Dear Judy, My kind of topic. All my stinkers are done blooming. I may have seeds on Dracunculus vulgaris since I had 8 in flower over a week's time - enough for cross pollination. I think this is the hardiest of the all and tolerates a variety of situations - sun, shade, dry,moist. Typhonium venosum should be hardy here. I know others who grow it, but mine do not return. The vaguely related Typhonium giganteum is also reliable, but does not bloom often and still is not up. It rises very late in the season. You didn't mention Helicodicerous musciverous which has been hardy in a west facing slope and bloomed this year admittedly to my surprise. Amorphophallus of various sorts are hardy in in just the right places: A. konjac, the most hardy, marginal A. henryi (just coming up now) and at least one other although the name escapes me and I lost it a couple winters ago. And then there's Pinellia, Arisaema, Arisarum and others to try Best Jim -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +