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!

Saturday, May 29, 2010

canna 'Cleopatra'

Canna 'Cleopatra' is a gorgeous heirloom random bi-colour and spotted large flowering canna with occasional maroon streaked green foliage. Medium height to about 50".
Many thanks to Randy so we could have her growing here again :)


Thursday, May 20, 2010

canna 'Chocolate Cherry'

Canna 'Chocolate Cherry' boasts wide open rich red blooms above rich chocolate foliage.
Chocolate stems, stems, and bud stems. Medium height to about 5'.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2006

canna 'Star Spangled'

Canna 'Star Spangled' boasts larger rich golden blooms heavily spotted in red to solid red at the flower center. Rich green leaves with slight spooning. Shorter height.
Very showy excellent little canna.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010


Monday, May 10, 2010

canna 'Wisley Dwarf'

Canna 'Wisley Dwarf' is a bright red-orange and yellow smaller flower species type canna. Bushed flower heads are held on strong wirey stems. Rich green leaves with white margins. Shorter medium height. Hummingbird attractive. Height to about 40".

Saturday, May 8, 2010

canna 'Paparazzi'

Canna 'Paparazzi' offers rich golden blooms heavily spotted in rust red. Medium green leaves have a shiny appearance. The form of this canna has a "thickness" to it's structure. Heavy bloomer. Shorter medium height to about 48".
Hybridizer: Sherry Rogers, USA


Tuesday, April 13, 2010

canna 'Rosalinda'

Gorgeous heirloom canna 'Rosalinda' offers pale yellow white blooms with rose-red centers that'bleed' onto the petals. Slight;y spooned green leaves. Shorter height to about 4 ft.
Hybridizer: Rosalinda Sarver, USA

Thursday, April 8, 2010

canna 'Chinese Coral'

Lovely heirloom canna 'Chinese Coral' offers hot coral buds that open to large delicate coral pink blooms. Large lighter bluish green leaves. Good structure. Beautiful canna.
Height to about 5'


Wednesday, April 7, 2010

canna 'Thai Shimmer'

Lovely canna 'Thai Shimmer' offers large full heads of creamy white peppered pink that open from creamy yellow buds. Peach apricot flower centers. Blue tinged green leaves, stems, and bud stems. Shorter medium height to about 50".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

canna 'Pretoria' aka 'Bengal Tiger'

Spectacularly variegated canna 'Pretoria' aka 'Bengal Tiger' offers large chartreuse and cream striped leaves with a purplish red margin. Shades of orange (varying with the seasons) large blooms. Medium height to about 5'. Extra gorgeous vividly coloured canna.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

canna 'Ermine'

Lovely delicate white canna 'Ermine' originating from the line breedings of Rev. Curtis Wallace, Delaware, USA, North Star series cannas. Large white blooms and bluish green leaves. Heavy bloomer. Shorter medium height to about 48".

Thursday, March 25, 2010

canna 'Robert Kemp'

Species canna 'Robert Kemp' ( c. compacta) offers hot red spiked blooms above large green leaves with a white midrib. Heavy bloomer. Known as the 'hummingbird canna' as it attracts many easily. Medium height to about 6'. Excellent planted en-mass or alone.

canna 'paniculata'

Brightly coloured species canna 'panicitata' offers clusters of small bi-coloured red with yellow blooms above rich green leaves. Vigorous bloomer. Hummingbird attractive. Medium height to about 4'.


canna 'Angelique'



Aquatic type canna with long slender petals. Hot fuschia red bud stems and yellow buds. Blooms have hot rose-red centers bleeding into yellow/peach/ivory. Green stems and narrow lance shaped blue/green leaves. Ideal inground, for container growing, and as an aquatic. Height to about 4 1/2' Unique pretty canna. Similar in colour to 'Gravitas' but different.
Alice Harris, USA 2010

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

canna 'Harvest Moon'

Canna'Harvest Moon'is an excellently structured with rich golden orange blooms progressing to gold at the petal edges. Larger medium kelly green leaves. Very pretty. Medium height to about 50".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

canna 'Red Hat Lady'

Canna 'Red Hat Lady' offers wide open shaded red blooms with lighter margined petals that open from purplish red buds to bloom up the stem. Deep purple bud stems, stems, and leaves. Heavy bloomer and hummingbird attractive. Medium height to about 5 ft.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010




Wednesday, March 3, 2010

canna 'Tropical Cocktail'

Beautiful Ausutalian heirloom canna 'Tropical Cocktail' offers rich deep salmon pink blooms, dark leaves and stems, and dusky bud stems. Medium height to about 50". To us from Dale MacDonnell, Australia.

