Plant Profiles

“Ears” at the top - very pronounced lobes, sitting high and perky - that flow down into a slimmer waistline and then pooch out near the end in a way that anyone would immediately recognize as the “booty” of the leaf. Let's talk about them.

Yesterday, while I was out and about picking up materials to build a trellis for a giant Monstera Deliciosa, I found an Alocasia Odora 'Batik.' So, in typical plant hoarding fashion, I brought it home. Obviously. I then compared it to the Alocasia macrorrhizos 'Dawn' - here's what I found.

The Bag You Can't Have (Probably) Season 4, Episode 11. Sex and the City . "It's not a bag, it's a Birkin." And even name-dropping Lucy Liu, Samantha can't get one. This waitlist is longer than my perimenopausal chin hairs, the price tag has five figures before you even consider tax, and they're genuinely not going to pick you — even if you could drop that kind of change. Really though. Is it even that cute? Nah. The Bag You Almost Bought (Possibly) Coach. A well-loved staple

Ladies and gentlemen of the plant world, the naysayers would have you believe all Philodendron Pink Princesses are bad, but when you look at the evidence - the REAL evidence - you'll find that every single charge traces back to not their failure, but to our own failed expectations. PPPs, beautiful, dark and brooding, were the "IT" plant not so very long ago...

The hype is everywhere, and I do mean EVERYWHERE. There are Burle Marx's Flames showing up on every plant site I visit. People raving over them, talking about fenestrations and height and plant maturity. Ooos and aaahs. Gag me with a spoon. I got one, because of course I did. I took it through the Soft Landing process all of my rescues go through, just to make sure it didn't have any bugs or whatnot. Can't be getting the fam-damly sick.

Everyone wants an Albo, but I’m currently "babysitting" ours. It’s the question I get most often, and the answer is usually: "Not yet." It's why she's listed on the site but with some heavy disclaimers.

Did you know the Philodendron joepii was discovered in the wild because a guy named Joep Moonen thought it looked like it had been eaten by bugs? It's one of the rarest-looking shapes in the plant world, so when I found a pot with two of them in it near Gainesville, I just had to have it.