Thursday, January 19, 2012

Fresh PICK now only $78

I scanned this catalogue page because I was just so darn excited to see such a knarly mass of Agaves complete with a bloom spike. I also liked how the words “Fresh PICK now only $78” appear right next to the bloom stalk, looking like perhaps you could purchase the agave for $78. Can you imagine shipping such a bear?
Do you get excited when you see a favorite, or especially good looking, plant in a catalogue, or perhaps a television show or movie? Like this page it’s often just hanging out in the background, not the focus of whatever is being shown, only a prop, but it catches your attention just the same.

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  1. Also makes me realize how incredibly cheap plants are. When a catalog lists a plant for $78, they often feel the need to justify the cost with explanations about how difficult to propagate or rare it is... and yet, a silly, entirely uninteresting jacket is "only" $78...

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    1. Most excellent point. However it would be a lot easier to justify a $78 jacket (be it uninteresting) to the husband than a $78 plant.

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  2. Funny, I saw that in my catalog too, and I even looked to see if the company credited the location for the shoot! Sometimes they do, and I thought it looked a bit like the area around Morro Bay in California. But no credit given for this one.

    The raincoat is okay, but it was definitely the agave that first caught my eye!

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    1. Oh yes I should have mentioned in my reply to Joseph above that there is NO WAY that I would pay $78 for this jacket...is indeed is only "okay"

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  3. Do you get excited when you see a favorite, or especially good looking, plant in a catalogue, or perhaps a television show or movie?

    Oh sure. The husband has (I think) become inured to the occasional shouts of Schefflera! / Dracaena! / Fake!

    I sort of can't help it.

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    1. "I sort of can't help it"...and we would expect nothing less from you!

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  4. Guilty of yelling at the TV, and I also love looking at catalog photo shoot locations. The people who design those things know exactly what they're doing oftentimes, and when plants become involved, it is really interesting. Last year there was a special Dianthus that everyone obsessed about in the florists trade and I saw it in the most strange places—and coolest catalogs. Glad to know I'm not the only one...

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    1. I must be behind the times because I am still obsessing about that Dianthus!

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  5. Too funny! Just last night, as I was watching Modern Family on TV, I was so entranced by the beautiful Agave attenuatas in Jay and Gloria's garden that I missed chunks of dialog!

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    1. I'm glad to hear that one of my fav's is on one of the (from what I hear) best TV shows!

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  6. Very lush, green backgrounds like bamboo and tropicals are more likely to catch my eye since it looks different.

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    1. Oh very good point! Where as green lush backgrounds to me are just the norm.

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    2. I'm beginning to see our plants differently though. On my way through an older neighborhood this week I wondered where all the agaves came from and then realized they had always been there!

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  7. I was at a movie once with a friend who was obsessed with finding variegated sports in plants and at one point he grabbed my arm during a scene where the actors were in a garden courtyard and said "Did you see that variegated Kerria?!"

    I mostly hate in scifi type shows where they try to take somewhat exotic looking (to the non horticulturist) tropicals and pass them off as alien plant life. Or when things are blooming out of season or obviously fake (wisteria is very commonly used in this way and it always looks idiotic).

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    1. So did you see it?

      I did see an entire twitter thread the other day about plants blooming out of season in the movies. I wonder how many people notice?

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  8. Absolutely I do!!! Whenever I watch Ellen she has pots and pots of succulents overflowing behind her! Amazing displays!

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  9. We don't have Agave growing outside in the UK so I have never seen one in flower. Wow lovely. Now I know what they look like. Would love one but would never fit it indoors over winter.

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    1. They aren't all this big! There are several that would be perfectly happy in a small container that you could bring inside for the winter. This one for example: http://plantlust.com/plants/agave-kissho-kan/

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