@@myconfusedmerriment this statement is true, i bought a lavender for 1R$ (0.18 dollars for measurement) and its so pretty today, thriving as never before
I can attest to moths' thirst for chaos as they've ruined my life at least 3 times now. They ransacked my gluten free baking flours in the pantry THROUGH THE BAGS, their caterpillars attacked my baby salad greens outside, then they ravaged my nocturnal moonflower. Once, I felt a tickle at my heart center during meditation; looked down, a moth flew out of my sports bra. Complete menaces.
I Used to buy expensive plants based on my own budget (which was small). After growing them together with other chep plants, I can confirm that there is no differences of happiness between growing expensive plants and cheap plants. So now I stop buying expensive plants. Only cheap plants and I am still so happy.
There's definitely some more expensive plants I am obsessed with but there's also some 5$ plants I'm obsessed with and I always try to get the baby versions of the expensive plants I love. My love for plants depends almost entirely on if the look of the plant appeals to me but some other factors are interest in growth pattern/ leaf shapes and veinstions, cool variegation patterns and honestly, I do find it super fun if you can manage to snag a "rare" plant but even then I'm only gonna get it if I can get a good deal on it. I literally got a Billietiae for $4.50 CAD and I'm JACKED about it. I think if you love a plant, get it. If you want it because other people have it, don't get it.
❤Yaaaaaaaaas 🔥🔥🔥 missed the soothing tone of your voice with just a pinch of superiority...roast that bush! ❤ love your videos! You always make my day better!
@@phytosexual it translates well on camera❤. Also (risking a little cringe) it's breathy , like old Hollywood actresses ( Marilyn, Garbo etc.) that's what makes it relaxing/soothing for me. Even when you have more energy(for a joke etc.) you still talk as if you're putting a spell on the viewer. I like it! 🥰
"By all means, don't let me get in the way of your lust for financial ruin" - me, when I see "plant influencers" acting like paying a solid three figure$$$ for a cutting is *reasonable.* I love this video. I'm a cheap plant btch and proud of it. Your bird of paradise is 🤩🤩🤩 btw.
Its even funnier when you see cities go for the money trap they were sold and put them all in giant planters on the streets, like thank you for a free cutting😂 i can grow two leaves of your overgrown, dying on the sidewalk, glam girl into a well groomed miss america
I just found your channel and I am obsessed. I love your dry self deprecating humour, your obvious intelligence, your extensive plant knowledge and your beautiful! Thank you for your great videos! Can I have some more please?
As a historian, I completely agree with your description of the victorian era. I would like to add that strychnine could be purchased from any pharmacy and was used "therapeutically"... as well as rat poison. Why have multiple poisons when you could only have one?
I'm Australian, I purchased my large Cebu blue for $50 (6 months ago). But there are so many cheeky assholes here that label everything 'rare' and take advantage of the market.
They sell them here in Texas USA for 15 dollars for a large hanging basket. I wonder what cheaper plants you have in Australia that are expensive here 🤔
@@LilGagaChick hoya, dischidia, cactus & succulents are very reasonably priced here because they are easy to grow in our climate. Also Australia has extremely strick import laws, a license is required to import plants & generally only business' are granted those licences. Imports have to be strict as Australia is an island with unique fauna & flora.
hey nick! im from brazil and today i was reading on bbc news about the fever of rare plants and how this is destroying the native plants of rainforests, because of a millionaire market. i thought maybe you could do a video about it. love your channel!
YES!! So much drama, especially on FB group….best tea ever. People volunteering in Botanical Gardens just so they can steal rare plants, or pretend to “study” Monstera in the Wild and are stupid enough to take pics of themselves ripping out Aroids in the Amazon rainforest, when they can’t prove that they’re sponsored by an academic institution or are writing appropriate botanical publications that would warrant the removal of rare species for research. Nah….they just poach away and pretend to be some hotshot “researcher.” This topic is super hot tea right now 😆
I like three dollar peasantry. I won't be shamed by that; I'm descended from generations of peasants. Like me, these plants are built to take it: disease resistant, hardy, strong, reliable, adaptable, and all that good stuff. Anyway, Lowe's had the normal variety of Aspidistra elatior out with the bedding plants this year, also a Monrovia offering. They stopped me in my tracks with their succulent sheen and I live with the regret of not buying one that day because they were all gone when I went back. I strictly grow my Caladiums and coleus outside. My Caladiums are the 50 cents/10 bulb variety at the end of season Walmart clearance. I dig the tubers up every year and they hang in my laundry room in a lingerie bag until it's time to wake up. I also add to the number when I get a good deal. I also buy my taro roots in the produce section of my grocery store, when they're on sale. That's what I plant outside, again, no shame.
