Origin SPRENGER Karl
Parentage unknown
Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm
Foliage Dark
Flower Bi-coloured
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering Early summer to frosts
Tillering Average
Awards 1898 RHS-A.M., and 2002 RHS-AGM.
Available Specialist
Introduced by Karl Sprenger of Messrs Dammann et Cie, Italy in 1898, Canna 'La France' is a medium sized Italian Group cultivar; bronze foliage, oval shaped, acute apex; round main stems, coloured purple; half-round flower stalks, coloured bronze; clusters of flowers are open, red-orange with a salmon-red blush, throat yellow, staminodes are large, edges frilled, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, good 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 purple; tillering is average.
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Canna 'La France' was awarded in 1898 the RHS-Award of Merit, and in 2002 the RHS Award of Garden Merit and is still
available from specialist growers.
Under the synonym of Canna 'General Eisenhower', won the Award of Garden Merit (AGM) at the 2002 RHS outdoor Canna Trials.
In my opinion, after after collecting, growing, breeding, photographing and researching Canna for nearly 30 years, this is one of the most beautiful of all cannas of all time.
The judges at the 2002 Royal Horticulture Societies Canna Trials agreed with me when they awarded the cultivar the prestigious Award of Garden Merit. The fact that so many nurserymen over the last century, have tried to rename it confirms the unique desirability of this canna cultivar.
References
RHS Journal of 1898-9
Damman & Cie, 1899
La France - 1896
About 4 feet high. Numerous stalks. Broad lanceolate leaves, very large, of a splendid purple and shining as if varnished. Very large and regular flowers similar to the ?? Austria", of a brillant yellowish scarlet. Unique for its beauty.
Railton & Co., Australia, 1900-1903
LA FRANCE. Similar to America, but with still darker foliage and of more compact habit; flowers orange scarlet. 1/6 each
RHS Journal of 1907-8
RHS Journal of 1908-9
Featured in 1908 outdoor trials at Wisley.
Orchid-flowered, classified under dark foliage and flowers orange-red.
L. Clause Catalogue, Spring 1929
La France. – Feuillage pourpre noir. Fleur saumon nuancé vermillon. Haut. 1 m. 50.
Tropical Plants and Gardening, H.F. MacMillan, 1935
Fls scarlet with yellow throat, tinted foliage.
Tropical Planting and Gardening, H.F. MacMillan, 5th Edition, 1954
Bronze or purple- leaved, flowers scarlet with red throat.
Hart Canna, 2000, Internet October 2000
Flowers orange red, yellow at the throat. Leaves brown. Tall.
KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004
Karl Sprenger, 1898; flowers orange-red, yellow at the throat, leaves brown, height over 80 cm. A.M.-R.H.S. 1898
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