GardenRant, NorthCoastGardening blogs to host Tropicanna^® contest!

Tropicanna cannas

Tesselaar Plants and the wildly popular Garden Rant and North Coast Gardening blogs will be hosting a Tropicanna^® cannas contest soon – possibly starting next week! The contest will last a week with an announcement of the winners the following week.

The final contest idea is still being formulated, but we know Garden Rant’s Amy Stewart and North Coast Gardening’s Genevieve Schmidt plan to post a video and photos of them planting the tropical, psychedelically foliaged Tropicanna cannas along with some shots of the plants fully grown.  We look forward to the contest and anticipate Amy and Genevieve will have many good things to say about this red-hot garden plant!

Stay tuned for the contest details, but I can tell you that the winners will receive a Tropicanna variety pack. 

If you want to prepare for the contest,  check out the video “How to Grow Tropicannas in Containers” (produced by Dave Epstein of Growing Wisdom) on the “Video Clips” section of Tesselaar’s web site. Or just view it for some garden design ideas and inspiration.

While you’re at it, below are some fabulous container garden combinations featuring the original Tropicanna cannas along with the newer Tropicanna Gold and Tropicanna Black (Black is now widely available to the market after being held back for a few years because of propagation issues).

In the meantime, I’ll keep you posted on when the contest runs!

Good luck to all!

Tropicanna canna (original) at top; zinnias at middle left; lysimachia 'Nummularia Aurea' at bottom

 Tropicanna Black (top); salvia farinacea (middle left), dichondra argentea ‘Silver Falls’ (bottom)

Tropicanna Gold (top), torenia ‘Catalina Viva Blue; (bottom left) and Heuchera ‘Velvet Night’ (bottom right)