Strawberries are a perfect plant for containers, especially hanging containers. They look gorgeous with the fruit drooping ...

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 ...

OK, I’ll admit it — I’ve always had a love affair with cannas. When I was growing up in Southern California, cannas were a landscaping staple. The large varieties were used in formal plantings at ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, more commonly known as simply cannas, provide a lot of bang for the buck in any flower garden. Some varieties are grown for their flowers, others for their showy foliage. The main ...

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 ...

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 ...

These late August days are perfect for the tall tropical plant canna lily. Native to zones seven through 10 in the southern United States down to Argentina, these stately perennials are known for ...