My string of hearts've grown quite long, so this summer I tried a few ways to propagate it. I think I should share with you what worked best for me: - I cut a stem with at least 2 nodes and than cut of the leafs on the lower node. - I stuck this end in soil (well draining). I used a small pot and didn't bury too deep the stem, but you have to bury the node, because that's where roots can easily form. It began to develop roots in a week:

I finally saw this post again while on my PC,so here are a couple pictures of mine. <center> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Kathimdgd/media/DSCF2013.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/Kathimdgd/DSCF2013.jpg" border="0" alt="string of hearts 5-9-14 photo DSCF2013.jpg"/></a> </center> <center> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Kathimdgd/media/DSCF2012.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/Kathimdgd/DSCF2012.jpg" border="0" alt="teapot-string of hearts 5-9-14 photo DSCF2012.jpg"/></a> </center> Just went out and took a couple more,will upload them after dinner. Kathi

Those are not oak cabinets. As I started reading this thread, I was starting to compose a reply -- "Am I the only one thinking those are not oak?" but then started running into a growing number of folks saying the same thing. They have a tight grain that looks like maple or possibly cherry, but the way they appear to have taken a stain makes me thing maple. Maple has a tendency to not accept stain evenly and you have some lighter and darker areas. I suspect they are not alder because that is a softer wood and I don't see any dings. They do appear to be in good shape. I'd work with them. As said above, if you have money for granite and tile floors, you have money for paint or stain. If you are willing to take the time to learn and DIY on the cabinets, you may be able to do both. You showed us a lot of the kitchen, but not two things I'd like to see -- your lighting and the cooktop. Do you have a vent hood? Does it exhaust or recirculate the air? I'm wondering if the cabinets have years of gunk built up on them. They look not only yellowed, but possibly dirty or dry. I would give them a really good cleaning for starters. You can't paint or stain until you do that anyway. Then I'd look at the lighting -- It looks like it may be adding to the yellow cast to everything. Any chance you have an older florescent fixture in the kitchen? The wood color looks better in the breakfast nook than it does in the kitchen. Changing or improving your lighting and cleaning your cabinets could make things look a lot different and neither of those should be budget busters. I would paint the walls with some color and then step back and take a look. If you want darker hardware, I'd buy new. It doesn't have to be expensive, but painting hardware is likely to be very temporary. So far, with DIY, we're looking at a few hundred dollars. I would like to remove the soffit in the kitchen itself if possible. If not, I'd paint it or give it a deep crown treatment to carry the cabinet line to the ceiling. You could also paint the ceiling crown to match the ceiling if it will not bother you that is will then be different that the rest of the house. I would not paint the window trim -- the window itself is stained wood and matches all your other windows. Once you get to that point, I would make a decision on painting, gel staining or stipping the cabinets and refinishing. Those are all things you can DIY, but paint and stripping will be time intensive -- which is why there is a lot of cost to them, especially if they need a lot of cleaning and prep work. You don't want any painter who isn't looking at good prep work because the job will not be good or last unless they do it right.

If you put it by the window and in the house. it will be dead and you cannot revive it once the soil dry it gone and over watering again lead root rot and if you plant near any appliance or vent it will kill it. azalea only need 4-5 hr of morning sun and the rest shade. when it is in blooming only water at the root. when you watering plant look at your environment and see if you have wet climate or dry if dry water everyday if wet water every other day but your soil have to drain fast out the pot if you water everyday.