Tropicanna® Gold is no shrinking violet! You’d be hard pressed to find another plant will make you squint due to its bright coloration but this selection’s outlandish foliage will do just that. Narrow and upright growing, Tropicanna® Gold carries huge oval shaped leaves that are alternately pin striped from the midrib in deep green and blinding yellow. It’s an amazing foliage show that will galvanize any sunny garden spot and draw immediate attention and that’s without even talking about its superb bloom. Flower buds appear on long, sturdy stalks that rise above the foliage and open to searing orange colored, yellow edged flowers beginning in early June and continuing into September. Try Tropicanna® Gold in a container for a real conversation starter. Foliage will not color as well in partial sun or at temperatures consistently below 60 degrees F.

This member of the Tropicanna® family certainly is showy, just in a different way than its realtives. While Tropicanna® Gold and Tropicanna® show off brilliantly colored variegation, Tropicanna® Black exudes a deep, dark coolness in the garden with deep purple foliage that is nearly black in appearance. It’s incredible how the large Canna foliage adds so much texture to the landscape and added together with this elegant color, the plant is a show stopper. This sultry, rich color also serves as a great foil for its big flowers, held aloft from the foliage on stout stems starting in June and continuing into September. This bloom nearly jumps out at you from the garden with a bright scarlet-orange color that looks even more brilliant backed by the deep colored foliage. Any sunny garden spot or mixed container will show off Tropicanna® Black and its great gift of color and texture very well.

Tropicanna® has become one of the most iconic summer plants in the garden….even the northern garden when it’s not hardy. Why would a tropical become such a mainstay? For the simple reason that there is nothing else like it in the world! It’s strongly verticle profile leaps out of the garden with huge multihued variegated foliage that changes from burgundy to red to pink with splashes of yellow, gold and deep green across its long oval form. Even the foliage is great to cut for vase arrangements and we haven’t even talked about its bloom! And bloom it does with brilliant orange flowers on stout stems above the foliage from June through September. The color combination sounds loud but it has an amazingly unique power to blend with the garden while standing out individually and making the rest of the garden look even better! Plant Tropicanna® in any half to full sun area…it looks great everywhere including near water features and in containers.