all I think about are plants

so much to tell regarding the plant life.

today I went to annie's annuals in richmond. they are having a "spring fling" next weekend but it gets so crowded and considering there is no discount there is coinicidentally no need to succumb to the irritiation of massed persons. I did get some interesting items today; a red lupine, a cup and saucer vine to cover our unsightly fence, this plant that I buy every year because it smells like HEAVEN (cotton candy) in the evening, a couple of lovely poppies and oli picked out a couple plants for herself. just like the last time I was there the thing I wanted the most was not availible which is quite annoying. this year it is a member of the protea family that is truly the most divine plant I have seen in a long time. I asked lebasi to write down the name so we could find it on the web, I'd tell you what it is but all I remember is that it starts with "s". it was amazing, I am telepathically downloading the image. I know, a vision to behold.

then we were off to longs. I love longs but not as much as I used to. and imagine my shock when I found out that annie's annuals are CHEAPER at longs. the annuals are a fucking $0.75 less and the perennials are $0.26 less. I already carried displeasure at not being able to get the one plant at a2 that I would have liked and now this! it was just too much. I mean really, does that make any sense? anyway, longs didn't have anything interesting. I bought a red cordyline which was $9, five less than they sell it for a the hort. I mean no ill to the hort, btw. I loooooove the hort with almost all my heart.

the home depot. the portion of my heart not taken up with the hort tenderizes at the thought. that place has been awesome this year! they have gigantic pigmy date palms for $50. and I mean gigantic. I bought a hearty specimin of a fish tail palm for $40. at longs a spindly version was selling for $37, hd's was about four times as large for $3 less. they had large smoke bushes for $22, ten gallon king palms for $19, lovely mounted staghorn ferns for $20-25 and of course a very large selection of bullshit. but for the aforementioned prices, who cares?! I also had business inside and was helped by a very nice, very attractive fella.