Comments on: If You Were a Plant … http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/ by Ivette Soler Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kerry Ann Moore http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-2151 Kerry Ann Moore Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:26:05 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-2151 Oh Ivette! I LOVE This concept. I ask myself the same question and have the same crazy internal conversations as I personify plants and compare my traits. I'm trolling your blog and having a blast. xoxo. Oh Ivette! I LOVE This concept. I ask myself the same question and have the same crazy internal conversations as I personify plants and compare my traits. I’m trolling your blog and having a blast. xoxo.

]]> By: Suasoria http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-2066 Suasoria Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:25:50 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-2066 I'm going a different route - an heirloom rose, not as fussy and high-maintenance as everyone thinks. Classic, hardy, yet somewhat showy. Climbing Cecile Brunner, maybe? I’m going a different route – an heirloom rose, not as fussy and high-maintenance as everyone thinks. Classic, hardy, yet somewhat showy. Climbing Cecile Brunner, maybe?

]]> By: Rebecca Sweet http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1968 Rebecca Sweet Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:46:03 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1968 What a great concept....and I love the plants you picked. Why am I not surprised that most of them are plants I'd pick for myself? Especially the Queen Vicky?? You and I are SO soul sisters!!! However, you have such a way with words....just amazing - really amazing. Thanks for a good morning laugh!! What a great concept….and I love the plants you picked. Why am I not surprised that most of them are plants I’d pick for myself? Especially the Queen Vicky?? You and I are SO soul sisters!!! However, you have such a way with words….just amazing – really amazing. Thanks for a good morning laugh!!

]]> By: Jean Prescott http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1828 Jean Prescott Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:03:47 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1828 Germi, dear Germi, have a wonderful holiday season, and keep posting! Germi, dear Germi, have a wonderful holiday season, and keep posting!

]]> By: Summer http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1809 Summer Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:35:48 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1809 No. I did mean selinecereus. No. I did mean selinecereus.

]]> By: Summer http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1808 Summer Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:33:41 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1808 I meant sellaginella. I meant sellaginella.

]]> By: Summer http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1807 Summer Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:31:28 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1807 LOL ESP I'm in kind of a bad mood right now so I probably shouldn't do this... LOL... OK maybe I need that sense of humor. I'll say Selinicereus. I'm not sure of the species exactly. Long, rangy and kind of funny-looking most of the time. I get dressed up maybe one night a year and people are suddenly astounded. I strike strangers as unfriendly but fairly harmless. That's only sort of true; I am harmless if left alone, but I have tiny thorns that sneak under your skin and will irritate the crap out you and I can be really difficult, especially if you want me to grow a certain, cultivated-looking way. I do my own damn thing. I'm not high-maintenance and don't like to be coddled, but I don't bloom readily, either. I'm not popular, but the people who do like me think I'm totally fabulous. I like to climb tree trunks and sometimes walls, and might look good in a hanging basket. LOL ESP

I’m in kind of a bad mood right now so I probably shouldn’t do this… LOL… OK maybe I need that sense of humor.

I’ll say Selinicereus. I’m not sure of the species exactly. Long, rangy and kind of funny-looking most of the time. I get dressed up maybe one night a year and people are suddenly astounded. I strike strangers as unfriendly but fairly harmless. That’s only sort of true; I am harmless if left alone, but I have tiny thorns that sneak under your skin and will irritate the crap out you and I can be really difficult, especially if you want me to grow a certain, cultivated-looking way. I do my own damn thing. I’m not high-maintenance and don’t like to be coddled, but I don’t bloom readily, either. I’m not popular, but the people who do like me think I’m totally fabulous. I like to climb tree trunks and sometimes walls, and might look good in a hanging basket.

