lol...Karen...when I read what it was you were considering purchasing, I was about to say 'Don't!' These seem to have trouble adjusting to growing indoors when purchased as full-grown plants. (I've tried, myself, at least twice!) Seedlings seem to adjust better, since they 'grow up' in the conditions you're planning to grow them in. Then I saw your photo....and, well...I think I'd have bought it too! Besides, with spring in full swing and summer on the way, your plant stands a better chance of acclimating and growing indoors. I've noted from past posts on this and the Hoya forum that you seem to succeed with some plants that others have trouble with....hoping this is one of those for you.(Ã) It's *really* beautiful....post photos of open blooms, please, and let us know about the scent. (I had to log in, yet again! Does anyone else have this problem...seems every couple of months I have to log in.)

This one is about 6inches, he did come back out. He is beautiful. My first time with fish, guess I am a worrier not knowing what to expect. They just came here today, and they haven't been out too much, I guess they are afraid. Everytime I do see it we get so excited. Hopefully each day they will come up a little more. Thanks koidog.

Well - I grow mine in a east garden window in the kitchen. It seems to grow like a weed - actually so much so that I gave my largest one away to my mother who is now got it growing outside for the summer only. I find my stephanotis seems to really like my garden window in the summer - I guess cause it gets a fair amount of direct sun there and in the winter it gets pretty cold - probably about 50 or so. And I am POSITIVE that is why mine always flowers again so readily for me after the cold winter is over. I have always used african violet fertilizer on my step too. Actually I just bought myself my newest steph. this year in spring and it was in flower. I put it directly into my garden window which again was fairly cool - and now it is just about to reflower again for me. I guess I fooled it into thinking it was winter again. And now that its warming up - flowers! :0) Hope that somewhat helped. Golden

Thank you all for your responses. I've copied and forwarded them all to her. I'm hoping that she'll share them with her husband and that they'll both get their act together. I especially stressed what you advised about getting his urine tested and the neutering. My husband and I were talking about this last night and remember trying to talk them out of getting more dogs because they never really trained them. But she's always been the type of person who when she wants something she gets it, regardless of the cost. When they tore up their furniture nothing seemed to be said to them which always left us scratching our heads. After replacing furniture three times she finally tossed them all out in the back yard and I doubt they've been in their house since. Her husband used to jog with them but that stopped a while ago when he got some type of exercise machine. We've always had large female dogs and have never ever had a problem with their behavior (or pee). This may be an odd statement, but it seems that whenever we've gotten a puppy we always had an older dog who seemed to immediately take over the training and we were just there to reinforce it. :) My husband is a big man at 6"5" and hates any type of social gathering and it shows. But he can walk into a room or house with a scowl on his face and every kid and animal in a half mile radius go right up to him. Animals always seem to mind him, even at first meeting. They have him figured out the second they see him. We could always take any of our dogs anywhere and they're the most well-behaved dogs around. I'm always grateful for our dogs when we're around our friend's dogs. We moved away from their area a few years ago so I haven't been around to personally witness the problems they've had since, nor do I want to. We think that our cat is doing a little better. It's been a week now and we were starting to think that it wasn't going to happen. Last night he stayed on my lap for quite a long time, played with one of his toys and went to sleep in my arms (which I had missed this past week) and today he even played "noses" with our dog. Our dog is a monster sized dog (picture a mix of chow and the largest German Shepard you ever saw then add a foot) so that did my heart good. Our older cat is both indoor/outdoor (he was a throw away cat when we took him in), altho prefers to be in the house most of the time. The kitten, coming from a feral mother, is more of an outside cat but we were working on him being in the house more and more when the problem started a week ago. When we took in the older cat it was like he always lived here but we knew with the kitten it would be different. So not actually ever trained a cat before we knew we were/are in uncharted territory so took a patient, slow but sure approach. We live between two empty fields and the older cat prefers to do his 'duty' out there. In the past year I think he's only used his litter box maybe 5 times. After we started bringing the kitten in at night we got a second litter box and the kitten has always used them (thankfully). We were planning on getting a second cat carrier this coming Spring as we know that we will need it when we take them to the kennel when we go on vacation. Now we think that we're going to get it sooner and see if he'll take to a new carrier and hopefully the next visit to the vet won't bee so traumatic for him. Anyway, thank you all for your time and help. Jenna