Hi, I just bought one AGAIN after having to leave all the others behind in moving. I am happy to take a cutting off of it for you. I have never had much luck propagating from woody cuttings, but perhaps you can do with a new cutting and get it going yourself? I would love the fern leaf peony. Or any other perennial that I don't already have. :O)

Sending you an email.

Hi, The research that I've done this summer says that we have to propagate by cuttings as the seeds will go back to a normal non-contorted bush. The contorted bush is a mutation and will not produce another contorted bush through seeds. The nursery here has a bunch of own root plants selling for$100. They told me they took cuttings in July '04 from a very old plant. The new plants are now about 3' tall. They must have used fluorescent lighting to get flushes before the winter season to gwet that size plant.

I found one :^) I searched on craigslist, on a whim, and was happy to discover someone had a few small ones for sale. Just picked one up tonight for $10 - it's in a 1 gallon pot and is about 18" tall (from top of soil to top of plant). Here's a pic: If anyone else is interested in getting one, I can send you his phone number and/or email address (I asked him if he'd mind if I passed his info along to this group, and he said that would be great). I also have some more pics he sent me I can send you as well. But here's is a link to his craigslist ad: http://denver.craigslist.org/grd/2929658447.html You can email him through the ad as well. He said he bought about 50 of them a couple of years ago, when they were only cuttings about 3" high. He potted them up and has been caring for them since. He has about 8 of them left. They looked in good shape! I'm going to put this in a pot and see how it does on my front porch. It may get too much afternoon sun there, though, and this gentleman said they seem to prefer shade late in the day. So we'll see. I hope it does well there as I thought it would make an interesting sculptural specimen plant there. I saw some great ones in google images that were kept small - try a image search for 'harry lauder walking stick bonsai' and you'll see! It'll be fun to see how my little HLWS does :^D