By Mail Order - to Visitors to our nursery - and at exhibitions and plant fairs.
From HART CANNA FARM, holders of the UK Plant Heritage National Collection of Cannas.
All our cannas are virus-free.
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Our Cannas (variety Durban) growing in St James Park, London |
MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE 2011/12
We sell cannas as rhizomes and growing plants, and some varieties we sell as seeds. All our prices are VAT inclusive. We sell floral varieties, foliage varieties, and the original wild species. Availability depends on variety and season. Where there is no shopping cart box it indicates non-availability of that particular item at the present time.
Our rhizomes bear little relation to rhizomes available in hardware stores and garden centers. Firstly, where possible, each rhizome is personally selected to be actively growing. Secondly, all our rhizomes are virus-free. This is a rarety in the trade where canna rhizomes are usually infected with virus disease. Thirdly, as canna specialists, we ensure that our cannas are correctly named.
Please note that the height of cannas depends on the climate and growing conditions. We call a "short" canna one that is under 0.8m in a typical English summer. A "medium height" canna, typically 1.2m, and "tall" varieties are around 2m.
We sell cannas by mail order. Our standard delivery charge for mail order sales is £5.50 for any quantity. (this charge is automatically added to on-line purchases). This charge applies to UK mainland only, excluding highlands and islands.
Customers ordering for other areas within the UK, and the European Community, need to phone or e-mail for the cost of carriage, and pay by credit card. We can not send cannas outside the European Community. Customers in Europe can also order direct from our eBay shop without needing to contact us. On eBay we are known as canniferltd.
We also sell cannas to callers at our nursery, where customers can choose their own items. They can also see for themselves that all our stock is virus-free. We advise callers to phone before calling in case we are not there. (phone 0776-295-0000).
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We have now mostly discontinued selling cannas as rhizomes for the current season. Increasingly, as the season progresses, we will be selling cannas as growing plants.
However, the following varieties we are selling rhizomes at WHOLESALE RATES. Each rhizome is hand selected to have at least one actively growing shoot and new roots, and all are virus-free:
To order, see shopping carts below:
£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.
£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.
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.
£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.
(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
VAT receipt if required
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.
another photo
Sold out as rhizomes.
A short green canna with large creamy-pink flowers
£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.
RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:
Pack of 100 £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
VAT receipt if required
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.
£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.
RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:
100 or more @ £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
VAT receipt if required
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.
£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes
Sold out as rhizomes
A very tall green plant with large tangerine orange flowers.
£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.
£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes.
RHIZOMES AT WHOLESALE PRICE:
100 or more @ £1.60each +VAT=£192.00
VAT receipt if required
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.
£9.00 for a pack of 3 rhizomes
Sold out as rhizomes
Small variety with green foliage. Yellow flowers lightly speckled with red.
This is a range of 4 varieties which are intended to be grown as water plants, with the roots totally immersed in water (though they can also be grown equally well in the garden border). They are all tall plants (2 metres). They were bred in America (Longwood Gardens) from C. glauca which grows in water. Like C. glauca, they all have narrow lance shaped glaucous (bluish) foliage. The flowers are rather spidery, but attractive. There are 4 varieies: 'Ra', 'Erebus', 'Endeavour', 'Taney' (all named after ships), 'Ra' is by far the most popular, followed by 'Erebus', and both were awarded AGM at the 2002 Wisley Trial. Wisley Garden makes extensive use of 'Ra' in the various water schemes. NOTE: the rhizomes are very slender and so do not winter well. We find that if allowed to go dormant not many grow the following year. For this reason we recommend keeping them growing in a frost free greenhouse (not in water) through the winter. Photo of water cannas 'Ra', 'Erebus', 'Endeavour'
£12.00 for 1 plant Yellow flowers. RHS AGM Award 2002
Plants available later in the year
Pink Flowers. RHS AGM Award 2002
Plants available later in the year
Red flowers.
Plants available later in the year
Orange flowers.
CANNA TROPICAL SERIES This is a range of 6 varieties cannas bred by Takii in Japan. All are very short, flowering at around 0.3 meters to 0.5 meters (12" to 18"). If grown well (which essentially means plenty of heat, plenty of water, and a good root run of rich compost), they will flower in 90 to 120 days from sowing the seed. The seed is pre-scarified, so all you have to do is sow it. In subsequent years you can save your own rhizomes, and sometimes collect your own seeds. We have available as seeds, rhizomes, plugs and small plants, depending on season. Provided with growing instructions.
Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00 Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50:
The first of the Takii tropical series, and the one we like the most
Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00 Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00 Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00 Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Somewhat variable, some seeds produce flowers with pale purple speckles, which are very attractive.
Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00
Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
Packet of 5 seeds, £5.00
Packet of 3 plugs, £7.50
FOLIAGE VARIETIES 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.
another photo 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.
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OUR 2012 CATALOGUE OF CANNAS SOLD AS PLANTS
A selection we hope to be selling at our nursery, by mail order, and at shows and exhibitions. We can't guarantee that we will have all these, but we will do our best. Descriptions and photos to be added soon. AlberichAmbassadourAngele MartinArgentinaAssautAustraliaBrilliantCaballeroCalimeroCarnavalCentenaire De Rozain BoucharlatChampionChouchouCleopatraConfettiDurban (Phasion)EmblemeEric NeubertExtaseFeu MagiqueGeneral EisenhowerGlamourGnomGrandioseIndianaJivagoLolitaLouis CayeuxLuciferMontaigneMusifolia GrandeOiseau D'OrPanamaPresidentPretoria (Bengal Tiger)Prince CharmantPuckPurpureaQueen CharlotteRichard WallaceRoi SoleilRomaRussian RedSalsaSaumurSemaphoreSingapore GirlTaliTaroudantTriompheTropical RoseTropical YellowTropical WhiteTropical RedTropical SalmonTropical Bronze/ScarletVivaWater Canna RaWater Canna ErebusWater Canna EndeavourWater Canna TaneyWhithelm PrideWyomingYaraSPECIES:C. flaccidaC. glaucaC. indicaC. jacobinifloraC. paniculataC. patensC. turckheimiiC. warszewicziiCOMING ALONG SOONInitially these will be available to our regular customers, and later to those giving us a reasonable size order of our catalogue varieties. Hopefully in 2013 they will be on regular sale 'Ehemannii''Golden Orb''Gran Canaria''Pink Perfection''Roi Humbert''Shenandoah'Stuttgart'PLEASE NOTEWe are willing to trade (ie exchange) most varieties and species from our National Canna Collection for varieties and species which we do not already have. But these must be disease-free. See: www.canna-collection.org.uk
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From the start of 2012, we change our name from HART CANNA to HART CANNA FARM.
We have recently written the following magazine articles:
"Cannas, an update" RHS Plantsman, Published September 2011
"Glorious Cannas" Borderlines magazine, Half Hardy Plant Society
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FUTURE EVENTS
We are at the
And at various other shows and plant fairs. OUR OPEN DAYS 2012 Our Open Days in 2012 will be held Friday to Monday, August 24th to 27th, 10.00am to 4.00pm, (This is the August Bank Holiday). We shall have around 100 varieties and species on show and many varieties on sale. Admission is £3.50 and includes a free cream tea. nb: The address is our home, not our nursery: 27 Guildford Road West, Farnborough, Hants, GU14 6PS. Tel 0776-295-0000. There is plenty of parking. For further details see our website:
PHOTOS OF SOME OF OUR PREVIOUS EXHIBITS
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LINKSOUR OTHER WEBSITES
www.canna-collection.org.uk www.cannifer.co.uk www.hartcanna.com www.watertubs.co.uk
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