Canna ‘Avant Garde’
Group(s): Crozy Group, Heritage Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Yellow
Blooming: Good bloomer
Period: Late summer until frosts
Foliage: Green
Form: Branching
Tillering: Good
Availability: Specialist growers
Canna (Balisier) ‘Avant Garde’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; mid green foliage, ovoid shaped, acute apex, branching habit; clusters of flowers are open, sulphur-yellow heavily spotted with apricot-orange, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals green, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in late summer until frosts, 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 pink; tillering is good.
Canna ‘Avant Garde’ is available from specialist growers.
Thor Dalebø