]]> By: germinatrix http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1790 germinatrix Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:13:20 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1790 Loree, I'll be your Garden Therapist!!! Okay - I'm going to take a wild stab and give you a plant - what do you say to being Phormium 'Apricot Queen'? Of COURSE you'd need to be a plant of exquisite form, and Apricot Queen has the most beautiful leaves that start out upright and then curve gracefully at the tips - she should be sharp, but then she beautifully curves. The variegation brightens up the shadiest corner, and the unusual, bright blooms get better as time goes on - this is one plant that truly gets better the longer she sits in the ground! Since you are such a fabulous zone-pusher, you need to be a plant that is risky in Portland! So, even though I don't know you IRL, I'm taking the leap with Phormium 'Apricot Queen'! Or Agave potatorum (my new obsession!)? Joseph, I am glad you understand my powers. I use them only for good. And keep me posted on your A. parryi's overwintering! I'll keep my fingers crossed, too! Chanchow! I LOVE that you are a citrus!!! How about my favorite - a Eureka Lemon? Slow, steady, a little sour - but a MUST in every So Cal garden and kitchen!!! And one can't forget the amazing sweet that goes along with that lovely sour - the intoxicating scent of the blossoms! Yes - EUREKA!!! Oh, ESP - Amorphophallus INDEED!!! (it always amazes me that whenever the one at the Huntington blooms, they trot it out in its container - a white painters BUCKET!!! Such an impressive specimen - A BUCKET!!! but I digress...) Leave it to YOU to choose the most uncanny, the oddest, the STRANGEST plant ever known!!! Welwitschia!!! You have CONFOUNDED me - ME, whose powers of horticultural anthropormorphic divination are almost legendary! Here's my take : You are indeed a loner, but people come looking for you, because you can't help but entice! One step into your world, and the landscape around you becomes surreal; you are a mediator between this mundane world and the world you, the Welwitschia hints of - a surreal, clock-melting wonderland hiding in between the grains of sand underneath the pile of odd starfish leaves. You SHOULD live for two thousand years!!! Starting now! XO! Loree, I’ll be your Garden Therapist!!! Okay – I’m going to take a wild stab and give you a plant – what do you say to being Phormium ‘Apricot Queen’?
Of COURSE you’d need to be a plant of exquisite form, and Apricot Queen has the most beautiful leaves that start out upright and then curve gracefully at the tips – she should be sharp, but then she beautifully curves. The variegation brightens up the shadiest corner, and the unusual, bright blooms get better as time goes on – this is one plant that truly gets better the longer she sits in the ground!
Since you are such a fabulous zone-pusher, you need to be a plant that is risky in Portland! So, even though I don’t know you IRL, I’m taking the leap with Phormium ‘Apricot Queen’!
Or Agave potatorum (my new obsession!)?

Joseph, I am glad you understand my powers. I use them only for good. And keep me posted on your A. parryi’s overwintering! I’ll keep my fingers crossed, too!

Chanchow! I LOVE that you are a citrus!!! How about my favorite – a Eureka Lemon? Slow, steady, a little sour – but a MUST in every So Cal garden and kitchen!!! And one can’t forget the amazing sweet that goes along with that lovely sour – the intoxicating scent of the blossoms! Yes – EUREKA!!!

Oh, ESP – Amorphophallus INDEED!!!
(it always amazes me that whenever the one at the Huntington blooms, they trot it out in its container – a white painters BUCKET!!! Such an impressive specimen – A BUCKET!!! but I digress…)
Leave it to YOU to choose the most uncanny, the oddest, the STRANGEST plant ever known!!! Welwitschia!!! You have CONFOUNDED me – ME, whose powers of horticultural anthropormorphic divination are almost legendary!
Here’s my take :
You are indeed a loner, but people come looking for you, because you can’t help but entice! One step into your world, and the landscape around you becomes surreal; you are a mediator between this mundane world and the world you, the Welwitschia hints of – a surreal, clock-melting wonderland hiding in between the grains of sand underneath the pile of odd starfish leaves.
You SHOULD live for two thousand years!!! Starting now!
XO!

]]> By: ESP http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1771 ESP Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:57:42 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1771 amorphophallus titanum? KIDDING! (Everyone is one of those at some point after all, aren't they)? Mmmm...Good question Queen Vicky, what type of plant?...Mmmm... I would have to go with the succulent welwitschia mirabilis. http://www.conifers.org/we/welwitschia5.jpg I don't like to be disturbed. It is a loner, it grows in the middle of nowhere. It looks like there is a lot to it, but really most of these heaps actually consist of only two leaves, wait, I am not saying I am a heap or anything,... oh never mind. It looks like it would be as happy under the oceans as it does in the desert...(err...I have gills on my neck)? Oh and did I mention, I want to live for one or two thousand years, preferably in a nice, quite abode in the middle of the many unexploded landmines in Angola (for my own protection and solitude). Oh I am terrible at this, I was in school! I am going now... ESP :-) amorphophallus titanum?

KIDDING!
(Everyone is one of those at some point after all, aren’t they)?

Mmmm…Good question Queen Vicky, what type of plant?…Mmmm…
I would have to go with the succulent welwitschia mirabilis.

http://www.conifers.org/we/welwitschia5.jpg

I don’t like to be disturbed. It is a loner, it grows in the middle of nowhere. It looks like there is a lot to it, but really most of these heaps actually consist of only two leaves, wait, I am not saying I am a heap or anything,… oh never mind. It looks like it would be as happy under the oceans as it does in the desert…(err…I have gills on my neck)?

Oh and did I mention, I want to live for one or two thousand years, preferably in a nice, quite abode in the middle of the many unexploded landmines in Angola (for my own protection and solitude).

Oh I am terrible at this, I was in school!

I am going now…

ESP :-)

]]> By: chanchow http://thegerminatrix.com/2009/12/01/if-you-were-a-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1760 chanchow Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:03:57 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=677#comment-1760 I wish I were a beauty queen like your agave desmettiana variegata. I think I'm more of a citrus tree-- slow and steady and a little sour. I wish I were a beauty queen like your agave desmettiana variegata. I think I’m more of a citrus tree– slow and steady and a little sour.

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