Archive for the ‘Green Thumb’ Category
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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…
