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When I was a little girl, I’d trek down the alley to my great grandmother’s house a block away. Her side yard was a gardener’s bounty, with a circle of tall red cannas at the center. Whenever I see ...

Cannas are tropical and subtropical perennials with showy flowers and large green, bronze, burgundy and multicolored banana-shaped leaves. Flowers are large with recurved, multilayered petals of ...

I consider myself an equal-opportunity gardener in the sense that I like to grow a variety of different plants in my garden and home landscape. Like most gardeners, I appreciate the ecological value ...

Fall seems exceptional this year and I enthusiastically welcome my daily strolls through my gardens. I was surprised to find this lingering orchid canna blooming in the early evening light. It made me ...

Gardening in North Texas means we deal with the challenges of hot weather and limited water resources. But we still love to have a bit of the tropics in our gardens, and that's where canna lily plants ...

For making a statement in the garden, nothing beats big tropical foliage plants. While hardy only in areas that don’t get below 45 degrees, you can bring them indoors for the winter. Or you can treat ...

Tropical gardens are generally low maintenance gardens, and cannas fit right in. They love the heat, and need it to flower well, like regular watering but can cope with drought, and grow easily and ...

When my horticulturally illiterate husband asked me over breakfast what I was writing about this week, and I replied “Cannas”, he said, “Oh, those really hot looking things?” Nobody can help but ...