers this coming
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I love my cannas. I have presidents, and tropicanna (green verigated leaves,yellow-orange flowers) varieties. I also recently bought Tropical Bronze Scarlet.
I love cannas because they are so easy to grow Great flowers and like how the Seed pod grows The Cannas are very strong plant iv watched one canna break
Hi all this is my lovely Canna 'Una'..... as a child I grew up with canna's with my late grandmother growin then in her lovely gardens which is where my
Photos of Pink Cannas In Australia. Different shapes and shades of Pinks. Pictures and descriptions of pink flowering tropical plants
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After recovering from my avoidence of planting yellow flowers & now loving the variety in the yellows of many canna blooms, as I've previously mentioned,
Originally, I didn't like yellow cannas .. guess because it has never been my favourite colour & quite often 'over done' as a colour in gardens to the
Found this one at work growing wild on the side of the footpath Raelene's Reply: This is a nice find of the old canna Yellow King Humbert, with its two
How to choose Canna Lily Seeds for growing new garden cannas. Pick and plant those with good formation with an embryo to start growing. Get the best seed for high germination rate.
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How canna garden seeds are produced after pollination. Pictures of the different stages from the white developing seeds through to ready for harvest.
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Exotic plants with variegated foliage are the Cannas with colourful striped bright leaves. Description and pictures of these colourful garden plants.
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Ideas for Growing Cannas. Where to Plant. What position is best. Sun or Shade for these tropicals. Ideal for backyard ponds and amongst cottage gardens
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What is a Canna Lily are Cannas a true Lilies. What do you know these garden plants as. What is the correct name
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As sold in 1896 Canna Flamingo. Solid crimson without a spot or blemish, has the true Gladiolus form found in no other cannas.
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Long narrow leaves on canna Glauca, Blue green glaucous color. Pictures and description of this unusual tropical wetland plant used in breeding aquatic cannas.
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Well, it was I.D'd as the latter, but I have learned that it is correctly named 'Canna Frau Gartenburg' .. never mind, it's ONE of my 'faves'! It grew
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Gardening with yellow cannas plus the many different tones of soft and rich yellow for the garden
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