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canna 'Burgundy Blush'

Canna 'Burgundy Blush' is a taller height canna with large maroon over green leaves,
maroon stems, bud stems, mid rib, and leaf margins. Smaller red orange hummingbird attractive blooms. Cross of c. musafolia and c. purpurea.
Hybridizer: David Peterson, USA

canna 'Intrigue'

Lovely and graceful canna 'Intrigue' is a tall canna with excellent form and large slender lance-shaped bronze olive leaves. Smaller orange blooms. Hummingbird attractive. Very pretty as a specimen or in group plantings. Can also be grown as an aquatic.
Introduced by Herb Kelly, USA.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

canna 'purpurea' aka 'Russian Red'

Gorgeous canna 'purpurea' aka 'Russian Red' offers large bronze-purple leaves. Smaller red-orange hummingbird attractive blooms. One of my all time favourite cannas. Excellent structure. Excellent to use for screening, tall hedge, back of the border, and specimen plantings. Taller height to about 12'.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

canna 'Mon Amie'

Gorgeous delicate unusual coloured canna 'Mon Amie' boasts olden coral fuschia buds that open to rich fuschia pink petals randomly frosted and sprayed in white. Purple olive leaves with maroon margins and veins. Medium height to about 50"
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, USA 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

canna 'Sherry's Hello Yello'

Canna 'Sherry's Hello Yellow' boasts bright yellow blooms with slight reddish freckling at the center. Large bright apple green leaves with white margins. Heavy bloomer with multiple spikes open at once. Bright and cheery. Hummingbird attractive.
Medium height to about 5'.
Hybridizer: Sherry Rogers, USA

Thursday, January 7, 2010

canna 'Kismet'

Lovely canna 'Kismet' offer large deep rich raspberry blooms held above large deep maroon leaves. Deep maroon stems and bud stems. Medium height to about 50" Hummingbirds adore her. A favourite everywhere she grows.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

canna 'Black Knight'

Heirloom canna 'Black Knight' offers large black-red blooms and large leaves in charcoal over olive. Very lovely. Medium height to about 60".

canna 'Ben's Pink'

Striking canna 'Ben's Pink' boasts hot magenta blooms, dusky charcoal budstems and stems, and medium sized deep purple over olive leaves with magenta purple margins. Medium height to about 50".
Named in honour of Dr. Ben Lockhart, University of Minnesota.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

canna 'Opulance'

Canna 'Opulance' has dusky black bud stems with hot coral pink buds that open to large pink coral blooms. Dusky pewter green leaves with maroon margins. Very lovely canna.
Shorter height canna to about 40".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

Thursday, December 24, 2009

canna 'Miss Daisy'

Very lovely canna 'Miss Daisy' offers straight up creamy white blooms with a touch of salmon at the flower centers. Deep blue green leaves with white margins. Very pretty. Shorter height to about 40"
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010


Sunday, December 6, 2009

canna 'Pukka'

Striking canna 'Pukka' boasts hot pink blooms with pointed petals, deep dark stems and bud stems with a white farina, and purple edged deep green leaves. The meaning of 'pukka' is 'superior' or 'first rate'. Very pretty canna. A hummingbird favourite. Shorter medium height to about 50".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

canna 'Hot Tamale'

Hotly coloured canna 'Hot Tamale' boasts medium rich hot tamale red blooms with a touch of gold at the labellum. Medium sized blue-green leaves with white margins. Unusual complementary colour combination. Shorter medium height to about 50".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

canna 'Harvest Rose'

Very lovely canna 'Harvest Rose' offers scalloped picotee petaled rich rose over apricot blooms to apricot rose centers. Bloom colours change with the seasons and climate. Deep dark stems and leaves. Deep dusky bud stems with a white farina. Unusually coloured and very pretty. Medium height to about 50".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010


canna 'Natalie'

Lovely canna 'Natalie' offers scalloped edge rounded petaled creamy white blooms with golden centers bearing a blush of pale rose speckles. Medium green leaves. Shorter medium height to about 50". Very pretty. Hummingbird attractive (Hummingbird in photo came in to dine while photographing :)
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010