Although fancy edges aren't my "thing", I like to display a little bit of everything in my garden for visitors to see as an example of what other people are working on. I love dormant plants so I jumped at the chance to grow Phil's spectacular HAROLD STEEN in my zone 7 garden. I get winter here with snow and ground that freezes so I knew it would do well. Phil sent a wonderful plant with a massive roots system but with that being said, my climate is much different than zone 4, so the plant struggled the first year after planting to adapt to my hot summers. The second year, it kicked in and looked exactly as advertised. It is a fantastic pod setter even when it is hot. But when moving plants from a really cold climate like zone 4 to a zone 8 climate, I would expect dormants to not do well. I'm always puzzled by why folks in cold climates keep trying to grow zone 8 plants when wonderful things are available from Phil Korth that are dormants!!! Phil does grow some evergreens and semi-evergreens, but even those will most likely take awhile to adapt as most plants do that go between many zones. They have to grow completely different root systems.
