canna tubers

[Don]

I, too, would add a note of caution about Canna virus. I said last year that the majority of UK stock was virused
Stock from Steve at Phoenix was superb and is just about to regrow in a coolish greenhouse.
Even totally clean stock can become infected within a very short term from virused plants in your neighbours garden (via the shed garden centres) so do be careful.
I guess if the whole of the UK did not grow Canna for a few years then we could probably get rid of the virus, but that is not going to happen.

[phoenix]

We could all stop growing them Don but as soon as we started again the virused stock would come flooding back. It's not just the G/C's that are at fault though, take a look at the pictures on some of the "specialist growers" sites

[Don]

Of course you are right Steve. The situation isn't helped by some of the GC's that do not seem to care,----or idiots like me who think that some of the more gallumphing cannas such as musaefolia and edulis look rather attractive when virused.

[lee-ann]

Of course you are right Steve. The situation isn't helped by some of the GC's that do not seem to care,----or idiots like me who think that some of the more gallumphing cannas such as musaefolia and edulis look rather attractive when virused.

[phoenix]

suppose you'll like this too then Don