njoynit I have some African Lion's Tail seed. i don't know if it is the annual or perennial variety. You can check out my exchange list if you want penny

@HU-796072056 Hello! I chose the bambino because of the color I was looking for, the budget, the low foot traffic in my house. I have no kids or pets in the house. I was aware of it being 5.5mm. For more peotection, I recommend 7.7mm+. I’ve had my first incident where I dropped a knive on the kitchen, by accident, and it hit the floor with the sharp point and it made a small cut. I realized it’s very thin. I’ve placed area rugs where I spend more time doing things and could drop object by accident :). I’m clumpsy! Also, all my furniture have protection to avoid damage when moving them. Like anything, it‘s just taking care of it. I do have to say, if I do it again, i would demolish the old floors in the whole house and then be able to place the planks on the floor before installing since some of the knots are too close together. the installees where going room by room and i was able to be here. it would have been more days of installation and at that point I let it go. The installers tried, but it was hard since the plank design repeat every 10 planks and have an open floor plan. if you get a chance, tell your installers (if not you) to place them on the floor ahead of installation that way you can avoid that. keep that in mind in case you need extra days. My installers were not designers. Now I know:).

If you are in L.A. then I suggest you contact Danny at Simple Floors in North Hollywood to see what price he can give you on Lions floors. I lived in the apartment after I installed the Lotus Clove Lions flooring for about 4 months. I loved it. I used to make fun when they called it 'LUXURY' vinyl flooring. Living with it changed my mind. I like the texture and the look of it and I could see it in the near future replacing real wood in higher end homes... they just need to deal with the repeat pattern problem of LVP. Seeing the same knot over and over is distracting. Now, I'm back in my unit with the engineered oak floors and I can say without a doubt that the Lions LVP wears out socks at an incredible rate. I have to wear support socks when I work out and a pair of new $70 socks had holes in a week walking on LVP. On the slicker oak floors my sock do not wear out. That wood texture that looks so good in raking sunlight is very abrasive.

Sorry to hear that -- didn't know. Tom was in the "Advanced collector" group (trees) that I belong to on Facebook. He posted occasionally, usually about conifers. I'd remarked in some of his posts, but had never messaged him.