Reedy Meadow Nursery was  started in 2005 by Mandy and Steve Forster. It stands in 5 acres at the North end of the Teign Valley. We have four 8  by 24 mt Poly tunnels, and two glass houses. Mandy is a keen Canna enthusiast  and is concerned with keeping Cannas clean from virus. For that reason we only sell cannas that have grown on our nursery for a year or two. Any cannas showing virus are destroyed immediately.  We go to great lengths to source clean cannas,  purchasing them as rhizomes means that they cannot be sold until we are sure canna virus is not present.

There is nothing in the plant kingdom remotely like Cannas. Classified in their own plant family Cannaceae, in which there is only one genus Canna, it can be said that few other plants are as remotely connected to the remainder of the plant world. The closest living relations to Cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales, which are the Gingers, Bananas, Marantas, Heliconias, Stelitzias, etc. In general, these are all tropical herbaceous plants having large leaves which open by unfurling. Although Cannas are now naturalized in many tropical countries of the world, they originated in the Mid-Americas from Florida through the Panama to the warmer parts of South America and the West Indies. For over 4000 years the plant was cultivated by the native American people, who ate the rhizomes, and used the large leaves for various purposes. Today Cannas are cultivated all over the world, there are over 500 named species and cultivars.