Plant Nerds
We were hugely pleased to have Sean and Nathan from Cistus follow us home from the Fronderosa Frolic in Gold Bar Sunday and spend the night. They haven't been out to the nursery before so it was great fun poring over all the little obscure goodies that only a mother and a plant nerd could love and I have to say they didn't miss much. I also have to say that we always like it when folks show up at the nursery in a big U-Haul truck - it is so much more promising than when they ride in on bicycles.
Folks like those two are barometers for us on how we are doing growing and offering interesting and admittedly at times, esoteric flora. "Are they going to see anything new? And are they going to find it all interesting? Is there going to be anything we can send home with them or will it just be a pity plant?" These are thoughts I can't banish but they fairly quickly drove them away as they started making piles here and there. What joy to find someone other than Steve Hootman enthused about a Tupistra sp. from the Cangshan and pausing before the different Ephedra species. They went home with multiple dozens and were happily chumming plants of theirs at us from the back of the truck.
So we're doing ok it seems although I have to admit Sean couldn't keep his eyes off of our bare expanses of soil in our new unplanted display beds. It has been awhile since he has had that luxury at Cistus.
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