Canna

There are a number of ways of getting seeds to germinate, but you’re best off doing that indoors because that’s where the environment is better protected. A seed needs to absorb water before it can germinate. After this imbibing of water, biological processes get to work inside the seed and it comes, as it were, … Read more

After nearly thirty years of growing canna I am still surprised by them… unexpected colours, oddly shaped flowers, but today I had another surprise. My Canna iridiflora growing in our hallway is a weather diviner! I looked closely at something shining on a large leaf, and saw that it was a small pool of water. … Read more

(Reprint from Tuesday, 1 January 2008) CANNA VIRUS DISEASE A guest article authored by Keith Hayward, Hart Canna Most gardeners with a particular interest in cannas will by now be well aware of the advancement of canna virus which was unknown not many years ago, and which is now a worldwide epidemic. It has infected … Read more

Back in the day, in 1997 on one of my canna-hunting expeditions I discovered Canna ‘Auguste Ferrier’ growing in the garden of an old farmhouse near La Rochelle, in western France. I negotiated an exchange with the old lady living there, where I was allowed to dig up a bit of the very large clump … Read more

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Dr Anthony Paul in South Africa has posted on Facebook a picture of a 7 petal Canna that he obtained from Kerala in India, called Canna ‘Yellow Cart Wheel’. The name seems most appropriate for this canna revelation, which has 3 inner petals and 4 outer petals. The inner petals are the sexual petals and … Read more

A small Italian Group cultivar; variegated foliage, oval shaped, white margin, spreading habit; round stems, coloured green + purple; spikes of flowers are reflexed, yellow and white, staminodes are large, petals red; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white; tillering is average. Eye-catching variegated leaves, with large butter-yellow … Read more

The Canna News Blog is on its travels again! After the harassment from cannabis enthusiasts to the CannaCyclopedia and CannasDeBeslon web sites, I have closed those sites, and now created the Thor’s Garden site instead, in the hope that the abuse and aggression will now cease. Apparently the name “Canna” now belongs to the drug … Read more

Reprint from Friday, 19 June 2015   After many years of attempting to create a cultivar with 5 petals, instead of the normal 4 petals, Thor Dalebø of Claines Canna has achieved his goal. A new Canna cultivar called Canna ‘Vilamoura’ has been registered with the KAVB and Thor hopes that this cultivar will become … Read more