'Ambassadour'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes.

White flower and green foliage. Medium height (1.2m).

At one time white cannas were a great rarity, but now there are several. This is as good as any we've seen, having large and very nicely shaped flowers, and beautiful deep green foliage. Has featured on our stand at the Hampton Court Flower Show for several years.

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'Assaut'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes.

A tall canna with large dark red flowers and bronze foliage. It is quite spectacular as shown on the photos below.

It is usually sold in garden centers as 'Black Knight'. The true 'Black Knight' has a slightly darker flower, but Assaut has a nicer shaped flower. We will have the true 'Black Knight' available when we have built up enough stock.

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'Australia'

sold out

This variety is generally reckoned to have the darkest foliage of any canna. A tall and slender plant with shiny lance-shaped leaves and large orange/red flowers.

We don't have much, but for this order we will find a good small plant, which is essentially a rhizome in leaf with roots.

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'Brilliant'

£8.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

Sold out as rhizomes.

A relatively short canna with intensely red flowers and narrow lance shaped light green foliage.

This variety has small rhizomes. It is very bushy and produces many stems.

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'Centenaire de Rozain Boucharlat'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes.

Large deep pink flowers and deep green foliage. Medium Height. An old French variety which has the distinction of being the first truly pink canna (ie no trace of orange).

Another variety that featured prominently on our stand at Hampton Court in 2011.

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'Cleopatra'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes.

A "Chimaera", the flowers can be red or yellow, and often are partly red and partly yellow. Similarly, the folaige can be green, or can be green with red streaks. Medium Height.

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'Durban'

(Also known as 'Phasion' and Tropicanna (TM)).

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:

100 or more @ £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
50 @ £1.80each +VAT=£108.00
30 @ £2.00each +VAT=£72.00
10 @ £2.30each +VAT=£27.60

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(Discount automatically added in)

The most popular canna of all time. Gorgeous multi-coloured foliage (basically burgundy-coloured leaves with pink stripes). It also has large tangerine-orange flowers. The ultimate garish canna and not for those sensitive souls who don't like clashing colours. Medium height (around 1.5 meters). RHS AGM Award 2002.

We fought a legal battle to free it from Plant Breeders Rights and make it available for anyone to sell. You would think other growers would be grateful, and maybe even thank us, but they didn't!

To retain the vibrancy of the foliage, it better grown in some dappled shade.

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'Ehemannii'

Not available this year as rhizomes.
Maybe as plants later in the year

An unusual but very beautiful canna. A hybrid of the species C. iridiflora which grows in the jungas of Peru.

Nodding cerese flowers. A very big plant, over 2m, with large green leaves.

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'E. Neubert'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

Sold out as rhizomes.

A medium height canna with brilliant flame-coloured flowers, and distinctive light bronze lance-shaped foliage.

Very similar and may be the same as the old variety 'Verdi'.

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'General Eisenhower'

£10.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes

Very dark chocolate foliage, almost as dark as variety 'Australia', but matt rather than shiny. Large well-shaped orange/red flowers. Fairly tall (1.8m). RHS AGM Award 2002.

This variety wins the ultimate prize for its architectural foliage which is in breathtakingly beautiful curvaceous shapes. It will wow you right from the first leaf that breaks from the rhizome.

This is the first year that we have had stock to sell of this variety.

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'Gnom'

Sold out as rhizomes.

A short green canna with large creamy-pink flowers

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'President'

£9.00 for pack of 3 rhizomes.

Sold out as rhizomes

A very sturdy plant of medium height, with enormous luxuriant fleshy pale green foliage and very large scarlet flowers.

A good spot or centrepeice variety, and much beloved of London parks in years gone by.

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'Pretoria'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:

Pack of 100 £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
Pack of 50 £1.80each +VAT=£108.00
Pack of 30 £2.00each +VAT=£72.00
Pack of 10 £2.30each +VAT=£27.60

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Order in packs of 10 below:
(Discount automatically added in)

An exceptionally popular variety. Also known as 'Striata', 'Bengal Tiger', 'Palida', 'Malawiensis'.

