Ebay

I read a post here about plants on ebay...couldn't imagine! So I took a look. They are selling air ferns that I pay to get rid of in my oaks! I think I should start cutting my resurrection ferns up in small pieces and selling them...could make a flashy card to staple it to with directions to soak in water and voila! Magic! A fern! I've seen it all now...air ferns on ebay and they're selling! Gives new meaning to "One man's junk is another man's treasure!"

I searched through Ebay and couldn't find the air ferns for sale. I buy and sell on Ebay sometimes and was curious. Where are they? I must admit I have seen lots of weird stuff on there at times.

They were under houseplant category...quite a few were listed...perhaps the time has expired...keep looking!

i bought 2 last yr for my sis n friend and they luv them-NO care involved!

My dad would buy poop , if it was packaged just right!

Dale - I don't even know what an air fern is... never seen one. I guess I might even buy one if I thought it was interesting. Just to show ya ~ what's a weed for you could be a genuine treasure in another part of the country. If you have the time to list auctions and ship the items... you can make a good deal of money on ebay. There are lots of people that make a living off it. Sometimes it crazy what people will pay for.

Poppy...don't buy one...I'll send you a box full! And as far as weeds...this is really crazy! I was in NC a few years ago in Spring and saw dandelions blooming. We don't have them here in Florida. All the years as a child digging dandelions in the yard for punishment and guess what? I dug one up, brought it home and planted it in a pot. It didn't survive...probably to the neighborhood's relief! The air ferns are titlandia? Or something like that...in the orchid family perhaps or bromilead? There are little ones and then huge ones. In the Everglads it si against the law to take them.

Ha! Kinda like Lisa just reached down in the bayou last spring and grabbed a couple of water hyacinths for me. They're noxious weeds there in Louisiana, but up here we pond gardeners pay good money for even small starts of them at the beginning of the year. Of course, once everyones' ponds are full of the rapidly-multiplying stuff, we're all offering friends bagfuls! Someone on eBay was selling duckweed at a good price last summer, and doing well it seemed. You're so right!

ooops! Forgot to add my link...case in point.... http://www.piggypoop.com

Many zoos sell zoo poo for fertilizer to raise money...

Tillandsia is the name of what they were selling...here's a link about them...http://www.cassiakeyensis.com/sofl_plants/brom_index.html#Tillandsia

DaleP6, one of the best parts of the circus coming to Austin is the elephant poop you can haul away free for your gardens. A man there has made quite a name for his special mixture he calls dillo dirt, after the armadillo, and someone told me it started when he hauled away several tons of the poop and used it in his mixture. Every spring, I am surrounded by acres of gaillardia, monarda and numerous other wildflowers, and a business in the hill country has grown to mammoth proportions selling the seeds for these beauties. A man named Carroll Abbott pioneered this work almost 40 years ago, sending flower heads stuffed into envelopes to anyone who sent him a dollar. He wanted to save Texas wildflowers from urban sprawl, so he didn't make a lot of money, but now Wildseed Farms makes money and insures that our flora will persevere. I am thinking I need to package up the tassajillo here and send it out in 2" pieces, 3/$1.00. My sister wants some, and there must be others. I can make a profit and everyone can enjoy this little beast. Might have to get on Ebay after all!

tassajillo ???

A very invasive form of cactus that grows here, Opuntia leptocaulis. I mispelled it, it's actually tasajillo. A piece less than a half inch will root and make a new plant, and seeds from the red fruits are carried everywhere to take over large areas. It grows to about 5' tall, has small pale yellow-green flowers in May and June.