So pretty, I can't wait till mine start blooming!
Horn Farm Cannas Co-Op participants.. how are yours growing?
Me too!. Although Tropical Sunrise is blooming now.
My pretoria are much slower growing than man others. WE are having a big storm right now and my horn farm cannas are taking the brunt of the high winds...gusts up to 61 mph! If there are any left tomorrow, I will take pictures. They were about 2 ft high in my front yard.... I had a 60 + pound potted hibiscus blown into the yard.. just stripped off all but my t-shirt and panties and ran out into the storm to gather my brugs and other plants to pull into safety of the garage.... poor cannas can't come in out of the storm!
Tammie
That's scary, Tammie. Have no fear though, your cannas will bounce back and laugh at having all that rain. Any foliage damage will be replaced with their hardy rhizones. Glad you were able to get to the brugs, though. Wind's a killer on their branches. Hope all is well after the storm.
Take care
Deborah
Pictures!!! DEB! I want to see...lol I wish mine would grow faster, we have had two afternoons that it rained pretty nicely, so everything is looking much better!
It's so nice to see pics of every ones cannas. Mine I'm sorry to say are far behind every one's but they are comming. Because of my shoulder surgery this spring, I was not able to do much and Ric was hard pressed to get everything done. Moving the rest of the dirt pile and getting the cannas in was one of the things that didn't get done as early as I had wanted. The arm is getting better and by next spring I will be ready for another co-op. I think I will need more cannas. Debbie I think you may have created a new interest for me when you sent me those yellow cannas. BTW I think you sent me Morning Glory seeds and they are doing beautiful. Holly
Hey, Janet! Okeydokey, I'll go and take a pic of Tropical Sunrise if the blooms' still there.
Hey there, HollyAnn! Glad your arm is healing! Your potatoe vines you sent me are taking over too!
Ok, bloom is about gone, but here's my Tropical Sunrise.
Tammie, hope you don't mine me showing potatoe vines for Holly on this thread. They really are great with cannas, so I'm not off topic to badly. (?)
Here ya go, Holly, just one spot I found for the sweet potatoe vines.
LOOK at that..just beautiful! You are so good at coordinating things....just come stay with me for a week...lol
Coordinating green colors! LOL
NO!!!! You just do such nice combinations, your place is going to be a paradise when you are done!
Aaahh shucks, "kicking foot sideways with head bowed down" Thanks Ms. BH&G!
You are too funny!
I agree with Janet, Looks really good.
I bet the Marguerite would look great in front of the bronze colored foilage too...really make them pop!!! Got to get me some more of those...lol
I just got home from shopping... and guess what I just bought to put under my cannas?..... sweet potato vines! Great minds work together. I got the dark purple ones.. that is all they had anyway. LOL
Tammie
LOL that is what I thought would look good together though opposites, lol The bronze vines and the Green cannas...lol Yep, great minds....isn't that funny!
OK, here they are. Hope you can see the cannas from all the other stuff. Before the cannas started coming up, I tossed some zinnia seeds in there... they just started blooming a few days ago. The front part of the area has some small annuals planted to add some color and my lavenders are blooming like crazy. I also have a stray tomato plant growing... did not have the heart to pull it up when I discovered it growing. Must have been from my compost bin stuff. LOL This area is about 7x 7 ft ... all came from horn except the tropicanna in the center.. it came from another place in the yard. All are doing well except my City of Portland which is now about 2" high..
Tammie
...oops, I was standing behind the bed looking out toward the street when I took the pic.. the tropicanna is at the back from this viewpoint and you really can't see the smaller plants in the front.. the zinnias are taking over! LOL
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Looking GOOD!
Happy Birthday Tammie!. Hope you will be able to get out and enjoy your gardens today after your storming weather you've had. Eat your fill of cake and ice cream!
Deborah
Happy Birthday! Have a Great One!!!
Janet
I was able to enjoy them a little before it got dark. Cannas blooming everywhere.. can't wait for my horn farm ones to get big enough to bloom.
Tammie
Tammie, They look great.
I probably planted mine too close, will have to adjust them next year.
Yellow King Humbert
Red Dazzler
Chris, those look great, my red dazzler is my first one to bloom too!
From the Horn cannas, my first to bloom is Florence Vaughn.
Deborah
OK mine turn
Cleopatra was first follow close by President... but then Cleo continued on to be a show stopper and is still going strong
President first:
and just 2 of Cloepatra 2 days apart
cleopatra close up
My cleo just started blooming yesterday.. will post pic later... I planted mine close also... they will just have to fight it out. Each has about 2 square feet to grow in. LOL
Tammie
Those are beauties! Cleo is one of my favs!
Okay, guys and gals, I am sure there are more blooming...I want to see them! I have one or two I will pictures of them and post later! Where are those pictures? LOL
Well lets just say I have a jungle going on here. All the cannas I got in the co-op along with flooding rains make them go nuts! I need a new camera! Now that we are drying out some I really hate to see my water bill for the next few months to keep them looking this good. However those darn weeds are going gangbusters also. All of the Horn Farm Cannas have done GREAT!
Stadt Feltbah my first Horn's Canna to bloom, and it is a true beauty!!
Very pretty! Stadt Feltbah is one of my longest bloomers. Very full flower.
Love your spider! LOL
chris
I have those green spiders in every picture this year..they are all over my garden! Hope they are eating lots of bugs!
all doing well. here's red & orange. yellow, white, & pink in another sections of the garden.
Beautiful!
Pheitmeyer, Love Your Tropical Border!