I absolutely love Bengal Tiger. Your Australia looks great, such dark foliage! Aww, heck, they all look great. I love cannas. I lost my Bengal Tiger and a yellow one this year . They just didn't make it through the over-wintering process.

Those are bold varieties for sure. They look great

Beautiful pics! Those are my fav's as well!

I've grown them for a few years and have liked them well enough, but last year and this one as well it's been really wet, and between that and some nice hot days the cannas are taller and bolder than ever.

I never knew the australia could be so dark until all the rain last year.

I'm lucky as far as overwintering goes. I have a corner of the garage which is cold but never freezes and they do really well there.

That is cool, I love the streaking on the bloom stem and foliage. Does it vary a lot depending on the shoot? Nice that even the blooms are mixed up like that!

katob, yes it does vary on the leaves but almost all have some sort of purple streaking. The blooms will not always be streaked like that. Sometimes they have red petals and yellow petals rather than a mixed petal. But for the most part, it's a spectacular display.

katob, we have similar taste in cannas. For me the flashier, the better. I got Bengal Tiger this year and it just had it's first bloom. I'm really enjoying the colorful foliage. My Australia has never been as dark as yours. I suspect it's because I have a lot of shade on my deck. ...Mine are all in pots.

If I ever see Tropicanna or Cleopatra for sale around here, I'm going to snap them up! Both of them are very pretty.

popmama, I remember when you got your Cleopatra. Nice to see the bloom, it's stunning!

Thanks, sandyslopes! My uncle usually has a few to share. He has some sort of canna magic. So hit me up in April and I can send you a rhizome.

Now if I could just get Stuttgart to survive and bloom!

That's so nice of you, popmama! I may just do that next spring. :-)

I just looked up Stuttgart and that's a pretty one, too. So many nice cannas.

Gorgeous.

Thanks for bumping this up, Timothy! It was a nice diversion on a snowy day here. I will start taking my cannas out on April 1. They will go out for the day and back in the garage at night until late May when they can safely stay outside day and night.

I also just ordered 5 Stuttgart bulbs to try once again. I just can't seem to give up hope on those!