I also bought my apsidistra from the outside garden area at a Lowe's years ago. It has barely doubled in size, though the leaves are much bigger and droop at just the right place.
@@RealBradMiller I'm new to the plant community and I also like my home depot plant peasantry. They are beautiful to me and I can keep them alive unlike my social life so works for me lol
Pretty much all tropical plants were once deemed rare to people outside the tropics. And a lot of "rare" plants currently are actually quite easy to propagate. In my area you can find black zz plants for example in the produce aisle of basically every single supermarket around, yet I've heard people in other areas refer to them as "rare". Even variegated alocasias, and philodendrons have begun to appear at big box stores in my area. Recently I bought two stunning Geogenanthus ciliatus at a Home depot and the look them up online to see them being sold as "rare" for four times the price as I paid.
About Caladiums. Many years ago, not in the Victorian time but way before you were born, Caladium was "IT" as the aquarium plant. Yes, they can grow submerged for about 3 months. Then you dig it out, store in almost dry soil mix until next growing cycle. Just sweet childhood memories.
I was literally just thinking about your videos last night and how much I missed them!! Thank you for being a voice of reason and crazy plant community 😂 And it's funny, my goldfish plant is literally one of my faves! I love her weird flowers 🌷
I randomly got a Black Pagoda about 6 months ago at a local nursery in Los Angeles. It was hanging above their checkout counter and I had to ask what it was because I had never seen one. The shop employee told me it was probably 3 years old. It’s fully grown, full and trailing in about a 6 inch pot for $25. I love it. Love your videos! Thank you for the new suggestions
I am a congregation of moths, but I prefer our proper group name, an eclipse of moths. Thank you as always for a hilarious and informative video! The vocabulary buffet is nearly as erotic as the macro shots. Here in zone 7b/8a of the NC piedmont, cast iron plants are perennials, and caladiums are an amazing annual. Hearing word that there is also now a perennial rex begonia for our zone. I grow flags and irises that came from my great-grandmother - I adore their foliage but not the cloying scent. The flags looooove the perpetual wet areas of the garden.
I have a black pagoda lipstick plant. It was just two cuttings and stayed that way for ages because I lived in a very dark and cold flat. Now that it lives near a bright window it's flourishing, it's lush, it's gorgeous. Of course though... it waited until November to flower... so I'm not gonna see any colourful blooms any time soon because they just fall without getting much sun now (hopefully I'll get some next summer)
I’ll just comment as we go here - 1. Calissia and tradescantia are my FAVORITE! I hate how under rated they are. They got pretty big on the taplap but even then it was $30 a 6” pot or so. I collect them. I have a pot of every calissia I can find and a pot of every tradescantia I can find. I love them!
a pot? tradescantia got from 1 pot to 10 in less than 1 year 8( calissia also filled up 3 pots starting from this spring till now from just 2 tiny pieces... i love them for that though...
