Canna lilies can provide a dramatic splash of tropical beauty to your home garden. Here's how to care for them.

Expect Canna plants to grow to at least 4 feet tall, making them well-suited for the background of a garden or in the center as a focal point. Cannas grow well in pots, making an impressive ...

A new canna lily, called South Pacific Orange F1, is one of the 2018 All America Selection winners. Pixabay photo When deciding what to plant in my container gardens, I have not typically ...

While we may give them short shrift, in northern climes they are much appreciated for their tropical attributes. In South Texas, canna lilies are perennials, but up North, they are annuals.

Because they are tropical plants, cannas require warm soil, so we need to wait until the soil is warm enough to plant in the spring, generally around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. We are approaching ...

The flowers of the canna appear in summer on short spikes of four to six florets, each with 3- to 4-inch-long petals. They are largely scentless and come in a wide range of colors -- red, orange ...

Canna lilies add a tropical flair with bananalike, brightly colored leaves and showy flowers that match the flair of tropical ginger. Although native to tropical Central and South America, the ...

GARDENING GERRY DALY THE canna lily is becoming increasingly popular in gardens as a result of the fashion for tropical planting. In this style of planting, tender exotic plants are used outdoors ...

Canna (not to be confused with calla lily which is not related), grows from thick rhizomes, or storage roots, to reach over two metres tall in some cases, though is mostly about 50cm less.

Canna lilies add a touch of the tropics Updated October 28 2016 - 10:30pm, first published 5:00pm ...

generalis Hybrids Canna Lily One of the latest whims in landscaping is using tropical plants. I guess this trend is to give us who can't afford the plane ticket to the Bahamas, a taste of the ...

Q uestion: We had several huge canna lilies in our garden this year. They have now been killed by these recent cold temperatures. Is it too late to dig them up? If we do, how do we keep them ...