Celebrated Johannesburg horticulturist Keith Kirsten has lost the European plant rights to one of his most famous plants, canna tropicanna. The president of the European Union Community Plant Variety ...
Canna “Tropicanna” has huge, paddle-shaped leaves that unfold with tropical colors of orange, yellow and lime green. The flowers are unique and spectacular as well. Courtesy photo The second week of ...
If there’s one group of flowers that knows how to throw a summer party, it’s the Canna lily! Right now they are hitting their straps, and nowhere are they more gorgeous than at the Auckland Botanic ...
Tips on how to dig them up, store them, share them. Send your gardening questions to [email protected]. Cannas, like the spiky Tropicanna canna in the background here, add dramatic foliage, color, and ...
Tall and exotic in profile Canna ‘Tropicanna’ unfurls each new leaf with a show of burgundy stripes fanning off a chartreuse center vein. Quickly the stripes evolve in coloration, changing from ...
Gardening in North Texas means we deal with the challenges of hot weather and limited water resources. But we still love to have a bit of the tropics in our gardens, and that's where canna lily plants ...
These big tropical beauties are real showoffs, boasting lush, broad-leafed foliage and dramatic flowers on towering, thick stems. They make a strong statement mass-planted on their own, as backdrops ...
I have a question about some 'Tropicanna' cannas that I purchased and planted last spring. They were so gorgeous all summer. We dug up the rhizomes as the label instructed and put them in a bucket in ...
Things have changed with cannas, and you will be surprised to have this tropical flower giving you a touch of island life Try a stunning combinations of salmon-colored cannas and purple monarda or bee ...
This season has been a wake-up call for me: Cannas are still among the most treasured flowers in the garden. I love gingers and occasionally I will fret with heliconia or bird of paradise, but ...