Canna indica Pink President - Indian shot

The Canna 'Pink President' is a variety of modest stature that will charm with its long and magnificent summer flowering in a fresh and vibrant pink. It stands above ample green-blue foliage veined with darker green, in the form of spikes adorned with numerous large flowers reminiscent of gladioli. An easy plant to grow in rich and moist soil, which has its place on a very sunny terrace or in an exotic and lush garden.

The Canna x indica 'Pink President' is a herbaceous rhizomatous plant of the cannaceae family. It is a hybrid variety. Its ancestors are native to tropical areas of Asia and America. This canna quickly forms a clump measuring 75-80 cm (30-32in) in height and occupying about 60 cm (24in) of space. It forms large, entire, broad, oblong leaves with sheathing at the base. The lamina is a beautiful green-blue colou and entirely traversed by darker veins. The flowering, which occurs in summer, takes place from July-August to September-October, in the form of spikes of pink flowers. Each flower, measuring 8 to 10 cm (3 to 4in) in diameter, asymmetrical, is composed of3 petals fused at the base, 3 sepals and visible stamens. The plant easily multiplies vegetatively, by producing numerous shoots.

The Canna 'Pink President' allows for sumptuous compositions in containers, with a very exotic appearance, alongside agapanthus, amaranths and cosmos. It forms a beautiful combination with a banana tree or bamboo. Hybrid Cannas are majestic and colourful plants. The taller varieties are ideal for spicing up the back of borders for the taller ones, while the smaller varieties are ideal for brightening up terraces and balconies. Their cultivation is within everyone's reach. Consider planting them in a mass with about ten bulbs, of the same variety or by mixing green and purple foliage. Use them to adorn a corner of a pond in the company of colocasias, ferns, and ground cover species such as helxines or golden creeping jenny lysimachus. Cultivate this plant like a Dahlia. Dig up the rhizomes before the frosts and replant them in spring.