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Green Thumb: The Mikado
Always on the lookout for house plants that grow well in condos, we found this spiky little number at Poppies on Queen West. The plant is called a Mikado–like Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta-emperor of Japan–or, less poetically, a bog…
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Green Thumb: Double Yellow Tulips!
Impelled by the stirrings of spring in our hearts, we made another visit to Peter Demarco of Demarco-Perpich on Queen Street West–in pursuit of some essential spring flowers. “How about these?” asked Peter, pointing to a bowl of…
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Green Thumb: Spring Blooms
We dropped in recently, on impulse, to see Peter Demarco of Demarci-Perpich on Queen West and were immediately engulfed by flowers of the most opulent sort–tulips and roses. At Demarco-Perpich, it was already both spring and high summer. First we encountered…
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Green Thumb: Eucalyptus
The eucalyptus, a member of the myrtle family, is a gift to busy condo dwellers because a) it looks great, given its severe architectural growth pattern and b) because it doesn’t need any care. We bought this solitary frond at…
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Green Thumb: The Pencil Cactus
We mention to Rebecca MacLachlin of Poppies that we’re looking for houseplants that are easily grown in condos and she leads us, enthusiastically, to a great, towering, spiky-green, indoor jungle of a plant called A Pencil Cactus. We…
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Green Thumb: Anemones
Walking into Demarco-Perpich on Queen street West is like walking straight into an impossibly opulent, floral still life painting by Edouard Manet. The day we were there, the doorway was almost blocked by a spectacular surge of soft…
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Green Thumb: the Air Plant
Growing houseplants in a condo—which, one supposes, would make them condoplants—is not as easy as all that for the simple reasons that a) condos are not known to be as tropically moist as greenhouses, and b) condo owners are busy…
