From: hermine <hermine at endangeredspecies.com>
on 2012.02.04 at 19:13:19(22550)
At 03:29 AM 2/4/2012, Kyle Baker wrote:
>well the latest thing to cross my feebler mind is a need to grow
>variegated philo's and the elusive Monstera deliciosa is one that
>has teased me in both waking and unconscious thought...I've
>searched....e-bay $45 for god knows what...glasshouseworks
>$200...and I never was impressed with them..
When I was a child folks grew these things in their Brooklyn
apartments, which were steam heated and did not have all that much
light. these plants came from nurseries in nearby New Jersey like
Roehrs and Mandas, and were sold in five and dime stores and local
florist shops and some of them persisted for YEARS in a charming
juvenile state. Paul Hutchinson of Tropic World told me it was not
worth his time to grow variegate Monstera because folks were always
giving it to each other. I notice on eBay a great deal of
advantage-taking of people who do not live where some plants can be
bought locally for chump change, well, they are being offered for
humongous sums of money, and as a one time mail order rare plant
seller, it maketh my blood to boil.
ALSO i want to mention that even here in California where i have
greenhouses, i have some favourite plants in the almost windowless
kitchen, under a squiggly screw-in fluorescent light, because I WANT
TO SEE THEM and they do just fine.
what are the hard-to-get plants being discussed here? I mean, if
possible I can get them at the local Home Depot and mail them to you.
Our local Home Depot is very rich in some plants which by mail order
are exceedingly costly. one wonders from what magic source they come.
and sometimes, one knows.
hermine
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