Oh yay a fun and really informative, interesting video from Nick ! I had a walking iris years ago -it was a great houseplant... I got it from a Rutgers U. greenhouse plant sale ( lots of goodies) Neomarica is rarely available now in stores. Instead of following the “rare plant” demand I wish there were some growers who take chances on producing the more uncommon ones. Sigh... it all comes down to -of course -financial gain. Hey I was introduced to plant passion when I was 5. After chores were done my Granny would put peanut butter sandwiches in her smallish pocketbook and we would walk maybe 2 miles to the cemetery. It was an old one in Newark NJ... I loved it because there were wonderful sculptures, and especially the oval pictures of the dead embedded in the headstones. I digress.... after sitting on the steps of a wealthy monument we rested, and ate the sandwiches. Then oh fun...we’d walk around and after respectfully acknowledging the deceased, she would teach me to only take 3 small pieces of whatever caught he fancy growing in front of the headstone- but only from the back of the plant. No visible damage, and with 3, at least one would root. Geez she would almost fill that pocketbook....we didn’t go often, and her small garden was amazingly gorgeous. I now have a cemetery just down the road, but it’s all plastic flowers and doodads because at about 4 pm there is a herd of about 17 deer that come out and eat anything that grows. Apologies for the length of this, but seeing the clip of stealing the grave flowers made me remember and crack up!! Thanks again for showing a great selection of plants 🌿🌱🌻
OMG the “expensive annuals” comment has me dead. I see people buying Persian Shields on Etsy for $20-40, talking about “it’s a rare plant.” GIRL. NO. They are $3 every summer at Lowes smh
I love my unpopular cheap plants, majority of my plants are those. Of ones mentioned, I have callisia repens (and other callisias, they're lovely, basket plant being my fav); Dischidia ruscifolia green and variegated; had caladiums but didn't keep them post dormancy, might retry; got some coleous in the garden (San Francisco weather allows all year yay) ... next to some rex begonias, got that snake plant but it's a single stalk atm -- from some place got the milky way cast iron tiny plant lol; got an anthurium superburm from the local plant shop that also sells poppers and use to sell floggers, and course black pagoda lipstick plant and also like 3 other lipstick plants (and SO many goldfish plants, iirc they're semi related) If don't have, I suggest, for usually well priced: codonatanthus, streptocarpella, and there's so many nice cissus beside the super popular discolour (my discolour is going wild atm though, it's so pretty).
why👏does👏noone👏talk👏about black👏pagoda👏lipsticks?? one of the prettiest leaves ever - absolutely stunning pattern, super easy to grow and propagate, don't need to water often, flowers indoors (like wtf, nothing does that for me), doesn't get bald at the top like some popular hanging plants 🤮 and I love the odd coloured flowers. this plant brings me so much joy. also, its pet safe!!
I bought one of these having no idea what it was and man is it beautiful, purple veins from the bottom and a super badass pattern on the top. I was like how the fuck have I never heard of these before?
Iris are my favorite flower, so even though it’s not technically an iris, that walking iris is one I need to own. Thank you for bringing them to my attention. Also I’m regretting not buying one of those massive rex begonias from Lowe’s…I was nervous because I killed the only rex begonia I’ve ever had, but maybe they will get them in next spring and I can try again.
I love the way you put such effort into your plants. The plants leaves are always so well cared for. Can you do tips or ideas about which plants suits best for your home and personality? I will be looking forward to it! Yaay! 🌱❤️
I always want planty youtube people to mention coleus plants, I know they wont but I think of it anyway for a few seconds before I watch the video. They are sooooo colourful and can have crazy leaf shapes and like you said, people try so hard to get a bit of white or light green with their green plant. I love u for appreciating them :')
Yes!!! The callisa reopens! Mine is as huge as yours and I bought as a 2” pot about a year ago. Grows so fast. The more you trim it, the fuller it gets.
Walking Iris!! Yes I love those and their flowers and love that you’re talking about them!! Used to have them growing in my backyard and I’ve been thinking about them. Yes they would always bloom after a rain so liking water tracks. Would they work as a houseplant?? I suppose just without the fun of it “walking” and popping up all over outside.
In Australia, plants that are hip length go for 59 dollars and up. Like um no thank you, it's almost the same price of what people would sell for toilet paper in the pandemic.
I have a mini wondering dude! (the first one) it was a 4in pot for $3 and I have it in a 7in pot rn and I've had it for about 3 months and it's grown huge!! I have so many cuttings I don't even know what to do with all of them!! 😭😭 It's such a fun plant, never heard anyone even know it existed!
Love coleus!!! theyre so colorful and come in sooooo many varieties. I had a hanging basket with wedding train coleus and dragonsblood coleus but I went away for a few weeks in the fall and it succumbed to frost.
