I have for trade rooted cuttings from the following: 2 types of wax plants different african violets spider plant babies purple heart wandering jew snake plant/ mother in laws tongue variety kalanchoe rubber plant christmas cactus umbrella plant bromelaid heart leaf philodendron pothos english ivy dumb cane arrowhead money tree I am willing do do just about anything for one of these. I got my hands on one before nad someone stole it off my front porch:( Please let me know!!

If you are interested in pond plants including dwarf let me know. Not really bonsai but a dwarf umbrella or papyrus plant make excellent accent or tub garden plants.

lpenguin It's simply a matter of doing what's best to succeed. One doesn't take a Nile crocodile and release it in the Arctic ocean or then take a Polar bear and release it on the Nile. In neither instance will either survive or any given time. The reptile will freeze in short order and the Polar bear is unsuited and unable to cope with it's new surroundings. Zoos have to mimic native conditions to be successful with any species. You have to do that with plants also. Certain plants come from environments that can be adequately mimicked indoors. Tropicals fit into that category. Hardy trees that live in temperate climates experience many types of changing weather conditions and thrive in them. Spring, summer, fall, winter, and all the good and nasty weather involved with those seasons. It needs all of those things to thrive and be healthy. Taking a maple and moving it indoors deprives it of all those nesassary weather changes it needs to survive, the big one being a dormant rest called winter. Indoors usually means stagnant air, no humidity, no wind to help build strength in the plant, and no winter rest. Try going 24/7 for a year and see how you feel:-) I grow my plants on benches to lessen herbivore pruning. randy

I have ipomoea platensis seed. I forms a big caudex that can be raised for bonsai effect, and also is covered with large purple flowers. mine spends the summer in a 24" pot on the front porch with a 6 ft trellis that it fills, and the winter(when it is semi dormant) as a bonsai. Mike