On 20 Mar 2005 19:25:08 -0800, wrote:

I live in zone 7b and I don't dig my canna's. They do fine for me, in
fact, they have all started to sprout

Same here, in 7b South Carolina. I haven't planted cannas myself before last year, but everywhere
areound here there are people with beds of cannas that are NEVER taken up.