I never knew that was called a walking iris. I remember seeing them sometimes in some malls in Canada. They look quite nice and lush once they are mature with babies hanging. I would add gesneriads. Basically all of them. They are so easy to care for and propagate, and most of them to flower. They are so giving. Streptocarpus alone are one of the best flowering houseplants I've had in that the flowers are big and showy and they can basically bloom all year with decent light. AND their flowers when cut last for weeks, usually around a month for me if cut right within a few days of the buds opening. I grow them all over even where I don't see them because I use the plants for cut flowers so have the beautiful flowers in a small vase where I can see them. Just change the water once a week and trim the bottom of the cut stems when they look brown to prolong life. Oh ya the plants are cheap too, usually 10-20 dollars.
Your Videos are always better and better :) and the greatest plants are the ones wich grow like Crazy in your circumstances :) For me my Ficus Lyrata, my Ferns, my Syngoniums, my Epipremnums, my Trandescanthiae and my Rhipsalis. Last but Not least my calatheas. Bought a Lipstickplant a year ago , reduced and i always wanted it. What should i say...its meditating...not growing, not dying, sometimes a yellow leaf, to tell me: Aah , you know, i won‘t tell you what i want, but..... Then i turn to my sanseverias in Full light and a lot of water and they sing:) Life is beautiful :) ( and sorry for my Bad englisch )
I just discovered your channel and what youtube treasure! Damn algorithm for not giving me the treasure sooner!! I love love love your personality ❤😂❤😂 Subscribed right away. FYI I am moth woman lmao!
I thought you said “Florida toast” - and spent the next few minutes considering why. Conclusion, maybe Floridians don’t like their toast to be very toasty, which would explain the lack of color and name. Then you picked it up and called it a Ghost.
Have been missing your videos!! The witticisms in this one tho' 😅. Excellent! This may be your best video to date. BTW, you lifting the callisia reminded me of a cancan dancer lifting her skirt🕺.
I'm in Queensland, and I can assure you that you pay far more for plants than we ever do or would. We can get Cebu Blue rooted cuttings from $5 and up. You just have to know where to shop.
Miss philodendron “golden goddess” is one of those common plants that I’m just absolutely in love with, I adore the growth pattern and the contrast between the vibrant leaves and the pink stems
I absolutely LOVE Caladiums and it really surprises that the plant community sleeps on them. They have the gorgeous big heart shaped leaves and verigation that isn’t unstable like a certain monstera. the best part is that they’re so cheap here in South FL! I can pick up a 5 inch pot at my local nursery for $3! I’m definitely going to look into that iris you mentioned because unlike the majority I actually like flowers LOL
I hate to admit this but I am actually over 10 thousand moths puppetting a human skin. The reason I grow Hoyas is because I want to find the one with the most delicious nectar and then grow thousands of them on which my children can feed.
I might be a moth... no, but really I have 5 cats and every night I have to take moths out otherwise the cats will jump on me for hours trying to catch them... so yes definitely emotional turmoil
Anthurium superbum is literally so underrated I can’t sing it’s praises enough. I have grown it in a multitude of conditions and it has always continued grow beautifully- been in my collection for well over two years and never given me a reason to dislike it…but also have only grown two leaves 😂 it’s not gonna take over your house any time soon. Black pagoda is also so sexy I love hanging it in a window so you can see the purple veins. Just confirming that you do in fact need them🤷♀️
Affordable and giant don't mix since it takes resources and time to grow plants. I would recommend big box stores for relatively cheap plants in general.
OK I literally love your attitude and sarcasm😂 my husband heard you talking on another video and asked who you were mad at 😆 I said oh sweetheart,.. That's just him. He's gotta be my twin 😂😂 he agreed🤣
I’m so confused by the title because by me (upstate NY) ALL of these plants are rare. The ONLY one I’ve seen in stores by me from NY to NJ to PA to CT is the begonia Rex. Although caladiums grow along roadsides here I’ve only seen them in one house and one restaurant ever. I’d sure love to have your issue of having “common” houseplants by me. All they sell (sadly) is endangered species that are hard to come by normally like podocarpus salignus and yavia cryptocarpa for example.
instagram.com/phytosexual & like if you liked the video 💚
You forgot women ate tape worms to stay thin in the Victorian era. Isn't that a lovely thought YUM.
