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.