Tropicals & Tender Perennials: tropicals for zone 7b?, 1 by mysticmoonshine

mysticmoonshine wrote:
Okay all of you wonderful people out there.....I am quickly falling in love with tropicals. I am a newbie and am wondering what tropicals can survuve my zone 7b winters. I have 4 or 5 varieties of cannas and a banana tree that a neighbor gave to me and I have not had to dig and store them for winter,,,just cut them down and mulch very heavily till spring.

can you all tell me what would survive.....i want would love to have a lush tropical look in my back yard.. how about elephant ears?
I went to Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbia over the weekend and they had one called Storm Warning grwing ...beautiful!!! I have been unable to find any good info on them.

Any ideas?