Canna Catalogue 2025

Our catalogue of cannas for 2025 is shown below. We will modify this catalogue as the year progresses.

Our website may refuse to accept an order of more than one or two plants of particular varieties. We are not in the business of providing multiple quantities of each variety. Our role is to make available a wide range of varieties, not a large quantity of any particular variety.

What we sell are small plants, or a rhizome with new roots and at least one actively growing new shoot. Each plant that we sell is individually selected to be of a quality that we would like to receive ourselves if we were the customer. That is not always an easy task to achieve, particularly in the winter months. But we try to ensure that each plant we sell has at least the potential to be a credit-worthy plant.

These cannas should be potted-up as soon as received, well watered, and given a little TLC (tender loving care) until they become established. We recommend not planting them outside until mid May in most areas. Customers purchasing cannas in winter should grow them under glass and in a frost-free environment until spring. These are growing plants and are not suitable for onward storage through winter. Customers that don't have facilities for growing cannas through the winter are advised to purchase plants in the spring/summer. Please note that we do not take forward orders, ie customers placing and paying for an order to be delivered later in the season.

Please note that we do not sell dormant rhizomes. In nature cannas grow in the tropical parts of central and south America, and in the West Indies. These countries rarely if ever experience frost, and so cannas never become dormant. If forced into dormancy, many rhizomes die. Many customers will already have noticed that canna rhizomes sold in small packets of dry peat in garden centres are often already dead.

Our pricing policy is that we charge a little more for varieties that are more trouble for us to propagate, which generally are the bigger varieties, or for varieties that we are relatively short of.

We prefer customers to order on-line where possible (Our websites are encrypted and fully secure). The sale is then fully documented and archived, and we don't need to handle credit card information (which is securely handled by our Shopping Cart provider). We despatch cannas as soon as ordered where practical.

Callers to our nursery are welcome by arrangement, and we sometimes have a bigger selection in a wider range of sizes than is available online.

For advice and information on canna cultivation, please see here: Cultivation. For more detail please see our book "The World Of Cannas" Please check here before phoning/emailing us. We love to talk about cannas, but the problem is simply that we have lots of customers, and we just don't have enough time to spend on the phone or writing emails dealing with the same query over and over again. This is why we try to provide the answers to most questions on this website and in our book.

We are not able to send cannas outside mainland UK because of the cost and/or difficulty of obtaining export/import documentation.

This business is owned by Keith and Christine Hayward. We also hold the National Collection of cannas under the auspices of Plant Heritage.

We also have a business selling cheap black plastic planters

Water Cannas

This is a range of 4 varieties which are intended to be grown as water plants. They grow with the roots and crown totally immersed in water, but they can be grown equally well in the garden border, and seem just as drought-hardy as other cannas. They are all tall plants (2 metres).

They were bred in America (at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania) from C. glauca which is always found in shallow water. Like C. glauca, they all have narrow lance shaped glaucous (bluish) foliage, and attractive rather spidery flowers. There are 4 varieies: 'Ra' (yellow), 'Erebus' (pink), 'Endeavour' (red), 'Taney' (orange). All are named after ships (Erebus and Taney are American warships).

'Ra' is the most popular, followed by 'Erebus', and both were awarded AGM at the 2002 Wisley Canna Trial. We served on the Trials Committee (status Technical advisors as owners of the UK National Collection). 'Ra' was very popular with the Committee and was awarded AGM ststus as soon as the first flower opened. 'Erebus somewhat later. In our opinion 'Endeavour' should also have been awarded AGM. 'Taney' is not very good (though beauty is in the eye of the beholder).

In the Britich climate, Water Cannas usually die if left in the outdoor pond over winter. The rhizomes are very slender and often die during the winter even in glasshouses if allowed to go dormant. For this reason we recommend taking them out of the water and growing them through the winter as plants in a frost-free greenhouse. They are happy not standing in water.

Occasionally other canna varieties varieties are encountered with the prefix "Water Canna". In our opinion "Water Canna" refers to these four varieties bred at Longwood Gardens.

Photo of water cannas 'Ra', 'Erebus', 'Endeavour' growing in water
(The pond is hidden)

WATER CANNA 'Ra'

Price: £12.00

Height: Very Tall
Foliage: Glaucous green
Flower: Clear lemon yellow.
award of merit

RHS AGM Award 2002.

another photo

CATALOGUE

New for 2025: Our book on cannas

Canna Catalogue 2025

'Annei'

'Assaut'

'Australia'

'Bird of Paradise'

'Brilliant'

'Cannova Bronze Scarlet'

'Cannova Bronze Orange'

'Cannova Bronze Peach'

'Cannova Mango'

'Cannova Yellow'

'Carnaval'

'Centenaire de Rozain Boucharlat'

'Corsica'

'Durban'

'En Avant'

'Eric Neubert'

'Ermine'

'General Eisenhower'

'Golden Orb'

'Gran Canaria'

'Herman'

'Intrigue'

'Perkeo'

'President'

'Queen Charlotte'

'Richard Wallace'

'Roi Humbert'

'Roma'

'Rosemond Coles'

'Russian Red'

'Stuttgart'

'Tropical White'

'Whithelm Pride'

'Wyoming'

Water Cannas

WATER CANNA 'Ra'