You can't send Iresine through the mail in winter - it'll freeze and die, plus it needs so much water that if packaged to 'hold' the water, in the dark, in plastic, will end up rotting by the time it arrives. The stems are very thin and it's a fairly fragile thing. You could probably find seeds on an on-line site though - google 'houseplant seeds'.

Karen, perhaps you're busy..When you get a chance, please post pictures.. Purple..how on earth do you post a link that leads to a plant in the middle of a paragraph? Does it require a software program? Tiff and Need2. I thought D. Warneckii's color was lime-green. There's so many stripped Dracaenas, at times it's impossible making an accurate ID. Tiff...I got this guy on Ebay, 2009. Another stripped Dracaena, but no variety name. Dracaena is not warneckii, but it's another stripped variety. I love Aralias, but they're very difficult..especially during winter. Aralia is another plant that has several varieties..one reason I can't wait to see Karen's new babies. HD has a few types, but since I kill them, I must pass them up! Aralias know better not to jump in my cart. lol.

Persian Shield(alternathera ficoidea) can be rooted in water. I've never had problems rooting it in a peat based soiless mix. I like to have a cutting apx. 4" long usually from the tip of the plant,with two leaf noides at the bottom of the cutting(leaves striped off,of course),cut the top out,leaving 3-4 leaves. If the leaves are large cut them back by half.see webpage walterreeves.com Never tried Chiken Gizzards(Iresine herbstii) but from what I found on search,it can be done pretty much the same as above.found some info on webpage killerplants.com PP

Man, I'm out of practice giving dinner parties. At least hot pot is easy. It is a fun sort of dinner too, very communal. Here is the kitchen with dinner in progress. I'm making broth here. The chicken broth got seasoned with soy sauce, rice wine, rice vinegar, ginger, S&P. The beef broth needed a help from a whole jar of jellied beef broth I've been saving. I also marinated the scallops, mussels, beef, shrimp, and lotus root. [URL=http://s800.photobucket.com/user/jylmks/media/592B4240-62DA-4A9C-B89F-8CBD6603C256_zpsvrwb4mql.jpg.html][IMG]http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/jylmks/592B4240-62DA-4A9C-B89F-8CBD6603C256_zpsvrwb4mql.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The table set. We had several kinds of noodles, a few kinds of mushrooms, other veggies, fish balls, shrimp balls, and the marinated proteins. Not shown, but we also made pork & shrimp shao mai, pork & leek dumplings, pork short ribs, steamed buns, and other stuff. I also marinated and fried some mackerel, and simmered some other mackerel in sake, mirin, and soy sauce. The soup dumplings did not get made, sadly. Ran out of time and energy. [URL=http://s800.photobucket.com/user/jylmks/media/890E3466-9B82-4391-A58E-2D436A53D0A7_zpsiwjbggs3.jpg.html][IMG]http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/jylmks/890E3466-9B82-4391-A58E-2D436A53D0A7_zpsiwjbggs3.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And this is during dinner. The bald guy is a neurosurgeon. His wife runs their vineyard and they've started making wine, which is very good. He and I mostly talk about cocktails and guns. My friend from a big local semiconductor company talked to me about the current downturn in that industry. I told his wife she shouldn't be hard on their daughter for not doing well in high school physics, because our high school does a really terrible job of teaching that subject. My daughter took physics there and understood nothing; I couldn't figure out what she was supposed to do in her assignments, despite two years of college physics, their approach to the subject is so opaque. My son won't take physics there. My friend brought his new boyfriend (fingers crossed), who made fun of me by speaking Cantonese which I don't understand at all. There were some kids there, they had a good time. [URL=http://s800.photobucket.com/user/jylmks/media/7D13EBA3-3313-46C8-9F09-67FD8B0F56A3_zpsult0gbk0.jpg.html][IMG]http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/jylmks/7D13EBA3-3313-46C8-9F09-67FD8B0F56A3_zpsult0gbk0.jpg[/IMG][/URL] We cleaned up, mostly, and I went to bed at midnight. Got up at 6 am to drive daughter back to college. Actually she drove most of the way, she's finally learning to drive!. I was so tired that on the return drive, I had to pull over in a rest stop. Okay, back to one pot meals and leftovers. I just haven't been cooking much lately.