Combine these brazen and bold perennials with finer textured plants like the ornamental grasses and Verbena bonariensis. Our plants are growing in gallon pots, and not shipped as dried rhizomes.
Cannas are extremely heavy feeders that also like full sun and lots of heat.
If your cannas look ratty during the summer, that's a sure sign that an extra shovel of manure is required. In colder climates, lift the tubers and store them above freezing in dry peat moss for the winter. We have grown a lot of purple foliaged cannas, but never anything like this. Thanks to canna guru, Johnnie Johnson, for sharing this coveted gem that he obtained from New Zealand. Imported from India in 1963 by the Glasshouse Works guys, this is considered the most beautiful of cannas.