Tuesday 22 January 2013

First Plant Purchase of 2013

Last week danger garden posted about her first plant purchase of 2013.  It came to my attention that I had not purchased any plants in 2013. Not that this would last long, but I felt it gave me permission to spoil myself. After all, you have to kick off the plant hunting season at some point, right? So when I set off to Vancouver over the weekend, I felt a sense of freedom in my "planty" lusts. This sense of plant indulgence was heightened of course by my observing of some great plants around town. We were walking around Coal Harbour when my friend Becca pointed out some epic succulent containers that had not appeared phased by winter at all! Check out these beauties.... (I wanted to get some close up pictures but was given an evil finger wave from the buildings doorman - darn!)


But seeing such a display of happiness got the plant juices flowing deep down in my heart. I don't often share about my deep love and affection for tillandsias. And up there on my tillandsia plant lust radar is tillandsia xerographica. In fact, I would describe it as the the holy grail of air plants. Unfortunately it often is priced as the holy grail and thus I usually just admire them in the store. But like I said,  the plant juices were flowing... and home came the xerographica! I took this picture in preparations of the weekly Downton Abbey party (hence the silver tea service).

I just love the silvery almost ghost like presence the xerographica adds to tillandisa mix. And I find that buying my first plant of the 2013 season is somewhat momentous. That is because I know I have merely scratched the surface of what will be an epic year! That is coupled with the fact that I have sub-catagorized my first purchase as an "indoor" purchase.  In that way "first"anticipates subsequent indoor lusty plant purchases and sets president for a myriad of sub-categorized multi plant purchasing mania!!! What are your 2013 first(s) plant purchases?

11 comments:

  1. Finger waiving doormen = boo!
    First plant purchases of 2013 = yay!
    Tillandsia xerographica = *sexy*
    Sub-categorized multi plant purchasing mania = you crack me up!

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    1. Don't you love the xerographica!!!! and the sub-categorization, soo necessary!!!! Don't you think?

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  2. Good job adn nice choice. But I'm about to up your ante! Must finish fixing up my landscape before spring sets in (& dry spring winds), and you know about my thing for plant massing...

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  3. That's a beauty, I love silver of all types and your collection of both is so cool.

    David the Desert Dweller (comment above) has recommended I purchase the A. neomexicana I saw today so I will be heading back there Thursday.

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    1. Yeah!!! I love agave neomexicana!!! I can't wait to see it! Adding a new agave to the collection is the perfect way to start out a plant hunting season!

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  4. I love your new Tillandsia. You've got me thinking...I think that Jungle Fever has quite a few of these hanging around. Maybe I need to go visit. Congratulations on your first plant purchase of the new year!

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    1. Thanks! You should visit indeed. I love surrounding myself wit beautiful plants. At this time of the year tending to things inside is also part of the coping mechanisms to get through the rest of winter. While the grey skies have returned for us, the nighttime lows are back into a much more comfortable range. Hopefully I can start bringing things back outside really soon!

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  5. The xerographica is beautiful! Bromeliads are under-utilized (even in my location), although that may be because they're so pricey. There's a nursery specializing in these plants nearby, which I stroll through occasionally - I can afford only their "special offers" as the more unusual plants are priced upwards of $100. For $100 last week I got 2 Hebes, 2 Correa, 1 Leucadendron, and 1 Chorizema 'Bush Flame'. I broke my cardinal rule about buying in 1-gallon sizes or smaller on the last one but I really couldn't pass it up.

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    1. Thanks! It's crazy that bromeliads would be so much there! We have a great place called Hawaiian botanicals that brings in all sorts of exotic bromeliads for really reasonable prices. So I guess I get spoiled that way. But it seems tillandsias are everywhere these days. It sounds like you got quite the haul of plants at your place. I do hope you post about them!!!

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  6. That looks so lovely...that bluey silver...MMMMMMMMmmmmm! First plant purchases....silver plants to plant en masse......silver waves....

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