Carolina Gardening: Hardiness success stories, 1 by tigerlily123

tigerlily123 wrote:
Hey Tropicana-another zone denial lady here! lol I don't know when was the last time I thought I was in zone 7-not when I am buying plants, I'll tell you that!!

I would leave them all in the ground and mulch heavy-esp the ginger.

The velutina is going to throw up massive amts of stalks for you next summer-so don't worry about any of those babies making it.
I have the Sangria and it did fine coming back in the spring, and it was a first year planting like yours-but I would mulch it heavy. Mine is 3 times the size right now from a yr ago. All of my crinums have come back, and I have over 10 or more types, so I think they are pretty reliable.
I would not try to divide your Basjoo now, because to divide it, you have to dig the whole thing up (to do a good job-not cut into one of the corms). Bananas do tend to grow close together-do you not like the look or something?

Just went and took some pictures for you-
here is a clump of my basjoo with the stalks close together-I am not going to do a thing to them