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 ...

Canna lilies are bold and beautiful landscape plants that are a staple growing in southern home gardens, popularized as easy to grow and maintain. I have a collection strategically placed around my ...

There are some wonderful, old-fashioned perennials that just keep on blooming in spite of a hot Texas summer. You may have heard of cannas, but what about spider lilies and crinums? They all grow ...

Perhaps you remember seeing cannas in a median strip along a road. Many cities use them to decorate their streets during the summer. The home gardener can use them as well. The canna, the ...

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, also known as canna lilies, are among our most versatile plants and they may be the easiest of all to add a tropical look to a landscape. This is a plant that can be planted from April to ...

Cannas have made a comeback. Big time. Once a favorite of formal and regimented Victorian plots, these structural tropical plants are turning up the heat in all sorts of gardens. Garden centers, box ...

Colorful and exotic, cannas bring a tropical note into a garden, either as a back-up for other plants or as a solo act. I'm anticipating the bright yellow blooms of giant "King Humbert" cannas in my ...

Question: 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 through ...

After the first killing frost, a gardener is left with two choices. The first — and this involves some effort — is to dig up dahlia, caladium and tuberous begonia tubers, canna rhizomes and gladiola ...

Cannas (Canna x generalis) is one of the easiest tropical plants to grow in central Ohio gardens. The plants are mostly grown from rhizomes — underground stems with offshoots. The leaves are ...