proudgm, I basically took the little "whirly birds" that fall off the maple trees in the spring and put them in a pot of dirt and sunk the pot in the ground in a sunny location. The following spring, I many had sprouts. Over the next couple of years, I kept them in the containers, but moved the container to the yard where I bought my house. I just put them into their own individual pots and sunk the pots into the ground in a sunny spot this past weekend. That is how it all started. So, ever 2-3 years would be safe. They are slow growing. The biggest one in only 6"-8" tall, and that is after about 4 years! Good luck!

Whatever parts of it doesn't receive sunlight will die back - so yes it's natural. The only way to keep it green is to relocate it to an area that it can receive full sun.

I've got some but have not used them yet.There are all kinds of pages in the recent pages that use them.

I had a similar experience. Started going to a new salon specifically because I had heard about this stylist who was great with short hair. Went to her, liked the cut a lot, but after two appts., she went on maternity leave. So I went to another stylist in the salon and I liked her a lot too, and ended up deciding to grow out my hair. By the time stylist #1 came back to work, I had seen stylist #2 several times (more times than I'd seen #1), and she was doing a great job getting me thru the awkward growing-out stages, so I wasn't about to go back to #1. I did feel kind of awkward the first day I saw her, but she just smiled, said hi, and I did the same, and that was it. My situation was obviously easier because I hadn't been seeing the first stylist for very long, but I still felt weird about it at first.