Welcome to Karchesky Canna Blog


We grow our cannas cold climate Pennsylvania USA zone 6/5 at a higher elevation and where winters are cold but summers can be quite warm. Cannas grow very well here from May through October until frost takes them around Halloween.
Our naturally rich Appalachian soil well amended with organic compost and our area's warm sultry summers lend to excellent yields each season.

Cannas are tropical plants that can be grown very well in many non-tropical parts of the world. Cannas are grown in summer in every state of the USA with their unsurpassed beauty enjoyed in both warm and cooler climates.

Our Canna Blog features our own gorgeous cannas
as well as many older and heirloom varieties we also grow.

At the bottom of each page click 'Older' Posts' to go to the next page and scroll down to see them all.
Enjoy the cannas!!

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Our Current Growing Collection

Enjoy your stroll through our cannas!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

canna 'Antique Brass'

Canna 'Antique Brass offers large yellow gold blooms with rust red centers, rosey cream buds, and larger bronzed olive leaves with bronze midribs. Medium height to about 50".
Very pretty colour combination.
Alice Harris, USA 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

canna 'Transvaal'

Canna 'Transvaal' offers bi-colour rich golden blooms with rich raspberry red centers that bleed onto the petals to at times almost obliterate the gold. Medium bluish green leaves with white margins. Medium height to about 55"
Alice Harris, USA 2011


Friday, March 18, 2011

canna 'Joker'

Tall canna 'Joker' offers larger open type red spotted golden red hummingbird attractive blooms held high above the foliage. Olive maroon leaves with deep maroon midribs.Tall height to about 8 ft. A very lovely tall canna with larger blooms.
Alice Harris, USA 2011



canna 'Cardinal Sinn'

Tall canna 'Cardinal Sinn' offers large intense red "open" heads with scalloped petals that bloom up the stem. Dark buds and budstems. Large lance-shaped rich green leaves. Very lovely intense Christmas colour combination. Blooms continuously. Hummingbird attractive. Tall height to about 8 ft.
Alice Harris, USA 2008


canna 'Mother's Day Pink'

Canna 'Mother's Day Pink' is the colour of the corsages Daughters once wore in honour of their living mothers on Mother's Day. Larger pure pink blooms and bluish green leaves. Shorter medium height to about 50".
Delicate and lovely.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2011

Friday, March 11, 2011

canna 'Rose Butterflies'

Canna 'Rose Butterflies' boasts sprays of open type bright deep rose blooms that are darker at the centers. Deep rose buds and medium green leaves with white midribs and margins. Blooms with multiple heads open at once. Very pretty! Height to about 5'
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2011