General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Herb/Forb
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| Life cycle: |
Perennial
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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| Flowers: |
Showy
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| Flower Time: |
Summer
Late summer or early fall
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| Underground structures: |
Rhizome
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| Uses: |
Guardian plant
Vegetable
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| Wildlife Attractant: |
Bees
Hummingbirds
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| Propagation: Other methods: |
Division
Offsets
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| Containers: |
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Posted by
FleudeLisCanna (Tenterfield NSW Australia) on Dec 28, 2014 9:47 PM concerning plant:
C. 'En Avant': often mislabeled or misnamed as C. 'Cancer' and sometimes as C. 'J.B. van der Schott ' or even C. 'Coq d'Or.' It does have another synonym of C. 'La Garoupe'.
It was introduced by Messrs Vilmorin-Andrieux in 1921.
'En Avant' is a medium height canna, with green foliage that has a distinctive white edge on the leaves, which does not tiller prolifically, but does get a bit "messy" in its growth, often having its flower stems bend towards the ground just when the flower heads are at their best! The spent flowers also tend to "hang on" for ages, so it does need a bit of help cleaning up after flowering.
It produces fertile, easy-to-grow seeds and is one of very few cannas to produce true-to-type flowers from seed, although nothing grown from seed is EXACTLY genetically the same as the parents.
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