I haven't made the attempt to divide it yet, Alice. It's a bifoliate Catt and they never take kindly to being divided, even when the plant is obviously in two parts. I'm afraid I'll just kill it outright. But . . who knows, desperation may be the mother of invention and after I get home from this trip, maybe that will be the time to take the bull by the horns, and saw it in half.
I'm thinking that growing these plants in conditions that really are too hot and wet for them for at least half the year may have something to do with why they just last so long, then go downhill. I really can't see anything outwardly wrong with it, and have tried a bunch of different stuff to revive it. But it continues to shrivel up its pb's and dry off it's leaves. New growths have been getting infected with black spot this summer, too, which doesn't help.
