New Cannas

Well due to this bad season and tons of work. I did not get to do as much breeding or as much seed growing of the cannas as I would have hoped for. Some of last seasons new hybrids really preformed well this year and some new hybrids as well.

Here are some new things I have growing.

NOTE: The names may change on a few they are just for me to keep IDs on them for now.


This one I call Candy Shadow the name may change but this is it's second year and it has not done much till the last few weeks. It reminds me of a canna australis with neon pink flowers.

Another pic of the same canna. It has been a very hard canna to photograph. I can never seem to get the right lighting or colors from the plant. The leaves are a bit reflective and if the flash goes off you get glair and in full sun in looks bleached out. Finally today I was able to get some good shots that look closer to its true color. I really doubt I will ever get a shot of what this plant really looks like but these have been the best so far.

last photo of Candy Shadow. The flowers are spotted pink with dark pink spots.

Brian,
They still look great. It seems you got more accomplished than I did this season with most of our spring and summer being in the 90's and combined with a drought, followed by fires, followed by more drought, and now a fairly normal tropical pattern.....I have crispy edges on cannas and colocasia/alocasia....and no cross pollination on daylilies at all. However, my black stemmed taros in my pond, are blooming heavier than they every have. I try to clip it back, but they are going nuts (of course with this year's weird weather they are covered with aphids like crazy too)
Congrats on getting SOMETHING going at your place! You're leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of us this year. Purple leaves with pinkish flowers....a personal favorite!
:)

I have some canna with the same color leaf but it hasnt bloomed. Could it possibly be the same as yours? Do other colors come with that same color leaf?

It would be impossible for them to be the same. Similar that is very possible. This one I breed here in a breeding program trying to breed new foliage forms into cannas. I am sure their are very similar cannas out their. This form was picked out of literally hundreds to thousands of seedlings. It sheds its flowers well it is also a heavy flowering canna and the flowers are held above the foliage. These are certain traits to look for in most breeding for cannas.

I have one canna I have been breeding with that I think is superior to all other cannas I have ever seen. It does not look completely different at first glance most people would just consider it another pretty canna. But it is highly superior in that it drops flowers better than any form I have ever seen and it also produces more flowers than any canna I know of. Most people think tropicanna bengal tiger are good flowering cannas this one doubles if not triples the amount of blooms it produces. Each day I am guessing over 100 flowers on this one plant. Once I am doing breeding with it and hopefully release a new series all steming from this one plant. Other than maybe some new colors I don't how I could really improve it.

Brian, I love your canna photos and the name Candy Shadow. When you start selling C. S. please get in touch. I'd love to add her to my collection.

Nice selection, Brian. Pleasing color combination. - Arlan