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Canna ‘Shenandoah’
Group(s): Crozy Group, Heritage Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Pink
Foliage: Dark
Form: Upright
Tillering: Average
Origin: WINTZER Antoine
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society, England – Canna Trial 2002, granted Award of garden Merit (AGM).
Availability: Specialist growers
Introduced by Antoine Wintzer of The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA in 1894, Canna (Balisier) ‘Shenandoah’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; bronze foliage, lanceolate shaped, maroon margin, upright habit; triangular main stems, coloured purple; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured salmon, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, 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 pink and purple; tillering is average.
Canna ‘Shenandoah’was awarded Royal Horticultural Society, England – Canna Trial 2002, granted Award of garden Merit (AGM).; is available from specialist growers.
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