Everyday theres more new ones, I am very pleased this time, nice growth habits,quick multipliers, great bloom and bud count. Heres a few of them.
More new seedling cannas......
I like this ones color..a rich orange coral with green leaves that have red edges.Started out blooming at 12 inches now has 6 new shoots and is about 30 inches, very quick bloomer and multiplier.
A pretty speckled a nice light cream with pink spots.lots of buds on each scape,fast multiplier too.
A cerise pink with good bud count.Green foliage
and another bright red with good keeping quality.
Geezzz Kyle, those are breath taking. did you start these from seeds for real? I have heard of people starting cannas from seed, just didnt see the results. I have always bougth tubers.
How are you kyle? is your egyptian room all done? new project in the works?
Hope you are well
Pebble, yes all were started in March from seeds, for each pretty seedling there is usually about 7 or so that get thrown out. The egypgtian room is basically done, now the stairwell going upstairs will be egyptian also(too much stuff!! LOL)The kitchen is going to be caribbean, the master bedroom tropical and I think the living room will be mesoamerican(mayan,aztec,incan,etc.) motif. Busy busy busy, :-)
wow Kyle, you have your hands full with all your re-decorating........ what fun you must be having though....
I cant believe that cannas bloom from seed in one season. is that normal?
Beautiful blooms. I sure wish we did not have problems with leaf rollers and other eating insects on cannas here; it could easily be a real passion with me. I have to cut my cannas to the ground - suddenly I stopped spaying, and bugs have eaten all the leaves up. I am thinking I will try a systemic - maybe it will last longer.
Kyle, those last two pics are beautiful....love the spotted one.
MsC
WOW!! Can I get some of YOUR seeds??!! I am getting ready to make a bed of these with the ones I already have, a few seedlings and then plant some more seeds! Bonnie
I love your results, Kyle. And I love how fast you get to see your results. I have Tropicanna blooming. I wonder if I pollinate it with another one in my yard like Australia.
Did you cross them yourself or did the bees do it? Any pointers? Do they self pollinate for exact replicas of the mom? With my luck I would grow a bunch and have them l look just like the mom.
THANKS KYle!
PS Can we see pictures of your rooms? At first I thought you were talking about garden rooms but rooms in your house.....what a project. I would love to see them!
kell, check under threads Kyle has started and then in the Home Decorating forum, real nice job. I came across it last year when I was new at Dave's.
Kell,I crossed most of them years ago.Just decided to plant some again.Many look like one or the other parent,many duplicates like daylilies.
the cerise pink is a real winner with me... !!! all of them are very nice.. but that one is exceptional
all are very beautiful
have you taken the girl and boy pics of the flowers? I like them all and I love the speckled one...
ely
Ely, I will try to get pics next week, when its cool the pollen holds up longer on the flowers,gonna be in the *GULP!* 70's here next week,Whatever will we do???????? LOL
Beautiful cannas Kyle
Beautiful cananas, Kyle.. I need to learn how to pollinate these too.
I luv the speckled one the best, but they are all beautiful! Did you say that they all were started from seeds this year? My cannas that I planted from seeds are huge but no bloom yet. Definitely have to save seeds for the speckled one!
:) Donna
I don't think I will see the 70's for 2 more months.... a cool breeze would be nice....
ely
Outstanding plants Kyle, whatever are you feeding them to get such beautiful blooms in one season. Are we going to see "Cannas by Kyle" on plant labels soon?
Roz, we have leaf rollers here too and I have found that the species cannas do well for me - no spraying at all! They are not pretty like Kyle's but they have other attributes. I grow Canna Warscewiczii just for the seed heads which I think are interesting.
another new one that bloomed today,very tall and pure yellow flowers, lovely silver/green leaves, real narrow foliage.