OMG I'm literally 1 minute 9 seconds in and I am in love with your personality.😁❤
Yes confidence! 🥳
Moth
I came for the plants, I stayed for the comedic genuis😂💖
I really don't like Instagram. So I don't go on it anymore
I’m honestly going to start asking myself “Is this plants $300 because it’s special or is it special because it’s $300”. Such wise words
r/showerthoughts
Remember everyone, sometimes things that are expensive…are worse.
@@myconfusedmerriment
this statement is true, i bought a lavender for 1R$ (0.18 dollars for measurement) and its so pretty today, thriving as never before
@@myconfusedmerriment is this a Freckle reference?
Further wise words of Nick Alexander: rare plants are plants and growlights are lights.
As a conglomeration of moths just wanted to confirm, yes, we do want to cause emotional distress thank you very much 😌
Look!!! Over there! 👀💡
Shiny me likey
I can attest to moths' thirst for chaos as they've ruined my life at least 3 times now. They ransacked my gluten free baking flours in the pantry THROUGH THE BAGS, their caterpillars attacked my baby salad greens outside, then they ravaged my nocturnal moonflower. Once, I felt a tickle at my heart center during meditation; looked down, a moth flew out of my sports bra. Complete menaces.
I Used to buy expensive plants based on my own budget (which was small). After growing them together with other chep plants, I can confirm that there is no differences of happiness between growing expensive plants and cheap plants. So now I stop buying expensive plants. Only cheap plants and I am still so happy.
Rare plant people hate me hahah
There's definitely some more expensive plants I am obsessed with but there's also some 5$ plants I'm obsessed with and I always try to get the baby versions of the expensive plants I love. My love for plants depends almost entirely on if the look of the plant appeals to me but some other factors are interest in growth pattern/ leaf shapes and veinstions, cool variegation patterns and honestly, I do find it super fun if you can manage to snag a "rare" plant but even then I'm only gonna get it if I can get a good deal on it. I literally got a Billietiae for $4.50 CAD and I'm JACKED about it. I think if you love a plant, get it. If you want it because other people have it, don't get it.
❤Yaaaaaaaaas 🔥🔥🔥 missed the soothing tone of your voice with just a pinch of superiority...roast that bush! ❤ love your videos! You always make my day better!
Thank you so much also I find it weird people say my voice is soothing, I mostly get annoying irl
Is at night for me, but i know damn well im gonna have a sweet dream tonight without all the rat and roaches haunting me while im unconscious
@@phytosexual it translates well on camera❤. Also (risking a little cringe) it's breathy , like old Hollywood actresses ( Marilyn, Garbo etc.) that's what makes it relaxing/soothing for me. Even when you have more energy(for a joke etc.) you still talk as if you're putting a spell on the viewer. I like it! 🥰
"By all means, don't let me get in the way of your lust for financial ruin" - me, when I see "plant influencers" acting like paying a solid three figure$$$ for a cutting is *reasonable.* I love this video. I'm a cheap plant btch and proud of it. Your bird of paradise is 🤩🤩🤩 btw.
It's not reasonable, it's expected.
Its even funnier when you see cities go for the money trap they were sold and put them all in giant planters on the streets, like thank you for a free cutting😂 i can grow two leaves of your overgrown, dying on the sidewalk, glam girl into a well groomed miss america
I just found your channel and I am obsessed. I love your dry self deprecating humour, your obvious intelligence, your extensive plant knowledge and your beautiful! Thank you for your great videos! Can I have some more please?
A new one was birthed today if you haven't already seen it.
"That's also the stupidest way to get huanted." Lmao, you got me on that one.
Don't be lifting up Miss Callisia's dress like that showing the world her goods LOL..
Sweet video! 😁
Ikr I felt dirty watching that 😂😂
the pot?
@@phytosexual it felt very reminiscent of a CanCan dancer lifting their skirts 😂
@@phytosexual No lol her leaves ... It looked like you were raising her skirt when you lifted up all the leaves to show how dense it was LOL 😅🤣🤣🤣
As a historian, I completely agree with your description of the victorian era. I would like to add that strychnine could be purchased from any pharmacy and was used "therapeutically"... as well as rat poison. Why have multiple poisons when you could only have one?
