Tropicals & Tender Perennials: At what point are you an addict?, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Go to college, be a horticulturist, (or a marine biologist) move to Florida, (Louisiana, Texas, Hawaii) so you'll have tons of opportunities for jobs in the plant/marine industry. Better yet, go to school somewhere warm! Work in a nursery while you go to school. They'll give you a discount, maybe??

Feed your lifetime habit.

Franco, at 17 if you have great interests like fish and plants, you are SO far ahead of a lot of people your age who blindly head to college with no idea of what they want to do.

Bet the air in your house is the cleanest in NJ all winter, too.

As to your expensive tastes in plants, I'd advise you to buy smaller and grow them more. You are paying a lot for other people's work to make things like standards. You can do this yourself and have a lot of fun in the process. Once they're full grown and carefully trained like that they are a lot of work to keep them looking good, too.

eg. Here's a picture of my huge agapanthus plant that I started a few years ago from a gallon size pot that cost $7.95. You'd pay $150 in a nursery here for this.