Canna Musifolia - Giant Tropical Foliage Plant from The Secret Garden of Louth

is you local climate good for growing these flowers outhome? i live in a snow hell where wintes is 9 months long, i'd love to be born in sicilia!

Great Video! Thanks! Added to my interesting videos by other channels playlist so other people may find you! Rough dry year for me but I’m trying to mix Japanese and tropical elements into my garden. I focus on edible plants that are perennial. Maybe next year my garden won’t starve for water.

When you say you lift the cannas; do you cut down the leaves? Or do you lift them leaves and all? Also; when you mention a greenhouse or Polytunnel, do you mean a heated one or will they be okay in unheated greenhouses?

Thanks for making such helpful content! Great video :)

I am so jealous that you can grow tree ferns and I am unable to do that here without bringing them indoors for the winters. Kidding of the jealousy bit but your garden is lovely. Thank you for sharing. My Musifolia tops nearly 10 feet here is west Tennessee in the US.

Great video I missed last year.

it's bulbs/rhizomes are of what colour ?

Cannas

I love these cannas. They give an amazing feature and good filler.

Hi I don't think the plant ypu are talking about is Musifolia--it looks like Ehemanii to me. I grow both-unless yours is some kind of hybrid. Hanging fuschia flowers are a characteristic of Ehemanii.

Do you have any idea where I can find Canna Edulis in the uk?

Love these plants, but I really struggle with slugs (or something else). The new leafs emerge totally destroyed - some just fall straight off the plant, so I think there is something living in the stems. I tried using nematodes, but that has made no difference. Also tried cutting some of the stems open to see what was living in there - but couldn't see anything.
I have several of these plants and it is the same for them all.
Thankfully, eventually they grow fast enough to beat the pests, but at this time of year they look dreadful and are really struggling.
Any tips from anyone?

I love them. If you decide to divide some of these rhizomes please do a video.

Here in Florida, I can't grow cannas due to the high humidity and fungal diseases. I grow Heliconias instead

George
I have just bought a fresh rhizome from jungle seed thinking I could dry store it over winter and grow it March /April
In the instruction it recommends planting it and growing it immediately but recommends trying to dry store it over winter
What would you do dry store it and take a chance or start to grow it now in December

Thank you for a very informative video.
This is my first Winter over-Wintering a canna.

My canna is in a large pot and I’m tempted to simply put that pot in the shed….or should I clean off all the old soil/compost and repot it in dry compost and wet it a little?
I’d like to ask another question if I may…do you think a stand-alone brick garage would be ‘warmer’ than a wooden shed with windows?

George I've not long had a good size Tropicana Black, probably 2ft, next year should grow bigger?

Hi George. Great video. I've grown my musifolia for first time this year. Grow it from scratch and now 2mtrs tall. I live in Northamptonshire and would like to know the best way to over winter it. I do not have a green house but have a shed and a lean to I cover in clear tarp every winter to protect the plants I need to.

Omg what is the plant in your back??? When the video starts...

I want seeds.can you send to thailand?

Whoop whoop I have one of these! Still small but hoping for great things by Autumn

My Cannas are being plagued by snails. Looks like someone used a shotgun on them.

Hi George.
Super video. Short of space last winter left my canna black tropicana outside in a pot, only part of it returned and knackered with the cold spring. Lesson learnt next winter change in storage plans. I love the dark foliage cannas including the tropicana and bird of paradise varieties. Would love a musifolia👍

Just bought two of these, they are quite big and look really healthy. Thanks for your great advice on how to take care of them!

they can act as miniature bananas.

Thank you George, excellent video as always. 👌💕

Hi George iv'e bought two cannova f1 red are these the same care.... thanks again for sharing your knowledge

I bought my cannas 3 years ago and they are now running all over the flower beds, I even potted a couple and put them in the greenhouse as an experiment to see how they do. I feed mine once a month on liquid seaweed and chicken manure pelets.
I have left mine to get on and every year they come back up, I don't dig them up and they come up every year with more and more cannas. We are in Norfolk and we get snow and hard frosts but they still come up every year.

Cheers George, more great advice

Great video George. Mine look nowhere near the size of yours. Infact none of my plants look like could it be a lack of full sun? Even my ricinus are only about 40cm tall. The sun goes behind the trees from about 11am till 6pm then get sun till about 8.30pm.

Hi, very informative video, I've planted a Canna Tropicana. The plant is growing however lots of Ants are crawling down the leaves into the centre, worried they maybe building a nest? Any tips to get of them without damaging the plant

another great video George ,i brought a Pretoria from farmer gracey and it was so small and rotten i companied and they sent me another and it rotted to so never buying of them again.i have canna musifolia they are lovely and i brought one and and its now 5 plants they are great i also have a canna stuttgart beautiful leaves .thanks again and sorry for rant :)

Hi George,
When you overwinter your cannas, do you cut the leaves down to the ground or just leave them growing. Thanks for the great vids and congratulations on your marriage.

It's on my wish list. Can I just say lighting and video quality is top notch!!!! Also a very late congratulations to you and your wife
❤️ Hope you have many many happy years together

Planted 1 last year in a large pot, I protected the pot by wrapping it up for winter and put straw all over the top, but it's not survived, I think the cold still worked its way down the stems from where I cut them off. It was fantastic last year, it grew from a bulb to about 5ft, I'm in sunny Leeds.

Great video, very helpful. I have just planted out a Canna Musifolia 'Grande' really looking forward to seeing what it will do

Hi mate I’ve grown canna tuerckheimii from seed this year there about a foot tall at the moment,have you had any joy with these? Great vid once again 👍