Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Hammer + Vine

During my quick stop at the Home & Garden Show a couple weeks back you might recall I discovered a new-to-me shop, Hammer + Vine. I recently visited their retail location...

Their spot reminds me a lot of the places I used to frequent when I lived in Seattle and didn't have a car. Small urban locations, many times tucked into unexpected spaces and without parking lots.

I didn't get a chance to ask how long they've been here, but the shop certainly is nicely designed and full of treasures.

***swoon***

These windows look out on a light well, the shop is in the basement of an old brick apartment building. The mister in the corner is keeping air nice and moist.

These are happy plants!

Yikes, I cut off the label on this one, Drosera spatulata (spoon-leaved sundew)

Look at the size of that tillandsia!

And that one...

This was my favorite, sadly it was not for sale...



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21 comments:

  1. Fun shop! I HEART that crazy ginseng-root-style hanging plant with all the skinny green arms - the one next to the hanging fern. Do you think it's a tillandsia? Nice selection of carnivores, too.

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    1. Yep it is a tillandsia, T. bulbosa. Or more correctly I think it's three of them mounted together.

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  2. I drove by this shop after you mentioned it last time, but that no parking thing threw me for a loop. Next time I will be more persistent. The display niches in the wall are a nice touch. It looks quite a bit bigger than it seemed. Is it on two floors, main and basement?

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    1. I circled around the block and found easy parking on the side street, although it was a test of my parallel parking on an incline skills! It's just a single floor. I called it a basement but I suppose more correctly it's the main floor. The fact the building cut back into the hill had me feeling all basementy....

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  3. Lots of interesting merchandise here! Glad you did a follow-up visit as it certainly didn't disappoint. A few months or years ago, you posted a picture of your Tillandsia xerographica inside a cage like structure. Is it still alive? Just curious as I got one at the Seattle show and am wondering if it'll be around for a while.

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    1. I love that you said "a few months or years ago"...they do start to all run together don't they? The first xerographica I bought (several years ago) bloomed and died. I bought another last spring which is doing fabulous and grown a lot, then I bought one for my mom for Christmas but before I gave it to her I realized the bottom (where the leaves connect) didn't look good, very brown. So I bought another for her and kept the questionable one, pealing off the browned leaves. It's doing quite well and I think will be even happier after a summer vacation on the patio...

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  4. We could easily spend an hour or so in this store, and go home with choice goodies! Love the size, shapes, and forms of those particular tillandsias, very decorative!

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    1. It was fun to see some new tillandsia shapes, the usual suspects are everywhere these days!

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  5. What a fun store! Cool to see some carnivores out with all the rest – and well-grown too, it looks like.

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    1. Looks like you've got quite the collection Devon!

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  6. What a cool shop! I've been curious about this one ever since you posted about it, in fact I almost stopped in on my way home from the YGP show, but with the rain coming down we decided just to go straight back home. So thanks so much for showing us your pics from your visit.

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    1. Glad to be your shopping surrogate Alison!

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  7. My kind of place!! But I avoid carnivorous plants in case I forget to feed them and they decide to seek revenge.

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  8. It's a cool shop and I'm glad you followed up from the show. Fun to see all their displays. The Morea grass is on my list if I ever find one for sale. Those curly leaves are irresistible!

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    1. Morea grass? I'm not sure what that is??

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  9. I would have snapped up that swoon-worthy bromeliad so fast there would have been a cartoon-like smokey after-image! Did you notice the price on it?

    I love the tillandsias, especially the T. funckiana (above your favorite). That species looks like some strange mythical reptilian creature to me, like a Hydra or sea serpent. The cluster of T. bulbosa is probably a single plant that bloomed and produced pups before it died. T. bulbosa is a great clumper, producing massive tangles of pups.

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    1. If I remember correctly, and there is every possibility that I don't, $29.99 for the bromeliad. I wish my T. bulbosas would stick around long enough to clump. They are the hardest tilandsia to keep happy (in my experience).

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  10. Are those artificial bird skulls below the blue moose head? Creepy.

    The sundew image reminds me that I should expand my carnivorous plant collection (it contains just one plant right now). I should get a couple of Tillandsia too...

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    1. Yes you should...perhaps there is a stop here in order when you're in Portland this summer!

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  11. Hi! Thanks for swinging by our store and taking some great photos!

    We really like bromeliads! I'll probably up the stock at the store with a ton of mini neoregelias in a couple months. We always have a large selection of Tillandsia and I'm currently propagating a nice selection of neoregelia and a couple billbergia,vresia and cryptanthus as well at home.

    I also usually try to keep a nice selection of mini mounted orchids and jewel orchids however we have been low for the past couple weeks.

    As far as the carnivores go I usually have a decent selection on hand (except in winter when I move the temperate ones outside) and I have a few rarer (expensive) ones at home that I can bring in for special requests (heliamphora, brocchinia and cephalotus.)

    My next project is going to be trying to grow some miracle berries (Synsepalum dulcificum)to carry at the store.

    I'm always happy to take requests for special tropical plants, if we don't have it I enjoy hunting for it.

    Also, we have a booth at the Skidmore Saturday Market where we sell tillandsia and little glass hangers and terrarium pendants that I make. If you ever go to Saturday Market please come stop by and say "Hi"

    Did you see the poison dart frogs in our front counter display? I also had a single tank at the home and garden show that had two different morphs of dart frogs that I don't have at the store.

    Thanks again for swinging by! One of my coworkers from my "real" job at Providence loves your blog and was thrilled to tell us that you mentioned us. We're thrilled too!

    Best Regards,
    Devin Mense
    hammer + vine
    Curious Garden

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