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!

Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts

Friday, March 9, 2018

canna 'Sugarplum'

Beautiful blooms open a glowing plum crimson with multiple full heads blooming at once. Large dark solid plum maroon leaves with luminous margins. Very brightly coloured lovely canna. Height to about 5'. Alice Harris, USA 2012

Monday, February 28, 2011

canna 'Butterfly Brocade'

Gorgeous canna 'Butterfly Brocade' boasts red on red spotted petals trimmed with wide gold irregular margins. Butterfly and hummingbird attractive. Medium height 5-6 ft.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2011


Thursday, October 28, 2010

canna 'Lunar Light'

Canna 'Lunar Light' has large blooms in an unusual striking shade of yellow. Larger size apple green leaves. Very bright and very pretty. Medium height to about 5'
Hybridizer: Marcelle Shepphard, USA

Sunday, October 3, 2010

canna 'Hotsie Totsie'

Canna 'Hotsie Totsie' offers large hot pink gold embellished blooms and paddle shaped green leaves,. Shorter height to about 40". Excellent constant bloomer. Absolutely gorgeous.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2009


Friday, September 3, 2010

canna 'Zulu Warrior'

Canna 'Zulu Warrior' boasts open hummingbird attractive hot deep orange blooms held above chocolate olive foliage offering an excellent colour combination. Constant bloomer. Height at about 5'.
Hybridizer: Marcelle Sheppard, USA

Saturday, August 21, 2010

canna 'Fantastic Red'

Canna 'Fantastic Red' offers a different "red" in cannas. Intense deep red blooms held above maroon black stems. Medium green leaves with pronounced red margins. Shorter medium height to about 50". Very pretty and different.
Hybridizer: Marcelle Sheppard, USA

Saturday, July 31, 2010

canna 'Risky Business'

Canna 'Risky Business' offers heavily splotched golden petals that merge to solid red at the flower center. Bloom has the depth of velvet. Very pretty. Lance shaped green leaves with white margins. Medium height to about 5. Available again later 2011.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010


Thursday, June 17, 2010

canna 'Belinda'

Canna 'Belinda' offers gorgeous large flowering multi-toned blooms continually changing in varying shades of pinks and apricots. Large deep chocolate olive leaves. Medium height to about 5'. Very beautiful.
Rebecca Rednoir, USA



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".

Sunday, December 6, 2009

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

Sunday, November 8, 2009

canna 'Thai Goddess'


Gorgeous heirloom canna 'Thai Goddess' originated from Thailand. Large bi-coloured rust blooms with gold. Large darker green leaves. Large structure. Unusual colour. Excellent canna. Taller height to about 72".
Margie Brown, USA.


Thursday, November 5, 2009

canna 'Pink Ribbons'

Lovely canna 'Pink Ribbons' offers smaller open rich pink blooms held high above large rich blue green leaves. Dusky gray-pink bud stems. Hummingbird attractive. Height to about 6'.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010


canna 'Mary Cassatt'

Canna 'Mary Cassatt' offers very lovely large luminous hot coral orange blooms, black stems and bud stems with a white farina, and medium deep olive leaves. Short height to about 30" she is among the shortest of the cannas we grow.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, USA 2010

Canna 'Mary Cassett' is a 2006 selection by the Mary Cassatt Society, Pittsburgh, PA to honour Allegheny City (later part of Pittsburgh) impressionistic painter, Mary Cassatt who lived most of her adult life in France. He work often concentrated on the social and private lives of women with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and their children.





Thursday, October 29, 2009

canna 'Aurorea'

Gorgeous canna 'Aurorea' offers larger hot deep pink coral blooms whose hues change with the seasons giving varying color shades. Deep maroon olive leaves to solid maroon on the reverse. Lovely interesting ever-changing canna that is also a hummingbird magnet. Very lovely. Medium height to about 50".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, USA 2009

canna 'Lofty Lanterns'

Canna 'Lofty Lanterns' bears loose trusses of soft yellow blooms that fade near white held high above large apple green leaves. Heavy bloomer. Delicate and very pretty. Medium height to about 5'.
Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, USA 2010

Sunday, October 18, 2009

canna 'Goldie Locks'

Canna 'Goldie Locks' offers rich golden blooms with vermilion centers and the vermilion intermittently bleeding into the gold. Reverse petals are pure gold. Very unusual. Cupped blue green leaves. Shorter medium height canna to about 50".
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, 2010.

Friday, October 2, 2009

canna 'Divine Pink'

Lovely canna 'Divine Pink' offers large deep pink blooms and rich deep green leaves with thin red margins.Continual bloomer that makes a great statement alone or en mass.
Medium height to about 6'.
Hybridizer: Sherry Rogers, USA 2010

canna 'Lipstick'

Canna 'Lipstick' boasts large unusual golden blooms with lipstick red centers that "bleed" onto the petals. Blueish green leaves. Medium height to about 5'.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2008

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Picotee Pink

Gorgeous shaded pink canna 'Picotee Pink' has dark leaves and scalloped edged petals
Medium height to about 5'. Innocent and lovely.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, USA



Wednesday, August 26, 2009

canna 'Gravitas'

Canna 'Gravitas' has wide open slender petaled ivory blooms with rich rose throats. Slender deep green leaves. Hummingbird attractive. Excellent constant bloomer.
Unusual shaped blooms. Very pretty. Height to about 40"

'Gravitas' is Latin meaning 'stands out front'.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, USA