plant snobs

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• To: m*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: plant snobs
• From: C* S* <C*@ucop.edu>
• Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:25:08 -0700

6/11/98
My plant "snobism" seems directly tied to what plants I grew up with -
those are the ones I consider "dead common" and are of less interest to me
than those "exotic" plants I've seen other places.
I grew up in Los Angeles and we had bird of paradise (the City Flower of
LA), equisetum, day lillies, acanthus, bermuda grass, eugenia, a jacaranda
tree, & hibiscus.  I was stunned one day to see bird of paradise blooms for
$3.50 for a single bloom in Philadelphia.  It's all a matter of what's
common where.  Conversely, I'd love to be able to grow peonies, which were
"dead common" in Philly - but have no luck to date.  

Some people go to Las Vegas to gamble, I garden.

Cheers,
Charlotte Strem
El Cerrito Farms 
(aka my backyeard)

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