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Random plant event: Columnea 'Light Prince'...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - I got this last May, from a reader, as unrooted (I think?) cuttings. One cutting didn't make it, but the others rooted fine, and then at the beginning of January, I noticed a couple flower buds forming. It's not a cascade of hundreds of flowers ...
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Et tu, Kew?...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - Are the "Zantedeschias" featured in this post at Talking Plants actually dyed Anthuriums? [Yes. The post has since been corrected to Anthurium. -Mr. S.] And shouldn't the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens know the difference? And why is Kew dying/painti...
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Plant-Related Drag Queen Names...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - In honor of the beginning of the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race (viewable on-line at the LogoTV.com website1), and because after watching the first episode I had trouble getting to sleep because I kept thinking of drag names, here's a list ...
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Unfinished business: fictional botany...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - Sadly, I've gotten out of the habit of writing fictional botany posts -- the last was posted in July 2010 -- even though I enjoyed doing them. After the one in July 2010, I started another, and had a pretty clear image of the plant in my mind, b...
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Pretty (?) picture: Aristolochia gigantea...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - I had planned to do an orchid post today, but it got really complicated, and took off on several tangents: the meaning of the word "natural," hybridization, my best guess as to the identity of the dye Silver Vase is injecting into their orchids ...
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Elsewhere on the Web: Did We Win Already?...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - Greenhouse Grower has a couple articles up about the blue-dyed Phalaenopsis phenomenon, both of which contain some interesting quotes. In the first, from January 6, Marcella Lucio, the marketing director of Silver Vase (who produce the 'Blue Mys...
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List: PATSP All-Stars...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - "All-Stars" are those plants for which:1) I have had at least one specimen, continuously, for at least three years,2) which is still living,3) and looks as good as, or better than, it did when first acquired, plus:4) no specimen has ever had spi...
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Pretty picture: Phragmipedium Sergeant Eric 'Timberl...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - And yet another case of a mis-tagged plant: the tag on this one was Phrag. Eric Sargeant 'Timberlane,' not Phrag. Sergeant Eric 'Timberlane.' So not only a misspelling, but also a word transposition as well.There's also a lot of confusion regard...
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