Taking a break from our Saturday in Portland posts to bring you this late breaking news of an atrocity perpetrated upon some green life with which we share the planet:
On Wednesday evening, while strolling through a Fred Meyer Store, (regional grocery/hardware/garden center/clothing/housewares/little-bit-of-everything-but-not-really-a- department-store chain) looking for a few begonia tubers for my begonia experiment (more on this in later posts,) something very red caught my eye from the distant shelves of house plants. What new and unusual variety of plant could be such a color? Forgive the images, I only had my phone with me, they "upgraded" an app or something and I have to re learn how to turn off the flash. Anyway, they're even more red in real life.
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But wait, there's more -
This is closest to the true color of this one. I've unsaturated the next images to spare your eyes the pain.
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The bad news is that they seem to be planted directly into 4" glass cubes which are totally free of drain holes which means that if one is not extremely careful with the watering can, they'll die in fairly short order. Wait, should I save this for an In a Vase on Monday post?
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In other good news, it seems that the pigment seems to come off fairly easily and doesn't hurt the plant. I'm not a fan but a designer will probably come up with something brilliant using something like this and start a new fad. Really, how much longer can tillandsias and (unpainted) succulents ride their wave of popularity?
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If this is the future, please God, take me now! Now that you've heard my totally neutral, unbiased reportage, what do you think of these?
On Wednesday evening, while strolling through a Fred Meyer Store, (regional grocery/hardware/garden center/clothing/housewares/little-bit-of-everything-but-not-really-a- department-store chain) looking for a few begonia tubers for my begonia experiment (more on this in later posts,) something very red caught my eye from the distant shelves of house plants. What new and unusual variety of plant could be such a color? Forgive the images, I only had my phone with me, they "upgraded" an app or something and I have to re learn how to turn off the flash. Anyway, they're even more red in real life.
But wait, there's more -
This is closest to the true color of this one. I've unsaturated the next images to spare your eyes the pain.
The good news is that if you like these, they're marked down from $12.99 to $6.50.
The bad news is that they seem to be planted directly into 4" glass cubes which are totally free of drain holes which means that if one is not extremely careful with the watering can, they'll die in fairly short order. Wait, should I save this for an In a Vase on Monday post?
In a way I feel sorry for them, not six fifty apiece sorry but sorry.
In other good news, it seems that the pigment seems to come off fairly easily and doesn't hurt the plant. I'm not a fan but a designer will probably come up with something brilliant using something like this and start a new fad. Really, how much longer can tillandsias and (unpainted) succulents ride their wave of popularity?
