Tuesday 20 November 2007

Canna 'Mersey'

New introductions

Canna 'Mersey'

A medium sized aquatic cultivar, equally at home as a water marginal or in the border; light green foliage, lanceolate shaped, upright habit; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured cerise-pink, staminodes are long and narrow, edges irregular, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white and pink; tillering is average. Introduced by Malcolm Dalebö, Claines Canna Collection, Worcester, England, EU in 2007.

The breeding is Canna 'Avon' x C. 'Wye'

2 comments:

  1. This is an interesting one Malcolm. Have your seasons been sunny enough the past couple of years to enable you to judge the height this will grow?

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  2. In short, no ;o)

    Last year, its first year it made about 1m. This year it was just short of that, but I'm sure that in Oz it would make well above 1m.

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