Canna ‘Cheerfulness’
Group(s): Crozy Group, Heritage Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Orange
Blooming: Good bloomer
Period: Summer until frosts
Foliage: Green
Form: Branching
Tillering: Good
Availability: Specialist growers
Canna (Balisier) ‘Cheerfulness’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, elliptical shaped, acute apex, branching habit; flowers are open, tangerine-orange with a gold margin, throat cream, staminodes are large, edges frilled, petals green, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in 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 ‘Cheerfulness’ is available from specialist growers.
Thor Dalebø