I'm doing an un-scientific survey to get an idea on which cannas are the most popular. I am going to be adding Canna's to our product line for 2008 and I need some help figuring out which ones I should stock. If you had your choice of three, which ones would you plant? I'm going to stock about 7 or 8 different ones. Your responses will help me determine which ones I'll offer.
Thanks,
Bill
Which varieties do you guys like
I like the ones that are 3-4' tall. They fit into my yard better than the tall ones. I like ones with broad petals on the blooms instead of the thin ones.
Louise
Louise,
Which color do you like. I'm looking to stock at least 3 dwarf varieties.
biLL
I'm too new with cannas to have color preferences for blooms. I also like all of the variegated foilage ones.
Louise
Myself I would love to have a true white, I have Milk Festival & I am looking for a better white.:)Anita
I like Pretoria, Cleopatra, Red King Humbert, Chocolate Cherry, Phaison/Tropicanna, etc. For dwarfs, I like Lucifer, the Futurity series, and some others.
I'd love to have some whites but so far have not seen them in a fair price range or they are not truly white.
I buy according to where they will go. Generally, I try to get red, yellow and orange for the tropical beds and use more pastel colors in other beds.
Good luck!
Mine aren't big enough to bloom yet so I could only guess at what will be my favs.....Cleopatra, Orange Punch, & Journey's End.
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Anything with variegated or unusual colored leaves. Also like the flowers that are bicolored.
I have the reds and yellows and only a couple of pinks. So anything white or differently colored.
Anne
White, pure white..
i like ermine and musafolia... and soft pinks
My Australia is my fav so far - I love the beautiful dark foilage on that little puppy.
I have Red, Pink & White in my Canna bed, but only 1 white so far - Ermine. I'd love to have a few more whites, and I prefer the baby pink to the brighter, hotter pinks.
Stuttgart, Cleopatra, and tropicana.
ooh....good choices guys...this is hard, but I'd have to say Ermine, Striped Beauty, Tropicanna Phaison (with Intrigue and Futurity Pink and rose as honorable mentions. I also love anything in a hot pink/fuschia but haven't succeeded in getting a good one to grow in my garden
On the 'White' cannas, no one has yet to my knowledge been able to breed a true white canna...kinda the holy grail of cannas. Ermine is the closest I think to a true white, so pretty
Ermine, Thank you all, Thats the 1 I was trying to think of..:)Anita
You guys are great!! You've definitely given me allot to think about. I'll probably end up stocking at least a dozen different ones. We'll see...
Bill
orgot to mention Panache....lol...Pink Sunburst...lol
Tropicanna....Orange beauty....Yellow king humbert....bengal tiger.....I have a dwarf white...no name I just love.