Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Glasshouse Works - I don't know if this would work or not.., 0 by crazy4vines

crazy4vines wrote:
Ok..I'm back .. I gotta figure out how I feel about this whole thing.. very mixed emotions..so this post may be choppy lol

First off .. my friend went with me and she was "on call" to work at the mall.. she called and they told her they wouldn't need her...that was good, so we thought ..

I don't know exactly what I was expecting and I think I got my hopes too high ..I think I was expecting to walk into several green houses with rows and rows of tables and look at what I wanted..it wasn't anyting like that..

They had a small building and gardens out back of it.. tables with succulents .. tables with EE this and that everywhere but no "order" to it.. I mean, at least not for me...I am SURE it would have helped to have someone with me who knows way more than I do .. I took a list with me though of exactly what I wanted and was looking for.

I found someone to talk to and she took me to the 2 green houses where the succulents/cacti/tropicals were located and showed me the "boundries" of where I could go ..

She pointed out 3 other houses around the corner and said they had gardens at all those houses I could walk through as well, which I thought was pretty cool.

Then she pointed out the "shipping house"..said that is where most of their stuff was but even she wasn't allowed in there because of fungus being brought it and things..I understood that..she said she'd go find the owner and he'd come help me...

He eventually came to talk to me and WOW what a help he was.. in the mean time (remember my friend?) well, her work called and said she had to come in.. that really stopped my visit short..I was probably only there about 25 minutes and needed way more time than that...(it took 2 hours to get there lol)

I showed the owner my list and like I said he was SO helpful.. I told him I was mainly looking for swiss cheese philo, pink princess philo, staghorn fern, hoyas, and Ceropegia. He had all of those.

He told me that someone should have told me on the phone that most of those things are in the shipping house and not out to be looked at. He said he could pull them out but it was too hot to go in there right then. (although someone went in and got a couple things anyway)

I gave him my list and he said if I would come back next Friday and give him at least an hour, he would have all my things pulled. He also said he would find me 3 "rarer" hoyas and go ahead and have them rooting for me when I came back .

I then asked him about the mother of thousands "pink teeth".. they do not have them ready to be picked up.. when someone orders them, the start a plant for them.. even by next week, he doubts it would be ready to go but I told him I wanted it anyway...he said that they require much more light and are harder to take care of and many people are killing them and then complaining so they only make starts when one is ordered and they explain to them it really needs to be in bright light or a green house.

So..all in all.... I was disappointed a little..then again, I didn't get to spend much time there..and even less time once the owner came and started talking to me...again, he was WONDERFUL ... if I would have had someone with me who knew a lot about plants, I am sure they would have recognized a lot more than me...I think I was just a little overwhelmed in the green house because things weren't marked and I didn't know what they were..

They DO have a ton of stuff..wow ... I guess a lot of it just isn't available to the public to see... they had GORGEOUS pink princess philos..

Their prices are a little cheaper in person too ...I have quite a few pictures that I'll show you...

I'm still going back next Friday though and I plan to spend a lot more time.. it was REALLY nice to see some flowers and plants for the first time that I had only seen on the Internet ..there is no place around here that I can see these in person ..and I did see my first real hoya bloom YAY

ok .. So here's my first picture

Euphorbia Obesa ..it was the only "round" one there..the others looked oblong

On the UPSIDE.. I didn't walk out empty handed LOL ...