The unique feature is the foliage, which is herringbone stripes, cream on green. It has exactly the same large orange flower as 'Durban (to which it is genetically related).

This is one of the best canna varieties, and one of the 'classics' of the canna world. It never fails to please. Medium height. RHS AGM Award 2002.

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'Queen Charlotte'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes

Attractive bi-coloured flowers in yellow and red. Green foliage. Medium height.

An old variety, bred in germany.

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'Richard Wallace'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:

100 or more @ £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
50 @ £1.80each +VAT=£108.00
30 @ £2.00each +VAT=£72.00
10 @ £2.30each +VAT=£27.60

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Order in packs of 10 below:
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Plants available later in the year

Medium height, with light green foliage and yellow flowers lightly specked with red.

An extremely vigorous canna which produces masses of new shoots each year.

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'Roma'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:

100 or more @ £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
50 @ £1.80each +VAT=£108.00
30 @ £2.00each +VAT=£72.00
10 @ £2.30each +VAT=£27.60

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Order in packs of 10 below:
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Plants available later in the year

Medium height with green foliage. Large flaccid bicoloured flowers.

An "Italian Series" canna bred around 1900. There are several similar varieties, and we are not exactly sure of the name, particulatly since the patterning can be variable - some flower have more yellow, and some less. If anyone has an opinion on this please let us know.

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'Singapore Girl'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes

A very tall green plant with large tangerine orange flowers.

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'Tali'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

Sold out as rhizomes

Plants available later in the year

A short plant with bronze foliage and nicely shaped orange flowers.

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'Whithelm Pride'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

Sold out as rhizomes

Medium height with beautiful damask-pink flowers and green foliage with red stems. RHS AGM Award 2002.

The photo below is of a single plant and was taken at the 2002 RHS Canna Trial.

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'Wyoming'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:

100 or more @ £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
50 @ £1.80each +VAT=£108.00
30 @ £2.00each +VAT=£72.00
10 @ £2.30each +VAT=£27.60

VAT receipt if required
Order in packs of 10 below:
(Discount automatically added in)

Plants available later in the year

One of the tallest varieties, usually around 2 meters, with dark bronze leathery leaves and large tangerine-orange flowers.

An old variety which is one of the all-time favourites. It is the only canna to be given an RHS AGM award at both the 1906 and 2002 canna trials at Wisley, which it well deserves.

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'Yara'

£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes

Sold out as rhizomes

Small variety with green foliage. Yellow flowers lightly speckled with red.

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WATER CANNA 'Ra'

£12.00 for 1 plant

Yellow flowers. RHS AGM Award 2002

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WATER CANNA 'Erebus'

Plants available later in the year

Pink Flowers. RHS AGM Award 2002

'WATER CANNA 'Endeavour'

Plants available later in the year

Red flowers.

'WATER CANNA 'Taney'

Plants available later in the year

Orange flowers.

'Tropical Rose'

Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00

Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50:
Available from March

The first of the Takii tropical series, and the one we like the most

'Tropical Yellow''

Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00

Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Available from March

'Tropical Red''

Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00

Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Available from March

'Tropical White''

Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00

Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Available from March

Somewhat variable, some seeds produce flowers with pale purple speckles, which are very attractive.

'Tropical Salmon''

Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00

Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Available from March

'Tropical Bronze/Scarlet''

Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00

Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Available from March

'Musifolia Grande'

£12.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

A giant variety, over 2 meters. Green leaves with red veins and edges, and red stems. Rarely flowers, and the flowers are small and orange.

Enormous rhizomes (which incidentally are edible). RHS AGM 2002 Award.

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'Russian Red'

£12.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.

A giant variety with very dark reddish bronze foliage. Small orange flowers.

We identified this variety as an improved version of C. indica 'Purpurea' (bigger and darker leaves) which we named 'Russian Red' (don't ask why, its a long story). We submitted it to the 2002 RHS Canna Trial where it received the RHS AGM Award. Enormous rhizomes which are edible.

