Sansevieria are supposed to be summer-dormant plants, i.e., they do most of their growing in fall, spring, and winter as an adaptation to the harsh summer conditions in their native habitat. Changes in day or night length are the normal triggers to go in or out of dormancy (and to flower, etc.) However, despite this scientific fact, I read a lot about people's Sans growing the most during the summer (or at least spring and fall). My hypothesis is that cool in-home temperatures slow down the chemical reactions and biological processes of heat-loving Sans so much that they are unable to grow during their normal, natural growing period when kept as potted house plants, and that's why so many people report the greatest growth during the warmer months of the year. A rhizome is just an underground stem. Pups are just leaves on an underground stem, or new "branch", so that's how you can treat them. With most Sans, the whole plant is underground except the leaves. You might be able to deal with the water-retentive media by watering with a high pressure squirt bottle. Some people here are going to hiss at me, but it's a "cheater's" method for keeping moisture-intolerant plants healthy in water-retentive soil. I've kept plants that way for years. Get a squirt bottle or squirt gun with a very strong single stream (those squirt ends for outdoor herbacides and pesticides are good - cleaned WELL of course). Place the tip on the soil, point it down toward the roots, and fire. Do it all around the plant so there are roughly evenly spaced wet streaks in the otherwise pretty dry soil. If the stream is good enough, it'll squirt several inches into the medium. This prevents the dreaded "perched water" near the bottom of the pot where rot usually starts. In media like peat, those wet streaks inside the pot disperse into damp columns. If you pay attention, you can alter your shots each watering so you do dampen almost all the soil over several weeks so it is never all wet at the same time, but every part gets damp at different times. It is an excellent method for the hopeless over-waterer who just can't resist the urge to give a plant a drink. You get to mess with your plant all the time without killing it. You can even squirt a little water up through the drain holes, or with plastic pots, you can stick holes in the side with a hot nail just for this purpose. It works. You CAN even over-water with this method, but you're less likely too. Don't tell on me, but I'm maintaining several plants this way right now.

they usually flower starting Sept. and throgh the winter months. some need extremely harsh growing conditions to even think about it. Some need damp and shade and other just time,age, tight pots and only on new growth and their own season. the only one that I have at the moment is San.concinna it has started out with lime green buds, turning whate as they opened last night, just a few at a time, most open at night and smell like sweet orange blossoms. I always need to put them outside at night, I do bring them in only when in flower. This is the first time it flowered since 1996, and is a slow grower with spoon shaped leaves, on a thin petiole. Any questions? I am not the expert. I can respond to beginner questions only. I'm not a botantist. I'm not proffing this, have had surgery on my right hand and cant use it well at all, sorry, Norma

Yes...Nandina and not really a bamboo but an evergreen shrub. The berries are supposed to be toxic from what I remember. I've often thought about clipping some leaves/berries for display but no thanks! Too bad since the berries on ours are orange during the fall and red at Christmas. We have 8 HB shrubs that are all in mostly shade or filtered light. Found this photo and other info online... "All parts of the plant are poisonous, containing compounds that decompose to produce hydrogen cyanide, and could potentially be fatal if ingested. The plant is placed in Toxicity Category 4, the category "generally considered non-toxic to humans", but the berries are considered toxic to cats and grazing animals. Excessive consumption of the berries will kill birds such as cedar waxwings, because they are subject to cyanide toxicosis, resulting in death to multiple individuals at one time. The berries also contain alkaloids such as nantenine, which is used in scientific research as an antidote to MDMA (ecstasy)."

Hello again. I think I answered you in another web site. The crowns have reached their life cycle but will continue to live on but no new growth. It will still be the best base unit for new pup growth and become a fuller plant in near future.