Canna, Canna Lily 'Florence Vaughan'

I brought home one of these plants last year, and planted it next to a down pipe from my house so that it would stay in damp soil at all ...Read Moretimes. By the end of the summer 1 had become about 12, and they were all about 6 ft. We had a frost this winter and they all died down to the ground. a week later they were growing again, and are currently 6ft again in full bloom.
I have since acquired 3-4 other types of cannas which are planted all around my yard with different colour blooms and foilage. They are already coming up in 3s. I look forward to finding more and more types to plant. They appear to grow taller in the most sunny spots and where they receive the most water.

These were growing in the very neglected, very moist yard at the place we moved into. The foliage looked horrible due to leaf rollers but...Read More when they flowered it was amazing. I cut them down to the ground and in a month they were 4-6 feet tall and about to flower again with absolutely no care beyond the scalping I gave them. I can't wait to try the Tropicanna cultivar next year. I see a lot of these around but sadly most have the ratty look they get when leaf rollers attack. I suppose one must keep on top of it and cut down the buggy stalks.

I started out with three of these cannas and now two years later I have several dozen, they multiply quickly. The flowers are, in my opi...Read Morenion, the most beautiful of all the cannas I have seen. Just keep an eye out for those horrible leaf rollers.

This was my first canna that my grandson gave me but didn't know the name. I started with about 12 very small tubers but now have them ev...Read Moreerywhere and have traded and shared them all over the U.S. They will grow ANYWHERE in any soil, you don't even have to put dirt on them. If they get to taking over too much, I just pull up by arm loads and dump anywhere I want them to grow.