'Picasso' Canna

This short canna is pure fun with it's brightly-speckled yellow flowers. I run out each morning to see how it changes as it opens.

August 3, 2007 - it's just beginning to open.

August 4, 2007 - Whoa! Big bunch of orange today!

This is the second year for this canna. Both years it has produced some yellow and some orange petals, which is not what I expected. The only pics I have seen of this one feature all yellow flowers with reddish/orange spots.


I think the two-colors on the same plant are wildly interesting. It reminds me of a circus clown, it's so outrageous.

August 5, 2007 -Look at today's petals--1/2 solid orange and 1/2 speckled yellow...split right down the middle.

Here it is with yellow callas--a wonderful combination.
All cannas are not meant to play a starring role. Look at this red one. It's a "yawn" if ever I've seen one. You wouldn't glance twice at it. The leaves are dull, the flower's dull...it'll put you right to sleep if you stare too long.
So I moved the whole container.
Even co-stars win academy awards!

Not to be upstaged by Picasso, Tropicanna burst forth today in all his orange glory.


We still have not had a drop of rain. Thank goodness I still have my deck containers to enjoy!