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, 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


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, July 27, 2010

canna 'Rosever'

Lovely heirloom canna 'Rosever' offers large deep coral pink blooms and dark foliage with spooned leaves. Heavy bloomer. Shorter height to about 40"

Saturday, July 24, 2010

canna 'Polly Gay'

Canna 'Polly Gay' is a gorgeous heirloom from the offerings of Ben Hager. Velvety deep red blooms with gold spotting and margins. Blue green leaves. Unbelievably beautiful.
Many thanks to Jim Rains for us to have Polly growing here again.
Constant bloomer. Medium height to about 50".

Friday, July 23, 2010

canna 'Pacific Beauty' aka 'Semaphore'

Heirloom canna 'Pacific Beauty' offers unusually coloured hot saffron yellow blooms with hot orange centers extending into the petals. Rich olive bronze elongated leaves with maroon edges, midribs, and veining. Height to around 60". Hummingbird attractive. Also known as 'Semaphore'. Gorgeous bright coloured heirloom canna.

Friday, July 16, 2010

canna 'Candles'

Canna 'Candles' is a gorgeous canna with blooms opening deep peach apricot to age peach. Deep rose centers. Dark foliage. This canna blooms with multiple heads at once, and as one bloom head finishes, the stalk breaks to a new budstem and flower head. In the half light of sunrise and sunset, 'Candles' blooms have the appearance of glowing candles.
Shorter medium height to about 50"
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2010-11

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

canna 'Femme Fatale'

Canna 'Femme Fatale' is a gorgeous bright and showy canna with rich gold spotted and edged hot fuschia pink blooms. Bright green leaves. Shorter medium height to about 50"
Hybridizer: Alice Harris, USA 2011

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

canna 'Australia'

Beautiful and stately canna 'Australia' boasts elongated heads of bright soft tomato red iris shaped blooms. Glossy leathery deep maroon leaves are among the darkest of all canna foliage. Medium height to about 60"


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



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


Sunday, June 6, 2010

canna 'patens'

Canna 'patens' is an exquisite bright bi-colour red and yellow small flowering species canna with spotting at the labellum. Hummingbird attractive blooms. Bright apple green leaves. Height to about 4 ft.

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'.