It is a difficult plant to grow, apparently they like heat and humidity. I bought one last spring from the grocery store and kept in a windowsill. Had dreams of fragrant blossoms filling up my house but not one bloom while indoors. It also started to look worse (though I don't think it had bugs) so I transplanted into a bigger pot and put outside for the summer. It looked fairly nice and green but only bloomed once during the summer. We're talking one bloom period. Frost got to it in the fall, but I admit I wasn't exactly rushing to bring it back indoors.

By the way, mastiff's are great dogs so I'm sure you have forgiven him. My niece has one and once he got out of the puppy years, he is really well behaved. He runs around with my pugs and is really a gentle giant.

Glen