Showing posts with label Ingebourg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ingebourg. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Canna 'Alice McGuigan'


A tall Crozy Group cultivar; dark foliage, upright habit; round stems, coloured purple; panicles of flowers are reflexed, burnt-red rayed with apricot, throat apricot, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals purple, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured purple; tillering is prolific.


Introduced by Malcolm Dalebö, Claines Canna Collection, Worcester, England, EU in 2006. Seedling from C. ‘Ingebourg’ x open.

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Canna 'Ingeborg'


A medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; dark foliage, oval shaped, maroon margin, spreading habit; round stems, coloured purple; flowers are self-coloured orange (RHS 28A), edges regular, style is orange-red, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning; fertile both ways, not known if true to type, not self-pollinating, capsules round; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured pink and purple; tillering is prolific.

Introduced by Wilhelm Pfitzer, Fellbach, Germany, EU in 1916. Awards: 2002 Award of Garden Merit (AGM) at the RHS Outdoor Canna Trials. Synonyms: C. 'Golden Vein', C. 'Golden Vine'