So I was in Staples buying file folders for my filing cabinet when I got this urge...more of a calling I'd say to go to my favorite garden centre. So off I go and I wander in and what do my disbelieving eyes see but a Domino Peace Lily in a 4in pot. I had to use every ounce of my strength to stop myself from grabbing them all and running around the store in a psychotic squealing frenzy. They've always had these in 8in pots but I just HATE buying big plants. Not nearly as much joy in growing them as there is if you buy a small one and get it to an 8in pot yourself. So though they always had those I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for about 2 years to find it in a 4in pot. Alas my patience has been rewarded and I also managed to only buy one, which wasn't nearly as hard as refraining from squealing as I dislike duplicates. Finding this plant also negates the upset that I should feel at having bought file folders that don't fit in my cabinet.

Usually what you see offered here is an unbranched stick in an at least five gallon pot, sometimes larger. Grafted stuff like this is often sold that way, in large or largish sizes that command a high enough price to make it worthwhile for the grower to bother with the grafting procedure (the retailer is often more than doubling their purchase price, too). Could be that once it is up to a 'finished' plant and container size and weight it is seen as too clumsy to ship by some vendors, maybe with concern about the scion being snapped off in handling on the minds of a few as well. While I enjoy the handsome foliage of these I don't enjoy the handsome pricing. Am also concerned that I have never seen a single large, old specimen despite it having been sold on this continent for some time. Last time I was in the garden of a friend who has (had?) an impressive one maybe 8 ft. tall or more it had started to decline noticeably, with the rootstock also having been suckering with a seeming increase in enthusiasm for at least a few years. Many commonly grafted and planted items actually do not work out over the long term, this may be one of those. More familiar examples are hybrid roses, Japanese cherries, and various other stone fruits - there being numerous multi-stemmed, low-forking specimens of 'Dr. Huey' (a rose used as rootstock by American growers), sweet cherry (Prunus avium) and cherry plum (P. cerasifera) scattered about local gardens and landscapes, likely quite often serving as indicators of failed grafts.

Do let us know what you end up with. I'm in zone 5, eastern Iowa. I don't know how you found my site, maybe I put it in my profile? I just might try to order one of those enkianthus myself although acid loving plants are iffy where I am. The lady across the street lost her beautiful holly tree, I have one azalea I just planted so don't know how it will do, my mail order bare root rhododendrons came sickly looking and got trampelled during concrete work. Years ago I had great success with three PJM rhododendrons but I finally lost them, think my kids weren't too careful around them and I neglected to give them regular doses of miracid after the first years. Oh well. Well, I cobbled that peacock site together from a photo somebody posted on a clipart group (I'm not supposed to mention other forums, not really germane to our discussion anyway) and some backgrounds somebody else posted. I lifted the peacock out of the background of the photo and put it on the new background and built the page from there. It's really kind of stale at this point, but I'm in no mood to revamp it. I wish I could find a white peacock to photograph myself now that I have a decent camera, but you have to go to Florida or nw coastal region for that unless there are some close I don't know about. If you like fairies and click around (I mainly use my domain to dump my photos I post) and find my free antique ebook online with 40 charming illustrations of fairies. I posted the link below, don't think that will cause any flak here because it's free and public domain. That was a lot of work and I burned out on doing websites. I also have a free Victorian postcard site at Fortune City, haven't checked lately if it is still up, haven't touched it for years. Yep, it's still there. To get to the postcards, google victorian postcards hurlbutt hamilton and it will come up on top. My they have surely messed that up with their in-your-face ads and Active X controls. For the fairy book (google doesn't pick it up even though I registered with them), Here is a link that might be useful: Fairy Book Link

Wow interesting! Here is my list with some minor differences with yours: # 1 shiranui # 2 gold nugget: a favorite on this forum! # 3 kishu: Brian, I bought a bag of tiny small mandarins at my asian grocery (the size is about a looney or smaller). It wasn’t label as kishu so I am not sure but they were very, very sweet. They really taste like orange life saver. I read about this description before but never thought much about that until I taste it. The description ws very accurate. # 4 xie shan: winner at the citrus expo held in alabama. Must be really good to win the favor of all those enthusiastic citrus lovers. # 5 page: never taste it but seems a classic to have. Everyone was raving anout this variety in another forum some years. Sugar Belle, Pixie, Daisy and Tango are all great varieties but I never taste them and can’t find lot of information on them.