Credit: Marcelle Sheppard

Wine and Roses

Canna ‘Wine and Roses’

(Crozy Group)

Origin SHEPPARD Marcelle
Height Small
Foliage Dark
Form Spreading
Flower Pink
Blooming Outstanding bloomer
Flowering June/July/August/September/October/Until frosts
Tillering Average

Canna ‘Wine and Roses’ is a small Crozy Group cultivar; purple foliage, ovoid shaped, spreading habit; oval main stems, coloured purple + farina; triangular flower stalks, coloured purple; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured pink, staminodes are large, edges irregular, petals purple with farina, 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 purple; tillering is average.

Canna ‘Wine and Roses’ Credit: Marcelle Sheppard
References
Rivendell Botanic Garden, List January 2001
Hot pink flowers; leaves red, blue and green. Dwarf.