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Naff or chic?
"Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "David in Normandy" wrote in message ... The Mrs spotted some unusual house plants in the garden centre the other day. Small bushy green plants a bit like box, but with small yellow flowers at the tips. Another, similar variety had orange flowers. On closer inspection all these flowers had been stuck on with glue!!! The plants were real enough, just the flowers were plastic. Surely there is a wide enough range of attractive house plants without buying such monstrosities? Or am I being old fashioned? Each plant was covered in flowers - to think that someone must have sat for ages gluing them all on. -- David in Normandy I've seen cactus plants like that. Definitely naff. One can only assume that these things were imported from some third-world country where they pay people a pittance to glue flowers onto live plants. Naff. I recently bought from a garden centre a cheap remaindered Tillandsia in a small pot. But the pot was packed with Spanish moss *dyed pink*. I am trying to keep both the Tillandsia and the Spanish moss alive, but I don't know if the Spanish moss will survive the dye. someone |
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Naff or chic?
On 13/1/08 20:02, in article ,
"someone" wrote: "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "David in Normandy" wrote in message ... The Mrs spotted some unusual house plants in the garden centre the other day. Small bushy green plants a bit like box, but with small yellow flowers at the tips. Another, similar variety had orange flowers. On closer inspection all these flowers had been stuck on with glue!!! The plants were real enough, just the flowers were plastic. Surely there is a wide enough range of attractive house plants without buying such monstrosities? Or am I being old fashioned? Each plant was covered in flowers - to think that someone must have sat for ages gluing them all on. -- David in Normandy I've seen cactus plants like that. Definitely naff. One can only assume that these things were imported from some third-world country where they pay people a pittance to glue flowers onto live plants. Naff. I recently bought from a garden centre a cheap remaindered Tillandsia in a small pot. But the pot was packed with Spanish moss *dyed pink*. I am trying to keep both the Tillandsia and the Spanish moss alive, but I don't know if the Spanish moss will survive the dye. someone Dunk it in water and see if the dye will wash off? Run water over it in a colander and ditto? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Naff or chic?
"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 13/1/08 20:02, in article , "someone" wrote: "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "David in Normandy" wrote in message ... The Mrs spotted some unusual house plants in the garden centre the other day. Small bushy green plants a bit like box, but with small yellow flowers at the tips. Another, similar variety had orange flowers. On closer inspection all these flowers had been stuck on with glue!!! The plants were real enough, just the flowers were plastic. Surely there is a wide enough range of attractive house plants without buying such monstrosities? Or am I being old fashioned? Each plant was covered in flowers - to think that someone must have sat for ages gluing them all on. -- David in Normandy I've seen cactus plants like that. Definitely naff. One can only assume that these things were imported from some third-world country where they pay people a pittance to glue flowers onto live plants. Naff. I recently bought from a garden centre a cheap remaindered Tillandsia in a small pot. But the pot was packed with Spanish moss *dyed pink*. I am trying to keep both the Tillandsia and the Spanish moss alive, but I don't know if the Spanish moss will survive the dye. someone Dunk it in water and see if the dye will wash off? Run water over it in a colander and ditto? Thanks, I hadn't thought of that, I'll try it and see what happens. Just the idea of a "remaindered Tillandsia" offends me, so I had to buy it. someone |
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On 13/1/08 22:56, in article ,
"someone" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 13/1/08 20:02, in article , "someone" wrote: "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "David in Normandy" wrote in message ... The Mrs spotted some unusual house plants in the garden centre the other day. Small bushy green plants a bit like box, but with small yellow flowers at the tips. Another, similar variety had orange flowers. On closer inspection all these flowers had been stuck on with glue!!! The plants were real enough, just the flowers were plastic. Surely there is a wide enough range of attractive house plants without buying such monstrosities? Or am I being old fashioned? Each plant was covered in flowers - to think that someone must have sat for ages gluing them all on. -- David in Normandy I've seen cactus plants like that. Definitely naff. One can only assume that these things were imported from some third-world country where they pay people a pittance to glue flowers onto live plants. Naff. I recently bought from a garden centre a cheap remaindered Tillandsia in a small pot. But the pot was packed with Spanish moss *dyed pink*. I am trying to keep both the Tillandsia and the Spanish moss alive, but I don't know if the Spanish moss will survive the dye. someone Dunk it in water and see if the dye will wash off? Run water over it in a colander and ditto? Thanks, I hadn't thought of that, I'll try it and see what happens. Just the idea of a "remaindered Tillandsia" offends me, so I had to buy it. someone I'm in sympathy - I'm always trying to set up plant hospitals but it doesn't go down too well here. ;-)) I've seen Spanish moss in packets in a florist's wholesaler that I use, un-dyed, of course. I wonder if you could buy some to replace the dyed stuff if the dunking doesn't work? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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