May I suggest that you purchase 3 gallon plants, which should be available in any garden center or nursery in your location? Wax myrtles grow sooooo quickly that you won't be sorry you did it. It might be more difficult to find the larger sizes.

The Camelias are absolutely beautiful in early march this year - Some have said that because we had a consistently cool or cold winter (no warming trends) the buds did not get tricked into thinking Spring was here early and therefore didn't get damaged. Now in early April, the azaleas are gorgeous! Here is a link that might be useful: http://ourburnsfamily/com/gallery/camelias

They weren't "limping" - they were being towed. And then a tow line broke, so they couldn't pull hard with the remaining (one?) so were moving at a very slow rate. When they evacuate a ship, they do it into some other floating object, almost always a small craft, such as a life boat. I doubt that they would evacuate such a cruise ship into life boats unless the main ship were either sinking or at risk of doing so ... and such would not include overflowing toilets. I don't know how easy, or not dangerous, it would be to move another large vessel alongside, then tie them together and move the 4,000 people from one to the other, even if the sea were calm. Perhaps it could not even be done at all. Even to move 4,000 people from one ship to another a few hundred feet away would be a huge, and somewhat, risky, enterprise ... and the helicopters would need to travel to land, or have another ship with fuel aboard to sit nearby, in order to refuel. Even though sometimes I need to flush my john up to three times in order to get the job done ... ... I prefer that to the conditions dealt with by the people on that ship ... 'cause my john hasn't overflowed yet. (And it'd be much easier to deal with, even were it to do so). ole joyful

Jordan, That stub above the last node from which the uppermost green shoot is growing is dead. Just prune it off if it's troubling you to look at it.