Yes, coffeemom LOVES coffee and several other beverages along with good salsa. You will enjoy your plant just make sure you plant it where it can spread and then keep it in control as needed. It is beautiful mixed with Ti plants or ornamental grasses. Yes, you do need to start attending swaps and we do not expect new gardeners to bring anything to swap and you will go home with so many plants you will think you have won the lottery. I have plants and then lose them because most of them are in containers and if I get sick or work lots of hours my housemate does not know how to tend for them. I just came out of a year of illness and mourning and I lost a lot of my plants due to neglect and not caring but I am so sorry now and I am beginning over with a lot of stuff and I will have things to trade and would love to meet you. Please plan on attending the next one and fawnridge's swap is the swap of the year. Good luck with your garden. Linda

Anna, thank you so much for the heads-up and warning. I really appreciate it. (My sarcastic side wants to say "Promises, promises" because I really do like this plant.) I don't need anything invasive. It has always lived in that pot and as far as I know, it has never self-sown, but now that it is in the ground things could change. I can see how those nodes would root, too. And here I am, trying to germinate seeds! Well I will keep a watchful eye. Thank you very much! Carol

One of the primary reasons I love swaps over buying plants (other than the company of great gardeners) is that they are tried and true for our particular neck of the woods. I love getting the feed back from fellow gardeners of their experiences with each plant, and it allows me to know whether I want to grow it or not. We would love to have beginners.......it is fun to bestow our information on them as they embark into this wonderful world of gardening. Let us hear from you either here on the web or by email.

I dearly love all the five varieties of shrimp plants I have. In a mild winter they never stop blooming. Mine are growing in shady conditions under the eaves (they are one of the plants recommended for dry shade) and wilt quite a bit when the sun hits them for an hour or two. I'm not sure how well they'd take full or near full sun conditions. Look around your neighborhood and see I guess. Or maybe someone reading this grows them in more sun than I do.