For the past couple of years , I noticed that the Cleopatra; which has green leaves with a few maroon streaks , with yellow and red blossom petals, had a few solid maroon leaves on the entire rhizome. So I took all the solid maroon leaf rhizomes and put them in a pot all to themselves. Now they are blooming for the first time and they are so pretty.
Do your Cleopatras get solid maroon leaves on one rhizome?
Cricket
The Pot of Maroon Leaves is Cleopatra
those are really nice mine are just green paul
Mine are green, too.
I have sent questions to the wholesale/retail company that I bought my cleopatras from.
Cricket you have a very pretty canna.
Patti
that's great! I have had Cleos for many years and never a solid burgu ndy leaf.......
The company said solid maroon leaves was normal for the cleopatra. Some get them and some don't.
I potted up a green leaf cleopatra 2 weeks ago and it has a solid maroon baby leaf emerging from the soil off the same rhizome.. I keep getting lucky.
Does anyone know what Cleopatra is a sport of? My distinctly variegated Cleo of last year is this year a solid burgundy - still very attractive, but not the wildly variegated Cleo I first wanted. Do they often revert? Thanks for any info --
Chris - THGA
My Cleo's are also green with the dark stripe of varigation that we all love to see when the leaves open up. I have never seen a Cleo with sold burgandy foilage, very impressive. I would love to have some of mine "convert" and mix in with the greens................that would cause some "oohs and aahhs"! :-)
Happy Gardnening,
Belinda
But . . but . . but . . . There's no variegation at all on mine this year. I want blotches! I want streaks! I want . . . weirdness!
They are werid they are not stable
Are you talking about yourself Paul or the cannas? LOL.
Both
Sounds like there's a place for Paul in my garden LOL! Gotta watch out for those streaks and blotches, though - get out of that Florida sun!
Its also called Chinese Schicophrenic Canna some guy was selling theam this year on e bay useing that name some sold for 30 bucks LOL Paul
Can deffinately say its a very interesting Canna. Its never boring---always a change from year to year== month to month.
I will be making a Cleopatra Bed next spring.
I already have a Tropicanna and Pretoria Mixed Bed on my new property.
Having to Landscape new property-----Its fun.
A friend of mine said he is going to give me "3 Cleopatra and a burgandy color one that just came up beside the cleo's". I probably won't get the burgandy one after I tell him what I learned here!
Anybody having a rizome to share? I have lots of different seeds and tubers to exchange. Just let me know if you are interested.
