HORN Container Gardening with Cannas C A M N R N A F A ® Index ● Page 3 Containers ● Pages 4-7 Dwarf Varieties Our family from left to right: Turner, Nikki, Corinne, Madison, Dustin, ● Pages 8-9 Medium Varieties Ellyn and Sage (center). ● Page 10 Tall Varieties We write this note as the end of 2020 is approaching. Along with everyone else, we are so looking forward ● Page 11 Giant Varieties to 2021! ● Page 12 Order Form COVID hit just as our 2020 shipping season was getting underway, followed by our normal time to ● Page 13 Growing Info plant in April. With so many people staying home, we had tremendous spring sales. We are extremely grateful ● Page 14 Collections for that! Spring planting was delayed several weeks due ● Page 15 Cannova® Cannas to COVID concerns and a busier than usual shipping season. Our delayed planting caused a few shortages among our varieties. If you have a favorite canna that you don’t see in the catalog this year, don’t worry. Varieties not available this spring will be back within Containers are an easy way to add color to a deck, the next year or two. porch or balcony. Use the thriller, filler, spiller approach for professional looking containers. Water The best part of 2020 was having all five of our kids more often than your flowerbeds. Containers dry out home for five months! We never expected to have all more easily during the heat of the summer. of our kids under one roof again other than holidays 1. Cannas are one of the best thriller plants for height and weekend visits. All of them pitched in to help with and color. spring shipments while juggling online zoom classes. They also worked some really late nights to help us 2. Filler plants with similar sun requirements include get the field planted. asparagus fern, geranium, begonia, coleus, petunia and lantana. We are excited to share several new plants with you Container featuring Cannova® Yellow Cannas this season! Our customers have asked for a white 3. Spiller plants can be purple or green sweet potato vine, ivy, calibrachoa, trailing begonia or nasturtium. See Page 15 for our all new selection of Cannova® The pendant shaped blooms of canna for years. Alaska (page 4) is an ivory or creamy Banana Punch are a little different Cannas. (Photo by Laney – Belfair, WA) than most cannas. It is a new variety white canna growing an average of three feet tall. We for us this year! See page 4. think you will love it! Other varieties include Banana Buy your cannas as bulbs Punch, Elite™Chocolate Sunrise, Kreta, Madeira OFFICE HOURS and Picasso. (pages 4-7) We are also offering the or potted plants! Monday – Friday 9:00 – 4:00 CST Cannova®Series cannas for the first time this year. Order your bulbs for shipment 2021 SHIPPING DATES We especially love Mango and Rose! (page 15) from mid-February through Bulbs ship February 15, 2021 We are most thankful for you, our customers and the month of June. Order your plants for shipment between through June 30, 2021. friends. To our longtime customers and those of you the months of May and August. who joined us this year . thank you. Thank you for Plants ship May 3, 2021 Bulbs are shipped fresh and healthy with a mini- through August 31, 2021. being a part of our small, family farm. We love getting mum of three to five eyes each. A sample size bulb to serve each of you! Order anytime and select your is pictured left. Plants are shipped in 1.2 quart preferred ship date on the Our kindest regards, containers that measure about 4x4x5 inches. A calendar during checkout. sample size of our plants is pictured right. Plants range in height from 12 to 24" tall, depending on Order online at cannas.net Dustin & Nikki Snow the time of year they are shipped. 3 Dwarf Canna Varieties These varieties reach an average height of 3 to 4 feet tall. Cover Feature! Alaska Durban Psychedelic leaves and Alaska’s nearly New! orange blooms are like no white blooms are just other! Originating from what gardeners have been Durban, South Africa. seeking for years. Rich Also known as Phasion. green leaves compliment Excellent foliage canna. the creamy petals. Limited $13.00 bulb/$26.00 plant availability. $29.00 plant (only) From Our Customers “In all my years ordering online plants, I never had a nursery send out my order so fast. You are well organized and I plan to reorder from you much earlier next year. I called up the same day to add City of Portland to my order, but my order, I believe, was being sent out and considered complete. I lucked out. Today, I received my order and to my surprise the City of