I am sorry for a late response... Since posting this I actually have more plants available. I have a total of 30 so far. I am interested in trading. I am new to shipping plants so if you can pick up these and want them shipping please give me some advice on shipping. Thanks again.

this is a very interesting thread. i am in NH and i guess i always assumed i had aralia spinosa. after reading all of the above information about elata, i compared my shrub to the information from Janet above. guess what? i DO have aralia spinosa! no doubt about it. everything above matches. A. spinosa has an "inflorescence with a distinct central axis," that is, one main stalk to the flower cluster (YES). With elata, "central axis of the inflorescence very short or lacking" and the inflorescence has 3-8 spreading secondary branches (NO). On spinosa leaves, the veins of the leaflets do not run to the teeth(YES); on elata, they do (NO). Spinosa leaflets have a definite petiole (YES, about 4" on mine), elata leaflets are sessile or nearly so (NO). thank you so much for posting this information so that i could confirm that it is the native variety. gerryld, if i recall, the branches do seem to all fall off over the winter. i never noticed the shrub until last year when it flowered and had outstanding berries. the birds went crazy. mine is also not really not suckering too much.

Island Thanks for the compliments! Let me answer your questions: 1. We ended the backsplash flush with the upper cabinet. We polished the edge of the last tile. There are a couple of inches of wall before it makes the turn. Since we did not go beyond the cabinet, the height is just the 18" of the space between the counter and the upper cabinet. 2. The beehive lights are by Chameleon Lighting. I don't remember the model number but they are on Chameleon's website. The finish is polished nickel. 3. The hardware is by Forms and Surfaces. I forgot the model name. The finish is polished stainless, I believe. They look a lot like polished nickel. I mixed metals throughout but I think it works. The Waterstone faucets are polished chrome, the latches on the tops of the upper cabinets are polished nickel, the pulls are that polished stainless finish and the appliance pulls are Hickory Hardware "bright nickel" so it is all over the place. Forms and Surfaces does not make appliance pulls so I went with the Hickory which was pretty close but not a perfect match in terms of shape. The Forms and Surfaces had a subtle curve on the top and bottom which I like but paid dearly for. The Hickory pull that would have matched the appliance pulls was a quarter of the price of the Forms and Surfaces pull. 4. I would bet that Rutt is sold somewhere in San Diego. By the way, I bought all of my fixtures from International Bath and Tile (aka plumb tile dot com--they also sell over the Internet) located in San Diego. By fixtures, I mean the Waterstone faucets, the Julien sink and the cabinet hardware. I first used them for my bathrooms. I suspect that they have a really nice showroom because they sell every high-end brand. 5. I did two bathrooms in 2011. I posted pics in June 2011 under "pics of my new bathrooms" which you can just google. The pics are not very good because the baths are only five feet wide and very long, so it was difficult to get good angles. Happy to answer questions though.

What it's like to have a good hair day for a S.A. succulent bulb and find way into the misfit onion collection here. Any cosmologist would be proud of the up do style on (IMO) better stakes ( an update on a prior pic) Two shoots have growth that stretches to 35 feet from end to end Bowiea volubilis is ready for the town. Some of the other items that are called Misfit onions in the collection include Ornithogalum caudatum It use to have very very long growth w that just got in the way A fast wack and little more fatter it becomes. AKA The AKA "False Sea Onion is faster at pup/ baby making than anything else though. apx 180-200 of them over the past five years some are tossed in pots and mixed in with other sun loving suxs ( Euphorbia cuttings mostly most have been tossed as PIGs it's kind of a bummer that there not zone hardy A sweet fragrant flowering spike fills the late winter air inside. Host: Fast forward 35 or so years for that little one & you should have something that looks like this. You might not get yours to develop the split personality though. A little thirsty today while getting it's peeling back as I want the top to be self supporting Schizobasis intrica soon to come into flower Not always but can sometimes flower tiny little stars from it's tips twice with in a 12 month cycle