The Gardener's Guide to Growing Cannas

by Ian Cooke

Book Overview

The strong forms and eye-catching colors of cannas make them perfect for planting as focal points or to help create a subtropical ambience. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881925136
• ISBN13: 9780881925135
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Bookl

I was very surprised at how much I learned about Cannas. I have approximately 40 different cannas. I learned more from reading the book than I have from raising cannas for the last 10 years. I also discovered some new ones that I plan on ordering.

Growing made easy

The Gardener's Guide to Cannas is a perfect place to start if you have any interest in one of the easiest plants to grow. The book covers everything you need to know, covers all the unique varities, and has wonderful pictures.

Presents a canna expert's complete review of the plant

Cannas are thought of in terms of their beautiful color. Ian Cooke's Gardener's Guide To Growing Cannas presents a canna expert's complete review of the plant, from an A-Z listing of varieties to the history of cannas, their cultivation and species, and cannas in the garden. Gardener's Guide To Growing Cannas is an appealing, colorful, comprehensive guide which gardeners and horticulturalists will appreciate.

The only book dedicated to Cannas

This book deserves more than five stars! I had searched for a book on Cannas for a long time. As Ian Cooke points out, this book is the only comprehensive work published on Cannas since 1903. It has become one of my treasured plant bibles, along side with "Heliconia: An Identification Guide" by Fred Berry & W. John Kress and "Exotica" by Alfred Graf.I live in the tropics and Cannas are indispensable in adding colours to an otherwise overpowering green garden. This book is aimed at gardeners in temperate climate countries, who have a more challenging task in growing Cannas. Ian Cooke is obviously an authority on these plants. The book has valuable information on Canna species, cultivation including common pests and diseases, and propagation by rhizome division and growing from seeds. There is even a list of websites/nurseries dedicated to this genus and is an alternative avenue for sourcing of new species by keen gardeners.

the gardeners guide to growing cannas

Finally a book on the long-awaited gardening subject:CANNAS , with the fine writing and photoes we expect fromIan Cooke. A very useful book for gardeners who lovethat exotic garden look.