I have the giant white canna in a pot. I bring it into the house before frost. Mine blooms in the house. Perhaps it needs a longer growing season to flower.

Aha! DD was probably threatening the plants telling them they'd better do well with this attention or she'd spade them! Because then you'd be out there and you can't just yet do that much physical:) I go after the weeds after the sprinklers finish, they they've soften up the ground for me. Getting my mulch today, hoping it'll help with the weed problem myself. I've got blooms starting on my butterfly bushes too, now I know the taller ones are the purples! The buds put them just barely at 6' tall today. I ended up with 3 dwarf calla lilies and a dark purple geranium at Home Depot yesterday. Ours is not a very good garden dept. It was small and they had a new shipment in of beddding plants and I couldn't get near them easily as they were unpacking. Now I know why I stick to Lowes:) I'll look there for some Salvias on Mon. Glad to hear you're moving around easier Pat, and it's nice having someone fix meals for you and be around. But, if you're fussing about liking it, then you must be feeling better:)

I love those spotted leaf callas! I have a yellowish-orange flowering one "Flame", but it's pretty big - 3' easily. Eliza Ann - the big spotted leaf callas are usually Zantedeschia elliottiana hybrids. They don't all have spotted leaves however (although most do), so if possible either buy one with a photo, leaves already formed, or know the name. "Golden Calla" and "Flame" are the two easiest ones to find. I so wish we could grow the big bamboos. There's an old grove of oldhamii near my parent's place in Florida that's easily 40-50 feet tall. It makes this great clacking sound in the wind! BP

These should do very well for you: Abutilon megapotamica TRAILING ABUTILON Alstroemeria dwarves DWARF PERUVIAN LILY Antirrhinum trailing hybrids TRAILING SNAPDRAGONS Antirrhinum SNAPDRAGON Asparagus ASPARAGUS "FERNS" Billbergia nutans QUEENÂS TEARS Campanula isophylla ITALIAN BELLFLOWER Carex SEDGES (many) Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum' SPIDER PLANT Clivia CLIVIA Cymbalaria muralis KENILWORTH IVY Davallia fejeensis plumosa RABBIT'S FOOT FERN Dianella FLAX LILY Glechoma hederacea variegata GROUND IVY Hedera helix ENGLISH IVY Laurentia axillaris BLUE STARS Liriope LILY TURF Lysimachia nummularia CREEPING JENNY Lysimachia nummularia aurea GOLDEN CREEPING JENNY Mimulus x hybridus MONKEY FLOWER Ophiopogon japonicus MONDO GRASS Pericallis (Senecio) x hybrida CINERARIA Persicaria (Polygonum) capitata PINK KNOTWEED Persicaria ÂLangthorneÂs VarietyÂ, ÂPainterÂs PaletteÂ, ÂRed Dragon PAINTED KNOTWEED Phlebodium aureum HAREÂS FOOT FERN Platycerium bifurcatum STAGHORN FERN Primula PRIMROSE Saxifraga sarmentosa STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE Setcreasea purpurea PURPLE HEART Sutera cordifolia and hybrids BACOPA Vinca major ÂVariegata VINCA VINE Zantedeschia aethiopica dwarfs CALLA-LILIES Joe