Ombersley

Canna 'Ombersley'

Canna 'Ombersley'

(Premier Group)
[Country Life Series]

Origin DALEBØ Thor
Parentage unknown
Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm
Foliage Green
Form Branching
Flower Orange
Blooming Outstanding bloomer
Flowering Early summer to frosts
Tillering Average
Available Specialist

Introduced by Thor Dalebø of Normandy, France in 2006, Canna 'Ombersley' is a medium sized Premier Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, transparent margin, branching habit; triangular main stems, coloured green; oval flower stalks, coloured green; flowers are cupped, orange tinged with red, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals red with farina, fully self-cleaning, outstanding bloomer, flowers in early summer until frosts, 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 'Ombersley' is available from specialist growers.

Fades to interesting pale shades, never quite the same twice!

The Kings Arms, Ombersley - a favourite eating place

Ombersley is a village and civil parish in Wychavon district, in the county of Worcestershire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Holt Fleet, where Thomas Telford's 1828 Holt Fleet Bridge crosses the River Severn.

The first known reference to the village was the granting of a Charter to Abbot Egwin, later Saint Egwin, of Evesham Abbey in 706 AD. This was the Charter of King Æthelweard of the Hwicce, which granted twelve cassates in Ombersley to the Benedictine Abbey at Evesham.

During the reign of William the Conqueror, the Domesday Book indicates the village was within an exclave of the ancient hundred of Fishborough in 1086 and remained the property of the Abbey of Evesham (Saint Mary). It remained the property of the abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th century. By 1848 the village was within the parish of Ombersley (St. Ambrose), in the hundred of Oswaldslow.

Note: Originally, when the term 'hundred' was introduced by the Saxons between 613 and 1017 , a hundred was a unit of lands that was large enough to support about 100 families, headed by a hundred-man or hundred eolder. This man was responsible for administration, justice, raising troops, and commanding them. The office was not hereditary, but by the 10th century it had become restricted to certain families. Contrary to my children's beliefs, I was not born until later.

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