Thank you so much. I have never tried seeds do you just plant and then get a canna and then get rizomes ?? ? I will certainly try it.

Canna seeds are easy to grow and the often big seeds grow plants so fast that some may get some blooms the first year ... now IF ONLY they were fragrant too!

White Canna's are tough to find! Agree 'Ermine' is one of the better near white varieties.

I've also seen one listed called 'Pure White" again from Karchesky's beautiful site. Might have to ask to get on the waiting list for that.

What zone are you in?

If in z8 to 11 consider hardy ginger such as the White Butterfly Ginger Lily Hedychium coronarium. Top Tropicals and Plant Delights are example sources.

Hardy ginger can add tall vertical interest, much like Canna, are very tropical looking, and some have beautiful, even powerful fragrances too!

White Butterfly Ginger flowers can fill the air in a garden and their cut flowers too powerful as a cut flower in an indoor space without sufficient ventilation. The fragrance is often described as gardenia or honeysuckle like, carrying well in the air, and most prominant in the late afternoon or evening. White Butterfly ginger photos.

At home we grow 'Dr Moy', which is a nice off white with lightly varigated foliage and also 'Elizabeth', which is an 8' tall pink. Both are quite fragrant.

Example internet photos of 'Dr Moy' and ' Elizabeth'.

Now put these next to that hardy banana ....

So very beautiful. I have a moon garden that I would love to add them too. Lotz of white dahlias and moon flowers and afew others they would make a nice addition Thank you for the help

Suggest white Lily Stargazer, White Nicotinia alata, and/or White Brugmansia Little Angel. We have them because they gave large visual impact across the yard. And they seem to glow at twilight and night. They pull you outside in the evening to enbrace the evening fragrance when they peak.

The lily is hardy the nicotinia and brugmansia grows amazingly fast! The nicotinia purchased in a 4" pot can be upsized to 3-5 gallon planter by midsummer. And we overwinter the brugmansia in the garage and back it up with cuttings.

A tall Hydrangea paniculata or quercifolia along the back wall would show well too ... below are paniculata 'Phantom' and quercifolia 'Snowqueen'.

Along walkways use White Stock ... short growing and again highly fragrant.

All these suggestions produce high impact over a long period, visual and/or fragrant.

We use all these elements in our current yard and plan to have family summer evening events with candles (citronella if buggy).

Thank you do you sell any of these?

Sorry just home gardener not a seller. But with a little searching these are often easy to find locally or online.

Of all the above ideas, the Brugmansia is the one to not miss. In the summer my Wife puts a hammock and reads a book with this pair by her feet. When twlight comes the fragrance gets powerful and she lays there an hour or so with the wafting fragrance drifting through.

Our 'Lillte Angel' variety grows 6' in a summer. Mid to late summer through October we get, 2 then 4, 8, 16, 32, then almost 64 flowers at a time in flushes! It's peaking to mind boggling proportions as we're trying to get the most out of the last hints of warm weather.

Brugs are marginally root hardy here. So, I'm using cold frames this winter to try to get a quicker start from 1' tall rootstock. Yes these are the two bushes above whacked off. And yeah I'm after 128 flowers in final bush flush for 2017. The stem sections are stored for backup starts if the cold frame test fails.

You can also tub it and put a lawn chair nearby. We stop watering and moved the tib shown below into the garage in the winter without lights added. It stays at 38 to 45 F until spring, and even tries to flower in the dark! We just move it back outside when safe, start watering again, and it takes off. Can't let it get very wet or warm in storage or it rots. This is the 3nd or 4rd year on this tubbed plant.

By the way the Nicotinia alata has seed like dust, self seeds easily, and grows FAST. This Tobaco the Brugs, potato, tomato, eggplant, petunia, and nightshade are all related, and grow hyperfast. The green parts on all are similarly toxic, but are bitter, and not likely a problem with pets.

Don't rub the Brug with your hands and touch your eyes ... not happened to anyone we know, but they use a similarly toxic plant in the family to make the pupil dilating drops for Ophthalmologists! I read about one poor soil misting their Brug in a greenhouse. A little water drop rolled all tbe way down a leaf and splashed into their eye, which stayed dilated for a couple days. Obviously a lot of agent had built up on the surface.

We also see dead gnats on the sticky surfaces of Nicotinia and Petunias. Nicotine extracted from Nicotinia plants is used as insecticide commercially ... does a number on people too! In nature is us a insect feeding inhibitor so they don't eat much. They fall off and shake their little legs, unable to eat for awhile. Tomato stem handling puts sticky fragrant oils on your fingers too. Guessing toxic too.

Intoxicating× plant family ... I'll risk getting incensed by the flowers any day.

Thank you for all your pointers. I will defindely be on the look out. This is in my little moon garden.

Gfleatham, what was your source for b. Little Angel? I lost mine and you are right, that one is a must have.

Yes, with its full size flowers and compact plant size, it's a keeper. It also likes to make fat stems that make great cuttings.

They sell 'Little Angel' at some plant nurserys here in the PNW. I think T&L a wholesaler in Redmond propigates them. Even hardware stores get them at times! So my plant was from Home Depo! I see none listed on the internet currently, but Brug listings are typically more in Feb-Mar. Ask ahead to Logees or trumpetflower.com?

If you can't find 'Little Angel', 'Betty Marshall' is a good alternative.

Other options:

'Maya' = 'Sunset' is a nice cream flowered one I've grown w lightly variegated leaves. The flowers really show against the slightly smaller than average leaves. It is,a very heavy bloomer. I've even had a plant flower in the winter in the livingroom window when overwintering it. Geez ... a half dozen flowers opening in the house fills the whole house with maybe too much fragrance.

'Snowbank' has large 'Little Angel' like white to Apricot colored flowers and wide large drop dead gorgeous leaves. My plant had up to 18" long leaves, and look at the compact habit. It is the only variegated leaf type I know with wide those white margins. And the leaf edges are boldly serrated too.

It's an oddball that can have white, apricot and/or mixed flower colors.

These are both strong growers and highly fragrant. 'Snowbank' leaves display nicely in a moonlight garden. I see Plant Delights currently lists both variegated varieties.

Good luck deciding which "one" to get.

Lusting....

I may have extra Little Angel cuttings this spring to trade.

Thank you

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