Canna ‘Picasso’

Canna ‘Picasso’

Group(s): Crozy Group

Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Multi-coloured
Blooming: Good bloomer
Foliage: Green
Form: Spreading
Tillering: Average

Awards: AGM from RHS in 2002
Availability: Specialist growers

Canna (Balisier) ‘Picasso’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, white margin, spreading habit; oval main stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, lemon heavily spotted with red, staminodes are large, edges lightly frilled, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and purple; tillering is average.

Canna ‘Picasso’was awarded AGM from RHS in 2002; is available from specialist growers.

AGM after trial at Wisley 2002 from Hart Cannas. Yellow with red spots, but not what everybody calls ‘Picasso’Thor Dalebø

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