In Zone 6, they rarely ever come back. My brother lives in Zone 6, and he uses the "bucket method" on his. He takes a 3-gallon bucket, drills several 1" holes in the SIDES ONLY---NOT the bottom!---and plants his brugs in the buckets. Then he plants bucket and all in the ground after the last frost in spring. Come fall, he trims back the top, cuts around the outside of the bucket, and lifts bucket and all for storage in his basement. (MUST stay above 40 degrees!) Alternatively, you can take new cuttings each fall and overwinter them indoors in a glass of water. You can even cut the entire trunk and overwinter in a suitably large container!

Hi Kaye, and of course you are welcome and anyone else that you would like to invite. I'm so glad my daylily friends are passing the word! Deb and I have been trying to get this plant swap going now for 2 years and we've been doing pretty good. You'll have a ton of fun. I'm like you, in that I like tropicals, too. Of course, my greenhouse is filled to bursting in the winter. LOL. OK, I would love to get any of the following: Any rain lilies, Hedychiums - Yellow Butterfly, Disney, Pink V, Luna Moth, Crinums - Ellen Bosanquet, Powellii pink, scabrum, and more, Iris - Japanese - any, Curcuma Elata and the Zedoaria 'Bicolor Wonder'. Am I being much of a pig yet? Of course, I would LOVE the Dianella tasmanica 'Variegata'! I have some new Curcuma's that I got this year - Pink Supreme - and the others I'll have to go get the names of them. I have one Burgundy Pineapple lily, tons of canna, (Richard Wallace), Rice Paper Plant - (if you get some of this, you may be cussing me out in a few years), Maranta a. variegata, PANCRATIUM Hymenocallis zeylanicum, Air Potato, if I can find that little potato that I dropped off the vine this afternoon, Abutilon 'Marion Stewart", I also have 2 pieces of a Hydrangea that my kids gave me years ago that is as tall as I am now. Found a couple of branches that were laying down on the ground so I cut them off the mother plant and they're out in the greenhouse now in a bucket of water. I have tons of Datura seed, the normal white and also the purple swirl. I have Pink Frost brugmansia and a yellow/orange one, not sure of the name. I also have a collection of Philodendrons that I might be able to get some cuttings from. P. Caulkin's gold I can definitely get a cutting, and a couple more that are in the greenhouse. Oh, and I can get a bunch of cuttings of both of my Glory Bowers (Clerodendrum thomsoniae), one is white with red bleeding, and the other is pink with red bleeding. I also have Daylilies (can you believe it?). Ok, that's enough for now. Let me know if you're interested in trading any or all of the above. hahahahahahha Thanks, Vickie

Hi Melissa! Hope your 'lady' has continued to impress. Just ran across this and wanted to stress that I do not SELL on GardenWeb (or anywhere else for that matter) as it is against the rules. If greenmaryd and flashphoto will contact me via e-mail through GW I will be glad to work out a trade or send cuttings for postage if they are still available. I'll be taking cuttings before the first frost, still several weeks from now. As for Melissa, I will have limited cuttings of 'Pink Perfektion' and 'Dolens Rosenresli' if you are interested. If it turns out I have more I will make them available to others as well. Happy Fall y'all!!

Here's what I've got in the poppy realm. It's so hot here, I'd have to sow these in fall and the perennial ones probably wouldn't make it. Your reblooming iris collection is incredible, but iris for poppy doesn't sound fair- iris is way cooler. I'm not picky so long as it can survive zone 8.