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At 03:29 AM 2/4/2012, Kyle Baker wrote:
>well the latest thing to cross my feebler mind is a need to grow >variegated philo's and the elusive Monstera deliciosa is one that >has teased me in both waking and unconscious thought...I've >searched....e-bay $45 for god knows what...glasshouseworks >$200...and I never was impressed with them..

When I was a child folks grew these things in their Brooklyn apartments, which were steam heated and did not have all that much light. these plants came from nurseries in nearby New Jersey like Roehrs and Mandas, and were sold in five and dime stores and local florist shops and some of them persisted for YEARS  in a charming juvenile state. Paul Hutchinson of Tropic World told me it was not worth his time to grow variegate Monstera because folks were always giving it to each other. I notice on eBay a great deal of advantage-taking of people who do not live where some plants can be bought locally for chump change, well, they are being offered for humongous sums of money, and as a one time mail order rare plant seller, it maketh my blood to boil.

ALSO i want to mention that even here in California where i have greenhouses, i have some favourite plants in the almost windowless kitchen, under a squiggly screw-in fluorescent light, because I WANT TO SEE THEM and they do just fine.

what are the hard-to-get plants being discussed here? I mean, if possible I can get them at the local Home Depot and mail them to you. Our local Home Depot is very rich in some plants which by mail order are exceedingly costly. one wonders from what magic source they come. and sometimes, one knows.

hermine

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