Thanks all. I cant wait to meet up with you guys during our fall get together. I have poicinia seeds, henna and few others that i collected on my trip. Easy, Back home it looks like it is blooming all the time :-). This plant is maybe 4-5 years old. Since the weather is tropical there is really no big shifts in temps. jimdaz, Crepe Jasmine, i have pictures of those as well which i will post here real soon. I have been wanting to get one of those as well. Pagancat, I ordered the tuberose bulbs from the place you suggested and one of them has three spike and is ready to bloom any one of these days. i am so excited. Thanks for the information.

Winter?? What's that? We have only wet and dry season LOL. Mine started as a climber on the side of the house. We just prune it back to about 12' tall after it flowers. It sends out long, green wood branches with the aforementioned thorns which try and find a hold to climb. It is these which must be pruned to keep it under control. I prune it about every 3 or 4 months just to keep the long growths down and hard prune it after flowering. Then I give it a good feed and enjoy it for the next few months. It flowers here almost constantly but puts on a really heavy show every few months. I gave an offset to a mate who trained it over wires to grow up onto his garden shed and the roof of his verandah. This has reduced the daytime temperature of both by about 20 degrees. As long as I live in the tropics or subtropics this is one I will always grow. Good luck, Brendon

Hehe guys..I love my double both day and night. Mine is really fragrant during the day though. Falguni, double variety can bloom earlier than single. It can bloom the first year itself. It can be only 6". It cannot be treated as a houseplant since it goes dormant indoors. In winters this plant basically drops all the leaves and awakens only when the temps increases. I don't know how the single takes to bloom and its fragrance but have heard that it takes around 2 yrs to bloom. Tom you shd see a double bloom in its glory. You will change your mind :)

Hi Sultry, I didn't know they they had a dwarf datura variety...that's pretty cool :o)...hopefully they won't go crazy growing everywhere, I guess I can always pull them if they grow in places I don't want. Thanks, are your Double Rangoon Creepers inground or in pots? I noticed they have at least 3 names, lol...I see a name they're called "Quisqualis indica" also...