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Showing posts with label african violets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label african violets. Show all posts
In my internet travels, I happened upon this African violet place. Now this is just weird. One of the world's premiere African violet growers is in Seriouslynowhereville, New York. Even though I'm not a huge African violet fan, I had to see for myself. I get all excited any time I find someone making a successful living with plants and I want to learn all about their operations so I can copy them and become a filthy rich flower farmer. Shut up, I'm trying to be realistic.
So yesterday we drove and drove into the rural hinterlands and found it. Have a gander:
Double tiers of violets filling two huge greenhouses.
Every variety imaginable, including this almost-albino one!
They start each plant with a leaf cutting from a mature violet.
They also have their private collection of orchids on display.
Stunning!
A few other houseplants were available, like this Rex Begonia.
And this one which is called 'holy shit!'
That jellyfish-looking thing is a hoya blossom!
Behind every beautiful thing there is some ugly to make it all happen.
'Frozen in time'- this one came home to live with me.
I was in heaven. The mister was in annoyedaboutthelongcarrideonahotday. He'll thank me later when we're rich flower barons. The staff was busy packing flowers to ship so I didn't bug them with thousands of questions, but I really wanted to know more about the how and why of this whole thing, so I did more internet travelling today and found the story of Lyndon Lyon on youtube. Please disregard the hokey music at the beginning of the video.
