You still have time..I wish you and your fiance the best of luck. Many many happy years together. :) Is it going to be a big wedding? In a hall, etc? If so, are you planning on placing plants per table? Quite a few 'women' come here asking which plant would do best and look prettiest on tables at the reception. Some even bought a plant per person. Yep, there were good movies this wkend..I switch channels often, prefer a channel w/o a zillion commercials. I'm investing in DVD's..no commercials and I love Special Features. Learning about the actors, how a movie was made, oh and Bloopers are so entertaining. lol Binders. Did you ever get Recipe cards in the mail? They send a dozen or so, each card has a different meal. The idea is to buy more cards every month until a set is completed.. In the 90's, I received 'X' amount of plant cards for free, in the mail. Each card unfolds into four pages. I liked the cards and decided to join this club..'No contract.' It took a 1.5 years to collect all, 1000+ cards. The name is Success with House Plants. They send free plastic binders, and numbered cards that clip inside each binder. BTW, cards didn't come in numerical order, they were sent randomly. There's different Titles per section. For Example: Seasohal Flowers, Plants that bloom all year, Short-lived gift plants, Beautiful green plants, Exotic Plants, Cactus and succulents, Pest and Disease and more. A complete set is five binders. The company stopped selling this collection in the late 90's. I've gotten emails from people who were searching for these binders. I checked Ebay, 'helping people find used binders,' and sure enough, there were a few for sale on Ebay..One problem is most only collected 2 or 3 binders. But others had complete sets. I won't reveal the total cost after I finished paying for the set, but one woman I met here on GW found a complete set for 49.00. Which is dirt cheap!! I enjoy the binders..Each card has picures, and botanical names of each plant, added info like sun, soil, water, temp, propagation, etc. I might snap a pic of these binders later..'making dinner now.' Anyway, I'm glad I joined the club..There's so much to read, and the most beautiful plants.

You seem to be on the right track,but I'm a little confused as to where you are seeing the roots. In the insert? Are they coming out of the bottom of the pots dainage holes? I would take the plant out of the pot and look at the roots. If they are really entwined and obviously root bound, then I'd say yes repot it. But don't go up any more than 1 size, there should me a fingers space between the side of the pot and the soil. I use MG soil as well and it seems to work well, I do ammend it with perlite for more loose soil. I do this with all my plants. If you get the kind w/fertilizer in it, don't feed your PL for 3 months, when the fert is gone from the soil. Good Luck,

Thanks sbuzby for your help. I really don't find the pine cone thing that attractive on the plant but if that's what it takes to let it come to flower, then it stays. This is the first spathe plant I have owned and it is quite nice. I also understand that this is one of the oldest plants around and that they were growing during the time dinosaurs roamed the earth. Now, there's a little bit of trivia for today (lolol).

Rain Lilies as in Zephyranthes? Not very frost hardy (one ref I have says not to be left in the ground where temps get below 25F) so probably best in a pot kept just frost-free for you. The hardiest species are supposed to be atamasca, candida and grandiflora. They like bright light and rich soil with plenty of moisture but not overly wet in winter. The non-evergreen ones benefit from a slightly drier resting period followed by a drenching to encourage a flush of flowers. Those I've grown from seed have taken the usual 3 years or so to flower. The seeds are winged, which is usually a clue not to bury things too deeply. Scatter them over the surface and then lightly cover with potting sand or similar - just enough to anchor them in place. Use a potting mix that is free-draining but moisture retentive, something like equal parts of sand, peat and loam. Good Luck