So, last month-ish, Lou and I ventured up to Sky Nursery, one of the best (and largest) nurseries in Seattle (and that's saying something - those Ballard yuppies DEMAND their designer potting soil), and I grabbed a few herb starts, and most of the seeds that I've planted.
Oh, yeah, I should tell you right now that my mother was a forest ranger when I grew up, and is a gardening goddess.
Back to the nursery, while Lou was picking out a spider plant and fondling ferns for his office (he has some weird fern fetish), I spotted this cute little plant in a 2" pot with no name. The label just said, "2" foliage. $1.79." So, I bring it home, put it in the window, spritz it with water, and it starts reaching out to the sunlight. It gets bigger, so I re-pot it, into a pretty ceramic pot with orchids painted on the side (I found a set of 4 at the big Goodwill on Dearborn). Anyway, so, I'm here with my tiny little thriving-in-the-front-window plant, but I have no f'g clue what the hell the thing is, or might need in the future (scrambled eggs, private school, community college?).
After an extensive search of plant databases online today, I had to break down and call Sky Nursery, get transferred to their Indoor Plant section, and some pubescent college kid laughed at me, assuring me that this was not his first "What the Fuck Did I Buy?" call.
All that, and it's a freaking green ivy! THE plant that will take over the planet after the apocolypse, and I didn't recognize it.
I'm sorry for letting you down, Mom.
Ess, bench, sei a mensch!
-Zanne
Oh, yeah, I should tell you right now that my mother was a forest ranger when I grew up, and is a gardening goddess.
Back to the nursery, while Lou was picking out a spider plant and fondling ferns for his office (he has some weird fern fetish), I spotted this cute little plant in a 2" pot with no name. The label just said, "2" foliage. $1.79." So, I bring it home, put it in the window, spritz it with water, and it starts reaching out to the sunlight. It gets bigger, so I re-pot it, into a pretty ceramic pot with orchids painted on the side (I found a set of 4 at the big Goodwill on Dearborn). Anyway, so, I'm here with my tiny little thriving-in-the-front-window plant, but I have no f'g clue what the hell the thing is, or might need in the future (scrambled eggs, private school, community college?).
After an extensive search of plant databases online today, I had to break down and call Sky Nursery, get transferred to their Indoor Plant section, and some pubescent college kid laughed at me, assuring me that this was not his first "What the Fuck Did I Buy?" call.
All that, and it's a freaking green ivy! THE plant that will take over the planet after the apocolypse, and I didn't recognize it.
I'm sorry for letting you down, Mom.
Ess, bench, sei a mensch!
-Zanne
Ivy took over the yard and ate my toys in front of my childhood house in Pasadena. Curse you, creeping foliage!
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