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Thanks for the advice, guys. Since posting my question, I've had a couple of varieties helpfully eliminate themselves from the running, and I've got a couple of others that I've added, which seem to be held in high regard (Misi Luki, Goldfinger and FHIA-18).

Here is the strange thing: I bought the Lakatan and PK from Jon last fall and put them in the ground right away. The Lakatan was about 12" tall (the biggest he had, at the time) and the PK was about 36" tall. The Lakatan did fine, without growing, until the last month or so, when it began rapid growth, maybe doubling in size, up to this point. The PK, however, was hit hard with the onset of what proved to be a fairly mild winter, and before I knew it, rotted to the ground. I later poked around and found that 1/2 to 2/3 of the corm remained intact, and it has just now begun to sprout a new pseudostem. Is PK usually regarded as less hardy that Lakatan?