Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Canna breeding new forms, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
For the last few years I have been breeding cannas and trying to make new forms that look totally different than what most people think of when they see a canna. I have manly been breeding for foliage rather than flowers. But in most cases with cannas the flowers are still very pretty. I have been lately trying to get larger flowers on my new foliage forms. This years hybrids had some unique looks. My landscape had a totally different feel to it with these new forms. Most people had no idea what they were new colors new shapes and sizes is what I am after. In most cases with just about all my breeding I find myself going after stuff I want personally. I just wonder to the people on the market how alluring are these new hybrids? Do they look like something everyone would be interested or just people like me? Truthfully I get excited about some of the ugliest plants LOL. So for a person with bad taste like me I would like to know do these look like something most people would want? I had a guy here ask about some of my odd cannas in the spring he said he did not want his landscaping to look like it was from another planet with giant spikes of puple foliage that looked more like a coral reef layout rather than a regular landscape design. My question was why not LOL.
So as you can see I personally love all my odd ball hybrids if they are to make it out of my compound the interest in them should be high enough so that its worth my time. So if anyone thinks of these as to tacky for a yard I would love to hear more. I have come to terms not everyone is as tacky and gaunty as I am.