Thanks for the info, Daisy. I have several stevia plants. When they started floweing, I cut them back and made my major harves. I only left one of them to go on with flowering, so that I can collect seeds. Right not that plant is full of flowers. Honey and bumble bees like them a lot, so do some white butterflies. The ones that I cut back, are growing new branches. I figure by the time it cools off (early november, maybe) I will have my final harvest. I have already dehydrated my first harvest. I also kept the stems and have ground them separately from the leaves. I mix it with ground coffee. They are also sweet though not as sweet as the leaves. cyrus i\

No, I got plants - and apparently have several varieties, because the leaf and plant structure is completely different for several of them. I wouldn't hesitate to propagate from cuttings. I grow it in pots so I can bring it in during the winter.

I believe I have both stevia and rosemary seeds. Please look at my list and see if I have anything thing of interest. I would love to have cinnamon basil as well as flowers.

Remember that stevia probably won't live through a winter outside where you are - I grow mine in pots here in Virginia so that I can bring them in for winter. I don't really "prune" the plants, rather I harvest. In the beginning, I cut them back to no more than about 3-inches, then let the branches grow out to 6 to 10-inches, then cut them off just after the first leaves. I'll include a sprig or two in pots of herbal teas I make during the summer months, but I also dry a lot to include in my herbal tea blends that I drink when fresh herbs are not available. I suppose you could dry it and pulverize it down to a fine powder to sprinkle or use in other ways, but I haven't done that. I probably would never use a chemical fungicide on any of my herbs - this is a plant where I will be seeking to leach out the essence of the leaves - why would I want to poison myself? My stevia does tend to pick up scale insects, and it seems ants like farming the insects, which could also include aphids, etc. Immediately after cutting the entire plant down to a little clump, I will often spray with neem oil when scale insects are present, which helps with any fungus problems as well. Since the entire plants get cut back three or four times a summer, that is the extent of my maintenance. It is really important to eliminate all the scale or insect issues you have before bringing them in for the winter, as the biggest source of plant loss I've had is the expansion of scale.