ORIGIN Herb KELLY HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres FOLIAGE Green FLOWER Multi-coloured
Canna ‘Carousel’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage; flowers are light orange streaked with yellow, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type.
Turns pink with white streaks as the flower ages. A flower stalk will have the entire range of colours as the newer flowers emerge within the older flowers. Available from a few nurseries in the USA.
Our earliest reference to this specimen is Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas.
ORIGIN Kelly, Herb, 1989 HEIGHT Small, under 1 metre FOLIAGE Green FLOWER Multi-coloured
Canna ‘China Doll’ is a small Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped; oval stems, coloured green; flowers are open, yellow heavily spotted with small red spots, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, 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.
References
Kelly's Plant World, California, USA. 1989
Flowers yellow with tiny red spots.Green foliage. Height 2-4 ft. Breeder: Herb Kelly, USA
OriginKELLY Herb HeightSmall FoliageGreen FlowerMulti-coloured
Canna ‘Freckles’ is a small Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, branching habit; clusters of flowers are open, lemon with red spots, 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 globose.
Canna ‘Musafolia Grande’ is a giant Foliage Group cultivar; green and purple variegated foliage, large, oval shaped, maroon margin, branching habit; half-round main stems, coloured green + purple; spikes of flowers are erect, self-coloured orange-red, staminodes are long and narrow, edges regular, petals red with farina, fully self-cleaning, average bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not true to type, self-pollinating, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 7 cm in diameter, coloured purple; tillering is prolific.
Small orange flowers. From Venezuala. Huge. Foliage green. Height 7-9 ft.
Brockings Exotics Catalogue, 1997
(T) This one is a must for those that like gigantic foliage or are creating an exotic garden. The huge, wavy, green leaves are finely rimmed with maroon and matched by dark ribs and stems.
Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas
(T) For the lush foliage effect, this is one of the best! In most seasons it will probably reach at least 2·4m (8ft) and so should be used as a specimen plant or for the back of the border. It occasionally rewards the patient gardener with small, red-orange flowers at the end of the year, although it would not normally be grown for its floral effect. It is probably a variant of ‘Musifolia’ and undoubtedly better and easier to grow. In particular, it makes more substantial rhizomes, which are easier to overwinter.
OriginKELLY Herb HeightMedium FoliageGreen FormUpright FlowerPink BloomingGood bloomer TilleringSlow
Canna ‘Panache’ is a medium sized aquatic cultivar, equally at home as a water marginal or in the border; glaucous green foliage, lanceolate shaped, upright habit; oval main stems, coloured green; triangular flower stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, apricot and pink, staminodes are narrow, edges regular, petals red, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not true to type, self-pollinating, capsules globose; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white and pink; tillering is slow.
Although a simple, aquatic cultivar, this is one of the best sellers when made available for sale. Aquatic cultivars have thin, long rhizomes which dry-out quickly over-winter and they are not easily handled, stored and packaged by the major canna growers.
(T) narrow green leaves, very delicate small flowers, soft apricot shading to pink. Quite stunning.
Plant Delights Nursery, Inc., 2000
This Herb Kelly introduction is one of the truly “hot” new Cannas. We received this Canna from our garden writer friend, Pamela Harper, who got it from famed designer Wayne Winterrowd, who extolled the virtues of ‘Panache’ in the September 1997 Horticulture Magazine. The narrow, pointed, gray green leaves adorn the upright stalk to 6 feet. Atop the clump through summer and into fall are charming, narrow, salmon pink flowers (darker in the center). This vigorous grower even spreads fast enough for you to share plenty. This is a C. glauca hybrid which can grow in standing water or in regular garden soil. ($18) ($15 in 2002)
Herb Kelly. Quite a novelty. Tall and slender growing, with bright green lance-shaped leaves. Smallish thin petalled pale cream wide-open flowers with a streaky maroon centre. Looks somewhat like a Water Canna, both in leaf and flower, and may be grown in water (as may many Cannas). Quite tall, over 2m.
Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas
(T) This lovely Canna is quite distinct from almost any other described in this list and proves that not all Cannas are brash. It has narrow, glaucous-green leaves and small, very delicate flowers in open trusses. The four petals are long and thin and their wide spacing creates a very open, spidery effect. The colour is a soft apricot, shading to deep pink in the throat. The overriding effect is light and open like a small cloud of delicate moths. It was introduced by Herb Kelly. In France, where panaché means variegated, the name is also confusingly used to refer to ‘Pretoria’ and other variegated Cannas.
Podgora Gardens, Sonja Mrsich, North Island, New Zealand. Catalogue
Creamy-pink petals and frangipane flowers. Green leaves. Found growing in a National Trust Garden in New Zealand under the name of ‘Highwie’. 100cm.
Rivendell Botanic Garden, List January 2001
Creamy pink flowers, blue leaves, tall.
KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004
Introduced by Herb Kelly, before 1997. Narrow pointed grey green leaves; narrow salmon pink flowers. A Cannaglauca hybrid. (Plant Delights Nursery, Raleigh, North Carolia, USA. 5 Feb 2002)
Summary: A medium sized clump of narrow green leaves crowned by gorgeous small flowers, soft apricot fading to pink.
Size: To 1.5m.
Flower: Small flowers, soft apricot fading to pink.
Foliage: Narrow green leaves, showing a relationship with C. glauca.
Origin: Introduced by Kent Kelly.
A DISCUSSION ON ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE CANNACEAE FAMILY; OF INTEREST TO GARDENERS, COLLECTORS, AND PROFESSIONALS ALIKE.
