Jim's account of hardy zantedeschias in western Virginia reminds me that two years ago, a friend sent me tubers of a large-growing red-orange zantedeschia with nicely spotted leaves. I grew them for a season in a container, decided they were too much trouble (needed water constantly, blew over in the wind), and tossed them in the last compost heap down the hill (the heap of no return). This year he wrote and asked how the callas had done in my garden. Whoops. I hadn't realized he considered them hardy. But later in the season, when I'd forgotten all about them, I chanced to look in the lower compost area, and there they were: a huge clump, in full and glorious bloom. So now they've been moved back into the garden, in several places, and one potful set aside in a greenhouse, just in case. Ellen Ellen Hornig Seneca Hill Perennials 3712 County Route 57 Oswego NY 13126 USA http://www.senecahillperennials.com/