Jul 23, 2019
The bastard man strikes again!
There he is!
The bastard man strikes again!
There he is!
When you’re just sitting down in your house, relaxing with your phone, and you realize there’s no plants in the vicinity:
NEW BABIES! NEW BABIES!
I started making travel wees again and have gotten my mom into making them, too. We call them Weetches and Weezards!
Listed on our Etsy, and will hopefully be able to do customs after vending in Davenport, IA November 18/19 at Mystical Moonspinner’s Quad City Psychic and Paranormal Expo
I’m going to have a problematic plant rant:
If you are someone who got into plant keeping during the pandemic and have done no research on your own prior to buying an expensive ass plant: I don’t feel sorry for your pitfalls. I feel sorry for the plant who was unfortunate enough to be bought by someone who thinks they can buy their way into the hobby
People are buying single node stem cuttings of variegated monstera and other obscure rares for $200+ then going to plant groups to ask how to care for it because they fear they’re going to kill it? Dumb. If you don’t have complete confidence in caring for a plant that is worth more than half a paycheck: leave if for someone else! Plants smell fear and will rot and die out of spite
I don’t care how much money you spent on a plant if you don’t know how to take care of it
you can buy so many plants from Lowe’s and Home Depot for the same price, practice propagating pothos and heart leaf philodendron; accidentally kill a few ferns: learn how to care for different plants affordably before selling your soul for the new variegated syngonium
I’m debating whether or not to buy another plant online...
And risk it not being the same variety I want, or going to a local nursery and see if I can haggle the price down from $75. There is no reason for their houseplants to be that outrageously priced. I have two varieties of banana and paid $12 and $14 for the same size from other nursery’s. I’ve got a monstera deliciosa and philodendron hope for $25, then found them for sale at hyvee (same size!!) for $15. At this garden center, 4-6 inch plants are priced $20-$45!
Nobody there knows the varieties of the house plants they sell. One employee said that a peperomia was a Hoya when I asked: it was a pixie lime.
I only started going crazy with plants and gardening this year, I shouldn’t be able to go into a store that sells plants and gardening supplies, and know more than the employees that have been working there longer than I have been buying plants! They sell roses and have a Japanese beetle problem and don’t use the beetle traps that they sell!
But anyways: This is the elephant ear I want.
And he’s so gorgeous, the only Colocasia I’m finding are black beauty, Illustris, black magic, coal miner. But none of them match up :( I’m thinking of getting a black beauty start, because it’ll be pretty even if it ends up not being exact.
So there’s a nursery I like to call a plant zoo
They have three greenhouses, a tree yard, and a couple other areas.
One of the greenhouses is how the nickname plant zoo came from:
I’m not a huge fan of plain green foliage, but they have some cool plants!
Look at all those succulents, some of them have to be real flipping old to be as big as they are
Like where would anyone put this? Those guys just live in there... this isn’t California - and we’re getting a lot of rain...
They aren’t even badly priced either? My mom paid more for the endless summer hydrangea from here than most of these bid ol green kids...
I just really love going to the local nurseries every couple of days, it’s very stress relieving when I’m done looking after all of my plants
#BuyHerRopesNotRoses #BuyHerRopes #NotRoses Well... maybe buy the #Roses too! (at United States) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpqrTseHhOc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gvws05yncv39