Hello everyone, I am in search of cold hardy clumping bamboo for zone 7. I am willing to pay reasonable shipping or trade. I have seeds and a few types of plants for unrooted cutting. Please check out my exchange page. Additionally, I have Christmas cactus that blooms white, salmon and pink. However, not sure what you will get as they are not marked. http://www.gardenweb.com/members/exch/smb1_sunshinegg

See my post "have various bamboo". Will have more in a couple of months - they are potted but not quite ready to ship. Live in N. California. Need a full list of plants you have to trade. Send to fred-carolyn12@sbcglobal.net. Rgds

I've gotten cannas to survive over the winter. I used to live in the Chicagoland area and by accident one year I left some cannas in the ground. They were rather close to the foundation of the house with a sheltered southern exposure. As I didnt realize there were rhizomes in the ground still, I didn't mulch them. Then to my suprise they popped up and bloomed the following summer! There has also been oxalis, callas, and gladiolas overwinter in that area(I've also had glads overwinter unprotectded in other areas of the garden as well). There was also a school that was a few blocks away from my place when I lived in the North side of Chicago that had cannas pop every year, unprotected on the south and east sides of the building. Ironically I couldnt get mine to overwinter a few blocks away! The cannas were identical to the ones that I grew in the south suburbs, a medium variety with small scarlet/orange-red flowers, with more flowers on the inflorescense that most cannas. I really dont know the name of the variety,but it is very common in the area. I believe it may be a very hardy variety.

Sorry, maybe you misunderstand, this is a public forum for group conversations on plants, etc. We do not send private EMails. Nor do we provide people w/ plants, sorry. We welcome questions & conversations. Security wise for yourself, it's a bad idea to post your EM address openly on a public forum. Maybe try & edit your post & remove that.