After our long colorless winter, many gardeners are dreaming of creating a lush, colorful garden in their backyard. With their large banana-like leaves and tall spikes of brilliant flowers, Canna ...

Cannas or canna lilies are big, bold plants that make a tremendous impact in the garden, both with their large leaves first and then their fiery-coloured flowers. They have become much more widely ...

Canna is a tender tropical plant and can only be planted out in the garden after the danger of frost has passed, about mid-May in the south and near the coast, about two weeks later in the cooler ...

Q Last year, I planted a canna lily in a 14in cube pot, which grew to about 4ft with huge leaves and a few flowers. I cut it right down and overwintered it in the greenhouse. But this year it only ...

Garden centres are backing one compact canna lily as the easiest way to add instant drama this year. Planted now, it can ...

I typically start my canna lilies in pots in a small greenhouse in April, then in May, I put them in the ground. This year I was thinking about planting them in straight mushroom soil. Is that a good ...

You may think the tall strong canna stems are reminiscent of a ginger lily — and are often called canna lilies — but they actually do not belong to the lily family at all. Canna lilies can reach 8 to ...

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 ...

Tropical plants have been changing the palette and character of summer gardens in every climate lately. Lush, leafy canna lilies, rising above ranks of predictable petunias and marigolds, are leading ...

Canna lilies aren’t really lilies. And, quite frankly, they really don’t look very lily-like at all. But that is not necessarily a bad thing, because while our regular garden lilies are spectacular, ...