Portland was included. It was very nice of you to go out of your way and include it. Thank you very much for making a customer happy.” - Phil – Matawan, NJ Cherry Red Banana Punch Burning Ember King City Gold Dawn Pink Red Futurity The slightest hint of a New! Lots of rich yellow Petite but powerful! Loaded with cheery Flamingo pink blooms Chocolate foliage and pinkish-orange hue petals open in an arch Fiery orange blooms yellow blooms accented create a stark contrast crimson blooms create softens the red blooms. shape on the pendant glow amidst dark bronze by dark green foliage. to the dark chocolate a fantastic contrast to Narrower petal, but lots blooms. Average height of foliage. One of the Look closely for soft foliage. Barely reaches green foliage plants and of them! Yellow peaks three feet with deep green shortest among our red dotting across the 3 feet tall. Tips of the shrubs. Stays petite and out from the middle. foliage. dwarf varieties. petals. leaves cup slightly. is self-cleaning! $10.00 bulb (only) $26.00 plant (only) $6.00 bulb/$19.00 plant $6.00 bulb (only) $29.00 plant (only) $8.00 bulb (only) 4 Order online at cannas.net 5 Dwarf Canna Varieties These varieties reach an average height of 3 to 4 feet tall. Tropical Sunrise Blushing apricot blooms mingled with soft shades of pink and a hint of Madeira pastel yellow. Create a New! Orangish-red petals edged in tropical vibe in the garden bright yellow with green foliage. The with these large blooms! bi-color blooms are great in containers. Contrasts beautifully with Also an Island Series canna. orange and pink flowers. $26.00 plant (only) $8.00 bulb (only) Mirna – Philadelphia, PA From Our Customers “I just wanted to let you know the plants arrived today and look to be in excellent condi- tion. I really like the way they were packaged, it was much more effective than some of the other plants I ordered this spring. It’s odd to shop for plants online, but so much easier than starting from bulbs up here in Chicago. Thanks!” - Karen Picasso Kreta Elite™ Chocolate Wyoming Yellow Futurity New! Show stopping New! Brilliant red Sunrise This award winner brings Pastel yellow blooms pack blooms of rich, yellow blooms and green foliage. New! Golden hued impact to the garden! an unsuspecting punch petals covered with red Great for attracting hum- blooms contrast with Orange blooms contrast when planted individu- leopard spots. Delightful mingbirds with a prolific chocolate brown foliage. against bronze-tinted ally and even more so in planted with red blooming number of petals. One of A one-of-a-kind hybrid foliage in a dramatic groupings. Self-cleaning cannas to accent the spots. the Island Series cannas. originating from Israel. combination. blooms are a bonus! $26.00 plant (only) $26.00 plant (only) $26.00 plant (only) $8.00 bulb (only) $6.00 bulb (only) 6 Order online at cannas.net 7 Medium Canna Varieties These varieties reach an average height of 4 to 5 feet tall. Yellow King Humbert This unique and vintage variety has bicolor blooms of buttery yellow splashed with orange. A gardening favorite for over 125 years. $6.00 bulb/$19.00 plant Exclusive! Cleopatra Medium Height Dustin’s favorite variety! Collection A perfect combo of our Red randomly marks both medium-sized cannas. the bloom and foliage. Can 3 each: also grow with a yellow Yellow King Humbert, bloom/green foliage or a City of Portland and red bloom/red foliage. Crimson Beauty. No two are alike! 9 rhizomes for $49.00 $13.00 bulb/$26.00 plant Dennis – Wyckoff, NJ Save 10%! Australia City of Portland Richard Wallace Crimson Beauty Dark chocolate This popular and well- Tropical, lemon drop yellow Red and pink fused foliage topped with known canna produces blooms mixed with the together for a fabulous ruby red blooms grow from coral pink blooms and perfect hint of green apple shade of hot pink. a surprisingly small bulb. lush, tropical green foli- foliage. A great yellow Complemented by shiny Stunning in contrast to green age. First introduced in accent variety to plant green leaves. Tried and foliage plants. 1916 by Antoine Wintzer. behind dwarf cannas. true mid-height canna. $8.00 bulb/$21.00 plant $6.00 bulb (only) $6.00 bulb/$19.00 plant $6.00 bulb (only) 8 Christine – DeSoto, TX Order online at cannas.net 9 Tall Canna Varieties Giant Canna Varieties These varieties reach an average height of 5 to 6 feet tall. These varieties reach an average height of 6 to 8 feet tall! Pretoria Purplish-red stems reach up from the wildly marked stripy foliage giving way to massive orange blooms.