'Purpurea'

£10.00 for 1 plant

Very tall plant foliage variety with bronze foliage. Rather more upright growth than 'Russian Red', and the foliage is not as dark. Enormous rhizomes which are edible. We supplied Wisley Garden with this variety in 2011 (see photos).

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'Argentina'

Available as plants later in the year.

Very tall plant foliage variety with pale green foliage. Actually a very tall version of C. indica which is a very variable species. Seed collected in Argentina.

'Argentina' growing wild in Argentina

'Stuttgart'

Plants available later in the year to our regular customers. We hope to have it on general sale in 2013

A very unusual and distinctive canna. One of the tallest cannas, 2.5 meters, with narrow glaucous leaves variously striped and splashed with cream. Smallish apricot flowers.

The foliage always becomes disfigured by some cream areas turning brown, and there seems to be no way of preventing this. Certainly, growing them in the shade doesn't work, in spite of what many folk presume. But even so, it is so vigorous that this minor fault may be overlooked. It is very popular at Wisley Garden.

Another unusual feature is that the rhizomes are extremely long. We often see them 60cm (2ft) long with just one shoot right at the end. This effectively precludes selling this variety as rhizomes.

Historically, it was supposedly discovered in Stuttgart Botanical Garden in the 1970's, by a group of visiting botanists from the USA, who obtained a sample and took it to the USA where is was marketed initially as 'Striata', and then re-launched as 'Stuttgart'. We are not convinced by this claim, because we have seen this variety growing in remote parts of Bolivia and Argentina (see pictures), and we don't see how it could have got to these parts in so short a time.

It has been known to revert to plain green, which is a very splendid plant. It then becomes known as 'Annei' (in the USA 'Omega'). If any reader has a healthy specimen of the green version, then we would really appreciate a piece.

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growing wild in Tartagal, northern Argentina

C. flaccida

£8.00 for 1 plant

Soft pale green foliage and large flaccid yellow flowers the texture of tissue paper. Enormous seed pods. Medium height.

Night flowering, and reputedly fragrant, though we find the scent difficult to detect. Believed to be in the parentage of many floral varieties. It is native to the Florida Everglades, and normally grows in shallow water, although it will grow equally well in the garden border.

A collectors item, we find it needs hot conditions to flower. It performs better in a greenhouse than outdoors where the buds often turn to mildew. Each flower lasts barely more than a day.

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C. glauca

£8.00 for 1 plant

Very narrow reed-like foliage of a glaucous (bluish). Fairly large pale yellow spidery flowers.

Natively found growing in shallow water, but it will grow equally well in the garden border.

This species is the parent of the "Water Cannas"

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C. patens

£8.00 for 1 plant

£5.00 for 10 seeds

A small plant with small green leaves and rather slender stems. Very floriferous. Attractive bi-coloured flowers.

A large clump has grown in the Temperate House at RBG Kew for many years.

Grows readily from seeds (seeds need to be scarified). If pollinated, will produce masses of seeds which can be saved for future years.

Sometines seen as C. braziliensis, which is an invalid name.

C. turckheimii

Available as plants later in the year

Very big pale green plant with giant leaves and tubular orange flowers. Makes a good foliage plant. Rarely offered. Our stock came from Belize.

C. warszewiczii

£8.00 for plant

£5.00 for 10 seeds

An attractive fairly short species with olive-green wavy-edged leaves and small but brilliant red flowers. It is quite distinct, and is garden-worthy both for flowers and foliage. The red seed pods are also distinctive.

Note: the name is pronounced "var-shay-vishi". We have also seen this species sold under the name 'Hot Shot' which is easier to pronounce.

If pollinated, will produce masses of seeds which can be saved for future years. Traditionally, estate gardeners grew this cultivar from seeds each year, because it is easier than saving the rhizomes which are small, and sometimes don't survive the winter.

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C. jacobiniflora

Available later in the year

Discovered in Argentina as recently as 1988. A fairly tall canna with orange flowers which remain almost closed. The latin name "jacobiniflora" means the flowers are hooded like a Jacobin monk's hood.