Roath Park Canna Collection

Canna Border
  1. Canna musifolia
  2. Argentina
  3. Assaut
  4. Canna coccinea
  5. Roi Humbert
  6. Canna indica purpurea
  7. Angele Martin
  8. Canna iridiflora
  9. Tyrol
  10. Canna indica purpurea(2)
  11. Hercule
  12. Wyoming
  13. Pernod
  14. Striped beauty
  15. Lucifer
  16. Shenandoah
  17. Canna indica
  18. Jivago
  19. Striatum
  20. En Avant
  1. Meyerbeer
  2. Oiseau D'or
  3. Taroudant
  4. King Midas
  5. Richard Wallace
  6. Canna warscewiczii
  7. Fireside
  8. Picasso
  9. Picadore
  10. Strasbourg
  11. Champion
  12. Perkeo
  13. Extase
  14. Talisman
  15. Liberation
  16. Roi Soleil
  17. Verdi
  18. Orchid
  19. Rosamund Coles

The Canna Bed was in front of the Conservatory from 1997 to 2011, on the south side of the entrance. In the centre was a Cordyline australis (Cabbage tree) which was also the centre of an earlier bed design, having been placed there in 1995/6. It died in the winter of 2004/5.[1]

Canna species and cultivars were maintained at the Castle Nursery in Bute Park, with a view to the possible establishment of a National Collection. The plants in the Conservatory Border were lifted annually and returned to the Nursery.[2]

Sources of Information.

  1. Personal communication (DJ)
  2. Roath Botanic Garden Plant List

Information on Canna plants in general from Wikipedia