Showing posts with label Roi Soliel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roi Soliel. Show all posts

Friday, 13 August 2010

Canna 'Roi Soliel'


A medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, branching habit; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured cardinal-red, throat cardinal-red with gold spots, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning; 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 average.
Introduced by Vilmorin-Andrieux, France in 1930, and granted the Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the Royal Horticultural Society, England in their Canna Trial held in 2002,.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Canna 'Roi Soleil'


A medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, branching habit; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured cardinal-red, throat cardinal-red with gold spots, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning; 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 average.

Introduced by Vilmorin-Andrieux, France in 1930, and granted Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the Royal Horticultural Society, England in their Canna Trial held in 2002,.