Air Plant

I got a plant in the mail recently.   Yes, a live, living plant.

It was a gift from the Los Angeles nursery Rolling Greens.   If you're ever in the Los Angeles area, a visit to Rolling Green would turn even the biggest brown thumb into an aspiring green thumb.   It's so lush and mindblowing with the vast array of plants in all of their greenhouses.

But this plant arrangement is something totally different: an air plant.    It's a piece of driftwood with arid-loving plants embedded inside.   A black metal chain is screwed into the middle for easy hanging.

Here, I hung the air plant in my shower.   The directions say to mist it every week or so to keep it alive.  I figure the mist from the shower will be enough to keep it watered.   The directions also say the plant will live on nutrients from the air, too.

So, for anyone who really has a brown thumb, this air plant might be the trick to keeping plants alive at home.

And speaking of plants, I got this Magnolia tree at my home the other day.  What a surprise!  It was a birthday gift from my agent in Los Angeles.    Her name is Maggie... so I bet she figured MAGNOLIA would remind me of her!   I can't wait to plant it in my yard!

Comments

[Dave P.]

Hi Danny,

Terrific blog, and I've just subscribed to your RSS feed. Kermit used to say "it ain't easy bein' green", but thanks to folks like you, I'm getting there!

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Thanks very much, and stay green!

Dave P.

[green your apartment]

Love this! And having a plant in the shower is strangely appealing...

Mentioned your new mattress on my blog today - it's quite well priced compared to what I've seen. Congrats!

[Margaret Ippolito]

What what a beautiful magnolia!! Do you have any tips for us on planting trees? Antyhing cool that we could do with magnolia blossoms, like make a linen spray?

[Leslie @ the oko box]

I love air plants, and I dont have any - now I am inspired to get some :) They look so cool floating on the driftwood in the "air" ;)

[trevor]

wow - you have the coolest agent! mine never did anything like this for me!

btw, are magnolias edible?

[Elizabeth]

an arid-loving plant in the shower?