Josh and all, I've had one for years. It makes a leaf or two in some years, nothing at all in most years. It has never bloomed, and it may well be dead now -- I have not dumped it out in the last several years. I grow it (if that's what you want to call storing it in a dry pot for years at a time without visible growth) in a deep pot in nearly pure sand. It sits outdoors in most summers and gets natural rain. Some years it sits inside the greenhouse for the whole year. I clearly don't know how to grow it. Jim Shields in hot, humid, miserable central Indiana At 03:36 PM 8/4/2010 -0700Josh wrote: >Has anyone been able to keep this plant alive? It is for sure a very >interesting plant with foliage and bloom interest! ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA