Cannas are one of my personal favorite plants groups. They are striking in the garden with beautiful flowers in a wide range of colors and bold foliage. Over the
years cannas come in and out of popularity and availability. In the 1700's and 1800's only the well off Europeans were
growing cannas in their gardens. The canna was seen as a strange new plant form the new world and
they started taking the Victorian gardens by storm. As the cannas popularity
grew so did the breeding, hybrids began to improve on the flower size
and over all shape and size of the plant. By the early 1900's some of the
more well known cannas were being developed by breeders around the
world.
