Canna Wyoming AGM

Description

Canna Wyoming AGM has flowers that are a tangerine orange, darker edged and speckled purple-red with brown leaves. Cannas will grow well in UK gardens and just need to be well watered and fed during the growing season. Feed with rose fertiliser or tomato feed. Cannas are frost tender and as such need to be protected or lifted over winter. They are flamboyant and extravagant looking plants and will provide a great colour during the summer.

Cultivation instruction

Plant Indoors: Cannas are best started off indoors from February and only planted outside when the fear of frosts have passed which is normally late April. Plant in a containers or in deep seed trays filled with a good potting compost such as John Innes number 3. Keep the soil moist and protect young growth for snails and slugs.

Plant outside: From Late April on wards into soils that have been prepared previously. Prepare soils by cultivating them to a depth of 25cms and digging in some well rotted humus matter and grit if soils are heavy. Plant the bulbs so that they are length ways and the growing tip is 5-8cms below the soil surface. Cannas work really well when planted in pots in the conservatory or greenhouse. Remember to feed them during the flowering and leaf stage with foods such as are well rotted manures, Tomato feed and bone meal.

AGM = Award of garden merit given by the RHS.

Growing information

Flowering height: 48-52″ (120-130cms)

Flowering period: August-October

Soil type: Soils that are well drained and humus rich are ideal.

Aspect: In a sunny part of the garden that does not get too cold.

Scented: N/A

Planting distance: 20cm between plants

Planting depth: 5-8cms

Soil type: Free draining light soils that heat up quickly. Feed often during the growing season