Hello, I would like one of the bulbs but dont have a lot too offer and even dont know the names of what i do have . I have a dark purplish canna, daylillies, yellow and orange, and a verigated hosta, cream and green. If interested please emaile me. thank you

Please See My Original Post In The Plant Trade Section~ http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/explant/msg0203571217271.html Thanx, E G G

I have a clump thats about 2'x 2' and would be willing to let you have some. They will be finished blooming around July or August and I will have 10 or 12 seed heads. I can dig a few tubers after they go dormant. I'm not sure if they will help with the dear problem, but they are a nice plant to have. You might not want to plant a lot because if you ever decide to move it or get rid of it, you might have a hard time removing all of the small tubers. If you are interested, e-mail me and let me know and I can contact you when they are ready. Jim

I thought I'd update the situation here on the Central West NSW frontline. Quite by chance, I adopted from last winter the strategy suggested by Katherine D immediately above. As I enter the second winter of the campaign I am finding a lot less plants coming up and because the soil in the flower beds has been turned over lifting the plants complete with corms is straightforward. One thing I have found is that the plant is extremely resilient. As I dug up arums last winter I put them into used plastic animal feed bags which I left out in the sun. Over the summer we had +40 deg C days and low humidity and in my innocence, I thought that would do the plants and corms in. Come the late autumn I started burning the contents of the bags in the fire pit and lo and behold there were corms sprouting happily away. And even after exposure to the flame, they had to be in the very hot part of the pit to ensure their destruction. One final note: our local Agricultural show here in Canowindra is held in spring. In fact it is more than just sheep and the big money local crop, lucerne, there's a horticultural section too. Taking in the prize-winning exhibits last year my eye fell upon one "highly commended" potted specimen, a ''beautiful'' arum. I wrote to the PA&H Show Society to complain that they were encouraging the cultivation of a noxious weed and a threat to pastures. They acknowledged my letter. It remains to be seen if they can the class for arums this year.