Hi Mike, Dont buy the oxypetalum. I am sending you a few pieces of this one. It is true that they grow like crazy. I left this one at my parents house when I moved out because it does take a tremendous amount of space. I got a call from my mom and she told me that she was waiting for the day that that was going to strangle her..LOL. Once you have an established cutting, you can expect some new growths to be a couple feet long. No joke, mine had some growths that were 4 ft long in one summer!! The blooms are great! Just make sure your going to be home to enjoy them! Mine only lasted one night and that was it. As soon as the sun went down, the bud would begin to open. By the time the sun came up, it was closing. Logees describes it as having flowers the size of dinner plates. I had some that were even larger than that!!! Mine is pitifull now compared to when it was in its glory. I wished I would have found a way to care for it here. At one point, that plant was around 10ft long but I have had it for over 10 years. You can control the growth with pruning. Just make sure you do it at the right time or you will end up with no blooms. I will have to read up on my notes on this before I can tell you when to prune it. I can send you 3-4 nice cuttings next week with the others if you want okay? I also have a nice big pink epi. I don't know the name of the variety but it is really pretty. Trust me, neither of them will take a lifetime to get blooms from. My oxy bloomed in 1.5-2 years after I got it. I started a couple for friends and the one I gave to my landlords mom bloomed the same year I rooted it! The pink variety I bought locally and they had rooted cuttings with buds on them. I will say that it may take a couple years for those blooms to reach there potential. Andrew

Ron, you have an e-mail, let me know if you do not receive it.

Because the movies are protected by copyright, you might have more luck with a commercial site that sells Monty Python products (they'll have the necessary permissions). That is probably the only way to get a nice quality image. You can purchase special paper that will print iron-on transfers from an ink jet printer, but they won't be as sharp as what you'd get from a commerical printer (and that doesn't get around the copyright issue).

Just coming across this discussion a couple years later. my home was milled on site in 1907. since moving in 2 years ago, we have been busy with a list of projects large & small. these wall & floor vents were one of the first things on the list, mostly because I have no interest in fishing my 1 & 3 year old out of them. I agree with you Russ. This was the standard hardware & fashion for the time. There was a metal vent shaft that covered the wood shaft. A screw, then eye of the hook hardware threaded onto screw at one end. The end of the Hook fastens to the hole in the metal shaft. All of mine are this way as well. I have not seen these parts in my searches either. Over the years if the metal shafts are damaged or removed, I’m sure you would have to get creative & secure the vent cover another way. local hvac company sounds like a good place to look. Also, I have come across good accessories online at ”house of antique hardware”. here is a picture of our vent with inside hook & screw attatched & unattached.