LOL...thanks for your support against my affliction, Bob! I want one, but I really really don't need one for a few reasons. 1) I have limited space here which is already MORE than spoken for and 2) I'll be going on clinical rotations in a couple years and will not be around to take care of things so they'd have to be left with my mother at home. And to give you an estimate of how well she treats my plants...I used to have 15 very nice bonsai trees and now have ONE...if you even consider that one a full tree cause it looks terrible. It'd be much to hard on me to grow something so beautiful just to see it die a terrible death
My mother even killed a lucky bamboo! How is that even done? I mean, you put it in a bowl of water and it grows! Yet she manages to have certain plants she's had for 20+ years that are doing wonderfully. Basically, if it doesn't run on the 'water once every two weeks' schedule, it probably won't last long in her care. And we all know that schedule does not work with bananas/tropicals.