Cannas

Cannas are an exciting and colourful landscape plant with dwarf, medium and tall growing varieties available for sale. They are a clump forming bush that are excellent used mass- planted for a showy flower display or used as individual specimens interplanted with other trees and shrubs in your garden.

Greg, a local nurseryman, and his family have been growing bulbs and perennials in Monbulk for over 25 years and have collected and grown the most beautiful collection of Cannas over the last 12 years including varieties with brilliant pink and blazing red flowers. Greg and his team grow and harvest Cannas from the fields each winter. A machine is used to slash the leafy growth off the Cannas leaving only 10-12" of growth behind, the plants are then undercut with a machine which makes it easy to lift them from the field. Greg and his team, using a fork, hand dig each Canna plant from the ground.

The Cannas are then divided into divisions and have their tops and roots trimmed, they are then washed producing a nice healthy division to be planted or potted into the garden. The washing process consists of placing the cannas onto a conveyor belt machine, brushes and water run over the Cannas producing clean divisions. The excess water is run through a silt trap to ensure that the recycled water is clean. The Canna divisions are then bundled and packed ready for dispatch.

Digging Cannas from the field.	Cannas ready to be divided.	Dividing Cannas.	The silt trap.	Washing the Cannas.	Cannas ready for dispatch.

Planting & Care

Plant your Canna divisions in your garden or large pots burying the roots and most of the stalk into the soil, the top of the stalk should just poke out of the ground.

Cannas require a sunny position in the garden, they can become stunted if planted in shade. Cannas like regular watering and feeding with a general purpose fertiliser such as Devotion™ Time Release Fertiliser and a few handfuls of chook poo every couple of months.

Use In The Landscape

Cannas are quite fast growing and can reach their full height in just one growing season. Cannas are an upright clump forming plant that will add spectacular colour to your garden. They are ideal used in tropical style gardens, mass planted for dramatic flower colour and are great used interplanted with other trees and shrubs. Cannas are a very hardy plant and can withstand wetter areas and periods of dryness.

Our Range of Canna Divisions
Dwarf
Tropical salmon	Tropical Rose	Dr Eisler
A nice compact very short bush with salmon pink flowers	A nice compact very short bush with rose pink flowers	A nice compact bush with deep red flowers
Medium
Heinrich Seidel	Alfred Cole	Garton Baudie
A medium sized growing bush with tall yellow flowers with apricot shadings	A medium sized growing bush with tall red flower spikes	A medium sized growing bush with deep yellow suffused red flowers
Tall
King Humbert	Lemon Gem	Wyoming
A tall growing bush with bronze foliage and orange/red flowers	A tall growing bush with deep yellow flowers on tall spikes	A tall growing bush with giant golden, penciled vermilion, flowers with bronze foliage
The Gem	Una	Winter colossal
A tall growing bush with deep cream flowers spotted carmine	A tall growing bush with dark rose flowers spotted carmine	A tall growing bush with orange/red flowers

Canna divisions are available during the winter months.