Canna, Canna Lily 'Australia'

Planted against a 4 ft stucco wall with west sun on back side of wall but otherwise FULL SUN in N. Phoenix AZ. These babies are loving ou...Read Morer heat. It's Nearly june and the 5 Australia Canna's I planted are thriving in the desert sun. They've been blooming continuously for about a month and going strong. They're even taking the occasional beatings from my 2 dogs. If they break a shoot or two I just cut it off and it saps over and starts new shoots. It is the Desert so the drip irrigation is a must but there a beautiful center piece to our garden.
Only draw back is that the blooms last less than a 3 days and need to be plucked from the shoot occasionally. Blooms are a brilliant red/orange.

Echo the previous reviews. Very dark, more than any other. Spreads very vell, almost to the point of invasiveness. Only issue, is, the...Read More stems are a bit weak and tend to blow or flop over easily, but might be a product of my growing in partial shade. Great plant.

Grew very large it's first year. Maintenace free, produces beautiful red flowers.

Really grew large in its first year. I love the dark colored foliage; it's very striking. I am impressed it held up very well during the ...Read Moredrought this summer.

One of the darkest leafed cannas anywhere. Leaves are satiny and appear near-black in the heat of summer.
Large, soft, medium-red ...Read Moreflowers are very lovely, too (o: