Pretoria Canna Lily has Beautiful Variegated Leaves

My Pretoria Canna Lily has the most beautiful foliage of all the canna lilies in my California tropical garden zone 9b. The variegated green and white striped leaves make it one the most unique looking canna lilies. I grew my Pretoria Canna Lily from a rhizome. I found the Pretoria Canna Lily for sale as a bulb on the Eden Brothers site. I paid $14.99 plus shipping for two bulbs. Canna Lilies are not bulbs, but are rhizomes. Many websites sell and call them bulbs, but they are rhizomes. I planted the rhizome in early spring in a felt pot and waited a few weeks for them to sprout. I watered them twice a week and fertilized them twice a month. The Pretoria Canna Lily grows beautiful orange flowers, but mine did not bloom this year. There are two other canna lily plants that look alike - Tropicanna Gold and Bengal Tiger. All three have the same variegation with green and white striped leaves and orange flowers. I am not sure if they are the same plant or different hybrids. I deadhead the flowers on my canna lilies by cutting the flowers off at the stalks as the flowers begin to fade. This allows new flowers to grow from the same stalk. Mine did not flower, but I don't believe it grows seeds for propagation because the plant is a hybrid. When winter came, I left the plant outdoors to overwinter. Many of the leaves turned brown and died. I pruned back the dead parts of the plant and new offshoots started growing from the rhizome as spring neared. Grow the Pretoria Canna Lily in your garden and it will add a strikingly unique focal point in a tropical garden.