Hi Mike, Dont buy the oxypetalum. I am sending you a few pieces of this one. It is true that they grow like crazy. I left this one at my parents house when I moved out because it does take a tremendous amount of space. I got a call from my mom and she told me that she was waiting for the day that that was going to strangle her..LOL. Once you have an established cutting, you can expect some new growths to be a couple feet long. No joke, mine had some growths that were 4 ft long in one summer!! The blooms are great! Just make sure your going to be home to enjoy them! Mine only lasted one night and that was it. As soon as the sun went down, the bud would begin to open. By the time the sun came up, it was closing. Logees describes it as having flowers the size of dinner plates. I had some that were even larger than that!!! Mine is pitifull now compared to when it was in its glory. I wished I would have found a way to care for it here. At one point, that plant was around 10ft long but I have had it for over 10 years. You can control the growth with pruning. Just make sure you do it at the right time or you will end up with no blooms. I will have to read up on my notes on this before I can tell you when to prune it. I can send you 3-4 nice cuttings next week with the others if you want okay? I also have a nice big pink epi. I don't know the name of the variety but it is really pretty. Trust me, neither of them will take a lifetime to get blooms from. My oxy bloomed in 1.5-2 years after I got it. I started a couple for friends and the one I gave to my landlords mom bloomed the same year I rooted it! The pink variety I bought locally and they had rooted cuttings with buds on them. I will say that it may take a couple years for those blooms to reach there potential. Andrew

Yes to above. Definitely mainstream in the late thirties, all through the forties and into the early fifties as an answer to a traditional styled dining table one could fit into the smaller homes or homes with no formal dining room. Often had one small fold-in leaf in the middle, sometimes a small drawer on one side. Usually had hardwood pedestals stained to match. Catalogues often sold the table with no chairs or let you choose the chair style you liked best to go with it. IOW not as a set.

I would say the same as Breasley. An Asian market or specialty shop of sorts. If you can't find it I'll be happy to send you some. Please let me know. I live in a very diverse area and have Asian markets and Indian markets everywhere. And also, most of our supermarkets carry a wide range of ethnic foods and I tend to forget that not every town in America carries all of these products that I take for granted.

Thanks so much! I really appreciate your kind comments, and can't wait to hear about the table. That size would be perfect for my 'bowling alley' living room, which is 10 x 25 - front to back, and common in these old Capes. I've made an informal dining area in the back of the LR, since it needed to be broken up into more than one area. The kitchen is through the doorway to the left in the link below. Much of the furniture in my house is from CL, eBay, or like the desk above and the Irish pine corner cupboard you'll see in this pic, from a local consignment shop. I LOVE antiques and vintage, and you'll see I am NOT a minimalist, by any stretch of the imagination. (Lots of 'stuff', but to me, it's cozy.) Gail Here is a link that might be useful: