Canna ‘Napoleon’
Group(s): Aquatic Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Pink
Blooming: Good bloomer
Period: Early summer until frosts
Foliage: Green
Form: Branching
Tillering: Slow
Availability: Specialist growers
Canna (Balisier) ‘Napoleon’ is a medium sized aquatic cultivar, equally at home as a water marginal or in the border; dark green foliage, lanceolate shaped, acute apex, white margin, branching habit; clusters of flowers are open, apricot-orange rayed with deep-pink, staminodes are narrow, edges regular, petals green, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in early summer until frosts, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured pink and purple; tillering is slow.
Canna ‘Napoleon’ is available from specialist growers.
Thor Dalebø