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.

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Enjoy the cannas!!

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Our Current Growing Collection

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Showing posts with label USA 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA 2010. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

canna 'Starry Night'

Canna 'Starry Night' offers soft vibrant pink star shaped blooms held above deep dark pointed lance shaped leaves. Height about 4 ft. Delicate and lovely.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2011

Sunday, September 5, 2010

canna 'Thai Sunray'

Canna 'Thai Sunray' is an heirloom canna from Thailand. Large bi-colour yellow and orange-red blooms are held high above rich green foliage. Leaves have a thin white margin and light mid rib. Taller height to around 6'. Very gorgeous canna.
To us from Margie Brown, USA.


Thursday, September 2, 2010

canna 'Allegheny Sunrise'

Canna 'Allegheny Sunrise' offers delicate hummingbird attractive rich golden blooms with apricot centers that bloom up the stem and are held above the foliage. Large bluish green leaves. Prolific bloomer. Taller height to about 6 ft.
Alice Harris, USA 2010

Friday, August 20, 2010

canna 'Pink Cloud'

Gorgeous canna 'Pink Cloud' offers lovely pink wide open blooms with rounded petals and golden centers. Deeper blue green leaves. Shorter medium height to about 50". Hummingbird attractive. Very pretty.
Hybridizer: Dave Karchesky, USA

Friday, July 30, 2010

canna 'Sugar and Spice'

Delicately coloured canna 'Sugar and Spice' offers large heavily spotted creamy yellow to cream white flower heads. Large green leaves. Extra heavy bloomer. Very nice.
Height to about 5'.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

canna 'Pink Floyd'

Canna 'Pimk Floyd' offers pure pink blooms with golden centers ans rich green leaves.
Shorter medium height to about 50". Blooms with multiple heads open at once.Hummingbird attractive and very pretty.
Dave Karchesky, USA 2010


Thursday, May 20, 2010

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


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, 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




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 '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

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 '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

Thursday, November 26, 2009

canna 'Sassy Sandy'

Canna 'Sassy Sandy' boasts gorgeous red and yellow bi-colour medium size blooms and clear green leaves. Shorter height to about 40". Named for Sandy Moore, aka "Canna Queen" of Niagra Parks Commission, Niagra Falls, Canada.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010


Saturday, November 21, 2009

canna 'Gigundo'

Very large structured canna 'Gigundo' boasts extra large green-maroon rounded paddled fan shaped leaves. Maroon mid-ribs, leaf margins, bud stems, and stems. Smaller vermilion-coral blooms are hummingbird attractive. This big canna cannot be missed!
Tall height 10-12'
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010

Thursday, November 5, 2009

canna 'Ripples'

Large structured canna 'Ripples' boasts banded and striped maroon and green leaves rippling along the leaf edge. Bright red smaller type flowers are hummingbird attractive. Excellent and very showy canna. Height to at least 8 ft.
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, Karchesky Canna, 2010