Fantastic! Thank you guys....close to a Monstera then, but their labelling could have been somewhat better! I shall try very hard to keep up the good work (although I suspect the plant's success is more down to the plant itself than to anything I'm doing!! - maybe it just likes my windowsill.....) Thanks again - I'm off to read up on it now :-)

I think come June an July my whold front yard is going to be shade. I been watching the past few days no 1 area in the front yard gets more than an hour of sun a day. The yard is very small 20x 30 feet about the oaks are 25 yrs old so good sized trees. There not as many leaves on them now as there will be come summer so even tho the days are shorter now be more shade in summer or just as much. Not a lot of money to spend on yard an if hubby spends 100.00 on yard that a lot of money to him for a yard that he really does not care if there is grass or anything out there he could care less what it looks like. So what ever I do I have to know for a fact it will grow not just this yr but in years to come because he's not gonna want to fork over the money yearly. 1 big problem with the grass has been it's never been able to take root good before someone came along an scalped it with a mower. The yard needs a couple of years of grass only being cut 3 or 4 times a summer but the others in the community not about to let that happen because the yard will look unkept. Many of the yards has same problem in sun an shade no grass because it's never been allowed to grow an become good strong grass. Maybe I can lay cardboard then mulch a good bit of it set some ornaments out there not everyone likes yard art tho never going to please everyone tho.....

When i thin the herd of plants i don't need more of i give them away on free cycle. I don't even have to meet people just bag up a bag and put their name on it and set it under the oak in the front and the people come and get the plants. One season i decided i,d had enough of a certain thug of a plant and pulled it out and gave away 8 grocery sacks of barerooted plants to 5 people with the warning the plant was a garden thug and would grow in the shade where nothing else would.

"Grow a hosta as an annual"? How exactly does that work? My folks live in northern Michigan. they have a couple largish plastic pots (think they're about 12" diameter and about 18" inches tall or so) containing mini hosta. (Names long lost, unfortunately. Unlike me, they don't care about knowing such things so threw the tags away.) The pots are by the house sitting on a couple cement pavers. The pots sit there all year long. They are not moved to a more sheltered spot for the winter, nor is any effort made to provide some cover or insulation. The pots have been in the same spot for years. The hosta have completely filled each pot. Not sure how much more one could do to treat them as annuals. :-D As far as large pots go .... Well as suggested, you could simply grow EW and when she gets too big, divide her and either sell, trade, or gift the divisions keeping one for yourself with which to start anew. How picky are you with the look of your pots? You have some time to look around. Hit estate/garage sales, thrift stores like GoodWill/Salvation Army, check your local FreeCycle and CraigsList. If you are on FaceBook, you could check there too. You could also simply get one of those huge pickle buckets from Lowes/HD (the type contractors often use). If the look of a bucket appalls you, you can try painting it or even, after sanding the outside a bit to rough it up, smearing some cement over it to give it more of a rock look.