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Unless my monitor is badly adjusted, this is Canna 'En Avant' - a
popular hybrid in municipal plantings, though not to be despised because of that. If you can get virus-free plants (not easy at the moment), it is a very rewarding variety capable of producing many vigorous shoots which can flower throughout the summer. A sunny site, rich soil and lashings of water is the order of the day for these gaudy plants. They are also well suited to large containers provided you use a very good quality compost (sorry, but 'peat-free', soil-less types simply cannot hold onto essential nutrients long enough) and give regular applications of liquid feed. |
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In message , Charlie
Pridham writes In article 8dfe32d3-690e-460d-b40b- , says... Unless my monitor is badly adjusted, this is Canna 'En Avant' - a popular hybrid in municipal plantings, though not to be despised because of that. If you can get virus-free plants (not easy at the moment), it is a very rewarding variety capable of producing many vigorous shoots which can flower throughout the summer. A sunny site, rich soil and lashings of water is the order of the day for these gaudy plants. They are also well suited to large containers provided you use a very good quality compost (sorry, but 'peat-free', soil-less types simply cannot hold onto essential nutrients long enough) and give regular applications of liquid feed. I notice that people are starting to say "Virus free" but how can you clean up cannas? indeed how can you tell if a canna is infected? I know the National collection was all but destroyed by virus, I don't have virus on any of mine (I think!) but have very few and most of the garden cannas are species which have been seed grown but there are several quite nice tasteful cultivars which I wouldn't mind getting but not at the risk of getting a virus infected plant. I don't know about Cannas, but a common means of cleaning up virus infection (e.g. old double primroses) is tissue culture. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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On Jun 25, 1:06*pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote: In message , Charlie Pridham writes In article 8dfe32d3-690e-460d-b40b- , says.... Unless my monitor is badly adjusted, this is Canna 'En Avant' - a popular hybrid in municipal plantings, though not to be despised because of that. *If you can get virus-free plants (not easy at the moment), it is a very rewarding variety capable of producing many vigorous shoots which can flower throughout the summer. *A sunny site, rich soil and lashings of water is the order of the day for these gaudy plants. *They are also well suited to large containers provided you use a very good quality compost (sorry, but 'peat-free', soil-less types simply cannot hold onto essential nutrients long enough) and give regular applications of liquid feed. I notice that people are starting to say "Virus free" but how can you clean up cannas? indeed how can you tell if a canna is infected? I know the National collection was all but destroyed by virus, I don't have virus on any of mine (I think!) but have very few and most of the garden cannas are species which have been seed grown but there are several quite nice tasteful cultivars which I wouldn't mind getting but not at the risk of getting a virus infected plant. I don't know about Cannas, but a common means of cleaning up virus infection (e.g. old double primroses) is tissue culture. -- That makes sense!! Actually telling if you have a particular virus or not can be told in the lab by checking for virus DNA or RNA (by PCR; polymerase chain reaction amplification of specific sequences). Des Stewart Robert Hinsley- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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