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I have heard really good things about Brian too. I purchased two Colocasia "Big Dipper" from him and they are doing incredibly great. And mine are in pots on a screened in porch. They are growing like crazy. I have also ordered from Natural Selections Exotics (http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/naturalselectionsexotics/StoreFront) and received very healthy plants. Good luck building up your collection again! Both Brian and Natural Selections sell on Ebay also.

I had my 'Frydek' in a very large pot (24 inch) with a Zebrina banana tree and a Canary Island trumpet vine. I pulled all the 'Frydek' plants out and put into a 10 inch clay pot last fall and stuck the pot in the garage, cut back on watering and this year they are doing great. What I really wanted to say is they must be hardier than I thought. Due to the very large pot and hearing that banana trees were somewhat hardy - I put the pot with the banana and trumpet vine in my barn and tried to keep it above freezing with a mal-functioning kerosene heater. Needless to say the heater fizzled out several sub-freezing nights after I thought it was properly lit. I lost the banana, but the trumpet vine is blooming like crazy, and surprise, surprise I had two small 'Frydek' plants come up from missed bulbils. I also have dug many 'Illustris' from the ground this year from broken off tubers, some 'Black Magic', and a couple of violet stem ones missed from last year's digging. They grow so rapidly from such small rhizomes that it is hard to believe they survived the winter and were so small to begin with. My biggest complaint is I bought a alocasia that was labled 'Portadora' 2 years ago for $10. I put it in my greenhouse but it gave up the ghost. It was in the same pot as a begonia 'Richmondensis' that is now a fine looking specimen. So last year I bought the same plant for $18 at the same place - but I pulled up the 2 large tubers last fall and stored dry. They came out fine so I planted directly in the ground along with the above colocasias I mentioned. All came up except the 'Portadora' and it was the one most cared for and had the largest tubers. Luckily the extra large pot I planted it in along with other aroids such as C. 'Hilo Beauty', A. 'Bako Park', anthurium 'Crystallinum', and a Hawaiian snow bush (breynia) - when I lifted the 2 large tubers last fall it must've broken off some smaller ones. I moved this pot in my garage last fall and since I moved it out all my aroids have come out (although the anthurium did not go dormant like the alocasias and colocasias). What I don't understand is the largest 'Portadora' plant is back around with the breynia, while all the others are in the front of the pot where the mother plants were. I'll accept it as a good luck sign and not question it.

Thank you Shawn..o thats much easier, lol. I did see them in the park's catalgue, but I just get tortured by those catalogues. I looked at the one I got last week with one eye, like I was watching a horror movie, lol. I can't afford it right now. If they have a free shipping promo goin then thats dif, lol. It's the shipping that kills me. I'd rather try and get it around here than have to pay shipping. I am hoping HD or Lowe's will get them, I'm the same way, need to see it. Nothin worse than ordering a plant and getting a crappy lil half dead thing delivered to your door. Daniella