Canna ‘M. Holtz’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; spikes of flowers are open, gold heavily spotted with burnt-red, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, stamen is burnt-red, style is burnt-red, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, outstanding bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and purple.
Canna ‘Madame Angèle Martin’ is a medium sized Premier Group cultivar; dark foliage, ovoid shaped, maroon margin, branching habit; triangular main stems, coloured green + purple; flowers are open, salmon tinged with yellow, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals green, 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 white; tillering is average.
Old House Garden, Ann Arbor, Michigan Internet, November, 2000
Introduced in 1915. Angelic flowers – golden-apricot suffused with pink, like a Tahitian sunrise. And angelic foliage – ‘pale pewter-bronze’, to quote my friend Ian Cooke of the British National Collection of Cannas. And exceptionally rare, having just been reintroduced by us from France. How can you resist? 3-5 feet (1, $8.25 – 10, $61.00).
Medium height, bronze foliage. Large flowers of pure pinky apricot. £10.00 for 3 rhizomes.
Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas
(T) A lovely old cultivar with flowers in soft apricot, blushed with rose. The foliage is a pale pewter-bronze. Altogether the effect is very subtle. It was raised by Vilmorin-Andrieux in 1915. Available in British and European nurseries.
Rivendell Botanic Garden, List January 2001
Orange flowers, reddish green leaves.
French Grown Stock
1.4m. Dark foliage. Pale pink flowers.
KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004
Vilmorin-Andrieux, 1915; flowers salmon-pink, tinged yellow, leaves brown, height over 80 cm.
Summary: David Clulow in Venezuela reports: “A superb parent as it is dominant for self cleaning as are virtually all its hybrids, even with the worst non self cleaning mate, have produced seedlings which are all self cleaning.” A medium sized, solid clumper this bronze leaved icon produces really special salmon-pink blooms tinged with yellow. It has lasted the course of time because of its special qualities.
Size: 140-160cms (4’6″-5’3″)
Flower: Salmon-pink, tinged yellow.
Foliage: Brown leaves.
Origin: Vilmorin-Andrieux, France, EU, 1915.
OriginHoward & Smith HeightMedium FoliageGreen FormBranching FlowerPink BloomingAverage bloomer TilleringSlow
Canna ‘Madame Butterfly’ is a medium sized Premier Group cultivar; dark green foliage, oblong shaped, green margin, branching habit; flowers are cupped, ivory and pale pink, staminodes are large, edges lightly frilled, fully self-cleaning, average 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 pink; tillering is slow.
Palest of the Grand Opera Series with large, gladiolus-like flowers in ivory, overlaid with shell-pink. It has a curious, furled, rounded flower shape with some similarity to a camellia.
Canna ‘Madame Butterfly’ is a member of the Grand Opera Series, originally developed by Howard and Smith Nursery of Los Angeles, California in the 1930’s. Wayside Gardens later purchased the series and added their own ‘Rosenkavalier’. All cultivars in the series have large flowers in pastel shades, green foliage and are quite tall.
Wayside Gardens. One of the “Grand Opera” series. Flowers are large and very pale pastel pink. Leaves green. Tall, over 1·5m.
Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas
(M) This is the palest of the series with large, gladiolus-like flowers in ivory, overlaid with shell-pink. (The innocent young ‘Butterfly’?). It has a curious furled, rounded flower shape with some similarity to a camellia.
Rivendell Botanic Garden, List January 2001
Soft yellow flowers spotted red; green leaves. Medium height.
KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004
Wayside Gardens; flowers pale yellow, shaded pink, leaves green, height over 80 cm.
Summary: Palest of the Grand Opera Series with large, gladiolus-like flowers in ivory, overlaid with shell-pink. It has a curious, furled, rounded flower shape with some similarity to a camellia.
Size: Medium height
Flower: Palest of the Grand Opera Series with large, gladiolus-like flowers in ivory, overlaid with shell-pink. It has a curious, furled, rounded flower shape with some similarity to a camellia.
Foliage: Green leaves.
Origin: A member of the Grand Opera Series, originally developed by Howard and Smith Nursery of Los Angeles, California in the 1930’s. Wayside Gardens later purchased the series and added their own ‘Rosenkavalier’. All cultivars in the series have large flowers in pastel shades, green foliage and are quite tall.
Canna ‘Madame Chabanne’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; round main stems, coloured green; half-round flower stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, yellow with pink spots, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, style is yellow, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, outstanding 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; tillering is average.
115. Madame Chabanne (Dammann). — G.[ed. Gladiolus-type]
Canna ‘Madame Chabanne’
Yellow, lightly spotted with pink ; flowers and truss poor ; foliage green ; 3 feet.
RHS Journal of 1908-9
Featured in 1908 outdoor trials at Wisley.
Gladiolus-flowered, classified under green foliage and flowers yellow, faintly spotted, or a little marked with pink.
OriginCROZY Antoine, 1889 HeightSmall FoliageGreen FormBranching FlowerRed BloomingOutstanding bloomer FloweringJuly through until frosts TilleringProlific AwardsRHS Award of Merit in 1890 AvailableSpecialist growers only
Canna ‘Madame Legris’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, white margin, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured green; triangular flower stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, yellow heavily spotted with red, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals green, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules round; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and pink; tillering is average.
Canna ‘Madame Paul Cazeneuve’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; bronze foliage, oval shaped, maroon margin, spreading habit; oval main stems, coloured purple; flowers are open, self-coloured pink, throat pink with yellow stripes, staminodes are large, edges regular, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, outstanding 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 pink and purple; tillering is prolific.
A Crozy, 1902. Apricot flowers. Bronze foliage. Tall, 1·5m.
Old House Garden, Ann Arbor, Michigan Internet, November, 2000
Like her kindred spirit ‘Mme. Casaneuve’ is sensual, ethereal, lovely, and rare. In his 1909 Das Geschlecht der Canna, Árpád Mühle praised her ‘luxurious’ bronze foliage and ‘large, flesh-pink’ flowers shaded with apricot and gold. Returned from France. One look and I fell in love 3-5 feet. (1, $8.25 – 10, $61)
Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas
(M) This cultivar has peachy-pink flowers and bronze foliage. It is very similar to ‘Madame Angèle Martin’ and was raised by A. Crozy in 1902.
Rivendell Botanic Garden, List January 2001
Peach flowers, red-blue leaves.
KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004
A. Crozy, 1902; flowers azalea-pink (RHS 38B), pink-yellow striped towards centre, leaves brown, height over 80 cm.
OriginLOMBARD F. HeightMedium FoliageGreen FormSpreading FlowerPink BloomingLow bloomer TilleringAverage
Canna ‘Mademoiselle Rose Lombard’ is a medium sized Foliage Group cultivar; green foliage, very large, oval-acuminate shaped, spreading habit; oval main stems, coloured green; round flower stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured pale pink, throat salmon, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, labellum is old-rose, stamen is canary-yellow speckled with pale pink, style is canary-yellow, petals green, fully self-cleaning, low bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; seed is sterile, pollen is fertile; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and pink; tillering is average.
The breeder succeeded in using pollen from C. ‘Ehmanni’ on other existing hybrids, to obtain many different foliage plants with large flowers. The leaves are a magnificent Musa form, the flowers just as large as those of C. ‘Ehmanni’; but they do not produce as many flowers as the Crozy Group.
