Go for Fairygirl! i used to have more cannas, Durban and Pretoria. I'm thinking of digging up one of my bananas and replacing it with canna Ehmannii. Actually think my black knight is a wyoming.
Same here chicky checked picton gardens and rhs, can only think it's one of the hybrids (n.america?) the blooms dont seem too dense or clustered and cant see the black stems mentioned. Love a challenge
Bamboogie, thanks checked rhs for aster glow in the dark and up came nine suppliers, one of them Picton old nurseries and gardens. Time for a re-visit.
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Go for Fairygirl! i used to have more cannas, Durban and Pretoria. I'm thinking of digging up one of my bananas and replacing it with canna Ehmannii. Actually think my black knight is a wyoming.
Love that 6ft aster
. Must go google
.....unless anyone else can hazard a guess as to what it might be called
Same here chicky
checked picton gardens and rhs, can only think it's one of the hybrids (n.america?) the blooms dont seem too dense or clustered and cant see the black stems mentioned. Love a challenge 
The stems are as black as my black bamboo, it's called aster 'glowing the dark'
Lyn, they are beautiful stars
and your borders are so full of colour - worth open garden status.
Bamboogie, thanks
checked rhs for aster glow in the dark and up came nine suppliers, one of them Picton old nurseries and gardens. Time for a re-visit.
Lyn, they are beautiful stars
and your borders are so full of colour - worth open garden status.
I put my border photos on, then clicked to edit and lost them in case you think Bizzie B is imagining things!