Canna ‘Vainquer’
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Valbonne
Canna ‘Valbonne’
Origin Vilmorin-Andrieux, France
Height Medium
Foliage Green
Form Branching
Flower Red
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering July/August/September/October/Until frosts
Tillering Prolific
Canna ‘Valbonne’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval and cupped shaped, branching habit; flowers are open, self-coloured rose-red, good bloomer, flowers in July until frosts in northern temperate zone, 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.
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Van Houttei
Canna ‘Van Houttei’
Origin Lierval
Height Tall
Foliage Dark
Form Upright
Flower Red
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering August/September/October/Until frosts
Tillering Average
Canna ‘Van Houttei’ is a tall Foliage Group cultivar; green and purple variegated foliage, very large, lanceolate shaped, maroon margin, upright habit; oval main stems, coloured purple; spikes of flowers are erect, self-coloured scarlet, staminodes are small, edges serrated, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in August until frosts in northern temperate zone, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white; tillering is average.
Named for Louis-Benoit Van Houtte, 1810-76, a Belgian horticulturalist and politician . Assembled extensive plant collections on travels in South and Central America. Associated with the Jardin Botanique de Bruxelles, 1836-8. In 1839, moved to Gentbrugge, where he founded the Ecole d’Horticulture and the horticultural journal founded Flora des serres et des Jardins de l’Europe.
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Variegated Group
The Canna Variegated Group caters for cultivars with variegated foliage, regardless of what other Group they may belong to. The variegated group is not intended to include cultivars with colour zonation in their flowers,
There are many canna cultivars that have some green and purple variegation, and these are traditionally described as being ‘dark’, and this grouping is for those cultivars that have different colouring or are extreme examples of the green and purple canna trait.
Variegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves, and variegated leaves occur rarely in nature, and is a trait normally induced by cultivar mutation.
Other than the green and purple striata, almost all of the variegated cannas are members of the Italian Group, which is derived from the crossing of Canna flaccida with the established Crozy Group. The Italian Group also supplies Canna ‘Cleopatra’, which is significant as the only chimera in the canna family. The exception to the Italian Group trait is Canna ‘Stuttgart’, which sometimes reverts to Canna ‘Annei’ from whence it originated.
Variegated plants have long been valued by gardeners, as the usually lighter-coloured variegation can ‘lift’ what would otherwise be blocks of solid green foliage. Many gardening societies have specialist variegated plants groups, such as the Hardy Plant Society’s Variegated Plant Special Interest Group in the UK. Several gardening books which deal exclusively with variegated plants are available.
Because the variegation is due to the presence of two kinds of plant tissue, propagating the canna plant must be by a vegetative method of propagation that preserves both types of tissue in relation to each other. The only vegetative method that succeeds with cannas is the division of rhizomes, as other methods such as stem cuttings and bud and stem grafting will fail totally.
See also: Canna Cultivar Groups
Verdi
Canna ‘Verdi’
syns Brighton Orange, Eric Neubert, Eric Newbert, Grand Duc, Saumur
(Crozy Group)
Origin KAPITEYN L.
Height Medium
Foliage Dark
Form Branching
Flower Orange
Blooming Outstanding bloomer
Flowering June/July/August/September/October/Until frosts
Tillering Average
Awards Award of Garden Merit (AGM) 2002
Canna ‘Verdi’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; bronze foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, maroon margin, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured purple; triangular flower stalks, coloured purple; flowers are open, self-coloured red-orange (32A), staminodes are medium size, edges lightly frilled, fully self-cleaning, outstanding bloomer, flowers in June until frosts in northern temperate zone, 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.
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Vermilion
Canna ‘Vermilion’
Origin Quality Gladiolus Gardens
Height Medium
Foliage Dark
Form Branching
Flower Red
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering July/August/September/October/Until frosts
Canna ‘Vermilion’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; bronze foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, branching habit; round main stems, coloured purple; clusters of flowers are open, self-coloured vermilion, staminodes are medium size, edges lightly frilled, stamen is flecked with gold, style is red, petals red, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in July until frosts in northern temperate zone, 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 purple.
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Vesuv
Canna ‘Vesuv’
Origin CROZY Antoine
Height Medium
Foliage Green
Form Branching
Flower Multi-coloured
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering July/August/September/October/Until frosts
Tillering Prolific
Canna ‘Vesuv’ is a medium sized Foliage Group cultivar; light green foliage, ovoid shaped, white margin, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are erect, red and orange, staminodes are long and narrow, petals red, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in July until frosts in northern temperate zone, 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.
Really looks like a volcano in full flight. Although primarily a foliage plant this one has very special flowers as well.
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Victor Hugo
Canna ‘Victor Hugo’
Origin CROZY Antoine
Height Medium
Foliage Green
Form Spreading
Flower Red
Blooming Low bloomer
Flowering August/September/October/Until frosts
Tillering Average
Canna ‘Victor Hugo’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, white margin, spreading habit; round main stems, coloured green + purple; triangular flower stalks, coloured green; flowers are open, scarlet with a narrow violet margin, throat salmon-red, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, stamen is gold, style is gold, petals red, partial self-cleaning, low bloomer, flowers in August until frosts in northern temperate zone, 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.
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Villedieu-Les-Poȇles
Canna ‘Villedieu-Les-Poȇles’
Origin DALEBØ Thor
Height Medium
Foliage Green
Form Arching
Flower Red
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering July through until frosts
Tillering Good
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Vilmorin-Andreaux
Vilmorin-Andrieux is a French seed producer. The company has a long history in France, where it was family-controlled for almost two centuries, and was a world leader in breeding and producing plants and seeds. Today it specialises in seed production, and the largest plant breeding and seed company in the European Union.
Vilmorin was founded as a plant and seed boutique in 1743 by seed expert Claude Geoffroy and her husband Pierre Andrieux, the chief seed supplier and botanist to King Louis XV. The store was located on the quai de la Mégisserie, a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The company grew in leaps and bounds and purchased a former hunting lodge of Louis XIV of France, which became known for its gardens and arboretum, and the Vilmorin company was headquartered in Verrières-le-Buisson, where it was led by a succession of Vilmorin heirs.
The company produced the first seed catalogue for farmers and academics. In 1856, Louis de Vilmorin published “Note on the Creation of a New Race of Beetroot and Considerations on Heredity in Plants”, establishing the theoretical groundwork for the modern seed-breeding industry. The company’s leaders continued to publish numerous botanical academic articles throughout the company’s early history.
The craze for cannas began in the 1850’s, and the company was active in the breeding and sale of cannas, until in 1972 the company was sold, and following a restructuring Vilmorin focused on vegetable seeds and trees for professionals (growers, seed producers, and nurseries) and is no longer active in breeding canna..