Tropicanna Canna Lily In Pots

Place the washed canna tropicanna into the pot spreading the roots and keeping the crown of the plant 5 8cm 2 4 below the rim.

Tropicanna canna lily in pots. Fill the container with good quality sterile potting soil and plant the rhizome section 4 or 5 inches deep in the. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience to provide our services understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements and display ads. Use a good quality compost. Stunning canna tropicana this plant was in really good condition when it arrived and i immediately repotted it into a larger terracotta pot and sat it on my south facing patio where it has grown a lot no sign of flowers yet but it has plenty of time as they flower for a very long time.

The larger the pot the more bulbs you can plant resulting in more blooms from the canna growing in pots. Select your cookie preferences. Canna tropicanna has splendid striped orange and green waxy foliage with wavy edges throughout each leaf beautifully topped off from june to september with distinct soft orange flowers. If planting in a pot or other container.

It is a useful summer bedding plant for both containers and borders but does well in cool conservatories in summer. Containers for canna lily plants can be made of ceramic material or clay either glazed or unglazed. This plant can be used as a specimen in groups in a mixed planting or in a container. This plant can be used as a specimen in groups in a mixed planting or in a container.

Cannas are vibrant tender perennials that produce bold leaves and showy flowers in shades of red orange yellows and pinks. In the tropics they are frequently grown for the food value of the tubers however here we use them for their huge tropical beautifully coloured leaves. Along with canna pretoria canna tropicanna has become one of the most popular cannas grown worldwide and quite understandably. Canna are wide spread across the tropics and are cultivated in many temperate gardens.

If planting in a pot or other container. Canna tropicanna has splendid striped orange and green waxy foliage with wavy edges throughout each leaf beautifully topped off from june to september with distinct soft orange flowers. Use a good quality compost. Continue to fill with soil shaking the pot gently to ensure that the soil is evenly distributed among the roots.

Although commonly referred to as a lily they are not lilies but are the sole members of their own genus cannaacea and are related to bananas and gingers. Most growers agree that it is a tall undemanding robust grower with strikingly marked almost psychedelic foliage topped by huge orange flowers.