Description

Canna Cleopatra Yellow is a tropical showstopper with bright golden-yellow blooms, often enhanced with freckling, speckling, or flashes of deeper colour (common in Cleopatra types depending on parentage). Standing tall with bold paddle leaves, it brings instant exotic structure to Irish summer borders, thriving in heat and moisture with a long season presence from mid-summer to early autumn. Perfect for architectural beds, hotel entrances, tropical displays, municipal summer planting, and patio planters where big foliage and bold colour do the talking. Cannas offer nectar through open flower throats, giving access to bees, hoverflies, and butterflies, especially during warm weather. For biodiversity-friendly planting, mix with Salvia, Dahlia (open forms), Verbena, Helenium, Crocosmia and ornamental grasses. Performs best in full sun, moisture-retentive fertile soil, and responds strongly to feeding. In mild areas cannas overwinter in-ground with mulch, otherwise lift rhizomes for frost-free storage.