Yep,I've got 3 varieties of bamboo.One I pulled(by hand-no tools) by the side of the road.It has produced a grove already 10 feet wide-by nearly 20 feet long.Another one I yanked up a couple pieces at the edge of the parking lot at the local hospital.One piece survived-and is growing well.Another the owner let me use his shovel to dig it up.When you dig-or even yank up,It seems to do well as long as you get even a little piece of the rootstock.It's no impossible task,you dont have to have a huge 20 pound rootball to get the plant to survive.

Hi Jim I live near Banks and it would be very convenient for me to pick up a couple gingers..could you tell me about them. Are they hardy? I am working on a tropical area with a banana tree as the main focus and I think the ginger would fit in nicely. As for trades I have some ornamental perennial grass that is quite beautiful that I can dig up...would probably fill a 2 1/2 gallon pot. It is dormant right now. I also have some feverfew that is just starting to get it's new leaves. Dana

You can definitely grow kiwis in Portland. I live in NoPo and planted two kiwi plants about 15 years ago. They grew quite vigorously. However, I got no fruit. A friend was cutting back her male at the time it was flowering, and I took some cuttings and simply dragged the flowers over the flowers on my kiwis, and - voila! - that fall I had a bunch of kiwi fruit. So - the Hayward kiwis that I bought from Freddies were not one female and one male, but were both females. I bought another - very scrawny - male from Portland Nursery, and have had lots and lots of fruit. I have a 16 foot tall by 5 foot wide trellis/arbor that I built on the south side of my garage. The kiwi took that over with-in a couple of years. Now they have taken over the garage roof and the neighbor's trees. Good luck!

I'm going-it was fun last year and Duane had some very nice and unusual plants that I was happy to get. Yes, I "shovel pruned" my Epimedium sulphureum, but that doesn't make it any less desirable. I have potted up a number of other things so that they will be well adjusted by Apr.: Hostas, variegated and blue-green; Carex "Toffee Twist"; Daylilies "Fairy Tale Pink", & "Canadian Border Patrol"; Aster "September Charm"; Bulbous Oat Grass; Solomon's Seal; Clematis "Hagley Hybrid" and "Mme. Le Coultre (Marie Boisselot)" and probably more.