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Cannas Garden Diary of Australian Canna Plants

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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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My favorite pink canna

Hello 👋🏻 This canna has beautiful pink flowers and white edging at the tips of the flowers. I wish I knew the name of it!

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Spectacular Garden Canna Annjee

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Drooling with deep pink and cream the beautiful Canna Annjee

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Flowering Cannas with Orange Flowers

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Different varieties of cannas with orange flowers. Coloured and shaded in different types of orange bi coloured and border trimmed cannas.

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Tropical Cannas for Sale Vibrant Garden Plants

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Cannas for sale in Australia, Canna Lily Plants Post to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland

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Exotic Canna Stuttgart Plants with Tropical White Variegated Foliage

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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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Royal Botanic Gardens VIC

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,

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Growing Dwarf Canna Plants Perfect for Pots or Small Flower Gardens

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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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What cultivar is this Canna?

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

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Cannagle Cannas

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Cannagle Cannas by Glen

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Canna Virus in Australia

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Pictures of Canna Virus in Plants

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I thought it was alfred Cole?

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

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CANNAS at WINDOWS

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

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best pink canna

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

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Bright Canna Frau Gartenburg With Hot Tropical Flowers

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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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CANNAS at WINDOWS

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

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Dancing Wasp

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

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PHOTOGRAPHS

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

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Gardening with Red Cannas the Different Types of Red Tropical Flowers

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Tropical Red Cannas with bright and colorful garden flowers. Shades of red flowers and varieties. Names and pictures

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Canna Black

My backyard favorite Canna Lily

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

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Heirloom Canna Yellow King Humbert, Variegated Flowers & Leaves

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Amazing Canna Yellow King Humbert, Yellow & Red Spotted and Striped Blooms. Unusual Variegated leaves with Dark Brown Stripes.

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Bronze Leaf Colored Red Cannas as Foliage Plants in the Graden Design

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Dark foliage and bronze leaf colored red cannas for pots and garden plants

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Height of Canna Plants Short Medium Tall and Giant Growing Cannas

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Different heights of Canna Plants. Will a dwarf plant grow taller. How tall can cannas grow

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Old Canna Roma is a Easy to Grow Tall Growing Tropical Plant

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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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Reader Canna Questions and Aswers

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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

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What Dwarf Yellow Canna is this?

Blooms from my plant last year.

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

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How Canna Seeds Develop and Grow from Pollination to Harvest

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Choosing and checking Canna seeds for sowing. Planting the hard black seeds, seed germination how they grow

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Canna J D Cabos Heirloom Tropical Gardening Plants still growing

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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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CANNA 'SALMON WATSONIA' .. AFTER THE HAIL STORMS

A photo taken today, 20th Feb. 2013

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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My amazing sister and her ever expanding garden.

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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Old Canna Breeders of These Tough Tropical Garden Plants

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The best Canna Breeders of old hybrid plants and new exotic looking cannas

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Special canna with pink flowers that hang down its Ehemannii.

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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Privacy in the city

I love my cannas. I have presidents, and tropicanna (green verigated leaves,yellow-orange flowers) varieties. I also recently bought Tropical Bronze Scarlet.

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I LOVE CANNAS

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

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My Lovely Canna 'Una'

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

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Gallery of Pink Cannas All the Shades of Pink Colored Garden Flowers

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Photos of Pink Cannas In Australia. Different shapes and shades of Pinks. Pictures and descriptions of pink flowering tropical plants

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My 'Love Child' Surprise!

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,

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WHO IS THIS SHORT LADY?

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

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Found growing wild in Indonesia

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

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Check Canna Lily Seeds first before preparing and sowing

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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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Developing Canna Garden Seeds, Ready to Collect when they are Black

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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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Variegated Foliage Cannas a Range of Stripes and Block Colours on Large Leaves

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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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Cannas Australia Sitemap

Use the Sitemap to find every page listed on Cannas Australia

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Tips for Growing Cannas Where to Plant For that Exotic Garden Look

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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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The Canna Lily and Why These Plants are Called This Name

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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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Sensational Old Canna Flamingo raised in 1895 by Dingee and Conard.

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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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Canna Glauca is a Yellow Flowering Species Originating from America

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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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Canna 'Frau Gartenburg' aka Canna 'Garton Baudie'

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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Color Shades of Yellow Cannas as Bright Colorful Garden Plants

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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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