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| Canna 'Thorvald Dalebø' |
Origin DALEBØ Thor
Parentage C. 'Dondoblütrot' x C. 'Jessie Dalebø'
Height Small, under 3ft/90cm
Foliage Green
Form Branching
Flower Red
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering Summer to frosts
Tillering Average
Available Specialist
Introduced by Thor Dalebø of Normandy, France in 2006, Canna 'Thorvald Dalebø' is a small Premier Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, maroon margin, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured green + farina; triangular flower stalks, coloured green + farina; flowers are open, self-coloured burnt-red, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals red with farina, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in summer until frosts, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are tuber-like groups, coloured purple; tillering is average.
Canna 'Thorvald Dalebø' is available from specialist growers; breeding is Canna 'Dondoblütrot' x Canna 'Jessie Dalebø'.
I named this one for my Bestefar (best-father, grandfather) in Norway. He went to sea at 12 years of age as a cooks boy, then on windjammers around Cape Horn to Australia and finished his long sailing career as a Captain on the Canadian Great Lakes, but returning home to Norway before the German Invasion, to be with his family through the hell that Germany forced on Norway for nearly six years of Nazi occupation and sharing the wartime death of two of his sons with my Bestemor.
As a boy Thorvald taught me to tie knots from just a few years old (I have forgotten most of them), let me help with his daily chores, walked me down to the quay as boats came into the harbour, and I worshipped the very ground he walked on.
I still have Thorvald's best walking-out, walking stick made from a sharks backbone and collected on his Pacific voyages, but I haven't yet accepted the need for a walking stick, so it stays in the hall waiting for me to age a bit more.
References
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