How about heated bathtubs without thermostats? How did we survive?
@@LillibitOfHere we didn't 🤷🏻♀️ they're all mysteriously dead, much like my calatheas and alocasias 🙄
A collection should be a mix of plants you like. Price shouldn’t be an attribute that makes a plant more desirable.
Exactly
I'm Australian, I purchased my large Cebu blue for $50 (6 months ago).
But there are so many cheeky assholes here that label everything 'rare' and take advantage of the market.
They sell them here in Texas USA for 15 dollars for a large hanging basket. I wonder what cheaper plants you have in Australia that are expensive here 🤔
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@@LilGagaChick hoya, dischidia, cactus & succulents are very reasonably priced here because they are easy to grow in our climate. Also Australia has extremely strick import laws, a license is required to import plants & generally only business' are granted those licences.
Imports have to be strict as Australia is an island with unique fauna & flora.
@@michellereed479 very cool! I love succulents! I just started on hoyas. 😁
hey nick! im from brazil and today i was reading on bbc news about the fever of rare plants and how this is destroying the native plants of rainforests, because of a millionaire market. i thought maybe you could do a video about it. love your channel!
I should!
@@phytosexual you really should, I've subscribed in anticipation of this possibility
YES!! So much drama, especially on FB group….best tea ever. People volunteering in Botanical Gardens just so they can steal rare plants, or pretend to “study” Monstera in the Wild and are stupid enough to take pics of themselves ripping out Aroids in the Amazon rainforest, when they can’t prove that they’re sponsored by an academic institution or are writing appropriate botanical publications that would warrant the removal of rare species for research. Nah….they just poach away and pretend to be some hotshot “researcher.” This topic is super hot tea right now 😆
Fish stick plant, yup. You are perfection.. plant knowledge, dry humor, sarcastic, and calm demeanor all melded together in one person.
I like three dollar peasantry. I won't be shamed by that; I'm descended from generations of peasants. Like me, these plants are built to take it: disease resistant, hardy, strong, reliable, adaptable, and all that good stuff. Anyway, Lowe's had the normal variety of Aspidistra elatior out with the bedding plants this year, also a Monrovia offering. They stopped me in my tracks with their succulent sheen and I live with the regret of not buying one that day because they were all gone when I went back. I strictly grow my Caladiums and coleus outside. My Caladiums are the 50 cents/10 bulb variety at the end of season Walmart clearance. I dig the tubers up every year and they hang in my laundry room in a lingerie bag until it's time to wake up. I also add to the number when I get a good deal. I also buy my taro roots in the produce section of my grocery store, when they're on sale. That's what I plant outside, again, no shame.
I also bought my apsidistra from the outside garden area at a Lowe's years ago. It has barely doubled in size, though the leaves are much bigger and droop at just the right place.
@@RealBradMiller I'm new to the plant community and I also like my home depot plant peasantry. They are beautiful to me and I can keep them alive unlike my social life so works for me lol
my fav thing about the pretty cheapos is that if they die, it's not the end of the world 😌
Pretty much all tropical plants were once deemed rare to people outside the tropics. And a lot of "rare" plants currently are actually quite easy to propagate. In my area you can find black zz plants for example in the produce aisle of basically every single supermarket around, yet I've heard people in other areas refer to them as "rare". Even variegated alocasias, and philodendrons have begun to appear at big box stores in my area. Recently I bought two stunning Geogenanthus ciliatus at a Home depot and the look them up online to see them being sold as "rare" for four times the price as I paid.
Rarity is relative, which is why I don't buy into it.
About Caladiums. Many years ago, not in the Victorian time but way before you were born, Caladium was "IT" as the aquarium plant. Yes, they can grow submerged for about 3 months. Then you dig it out, store in almost dry soil mix until next growing cycle.
Just sweet childhood memories.
Interesting!
I was literally just thinking about your videos last night and how much I missed them!! Thank you for being a voice of reason and crazy plant community 😂
And it's funny, my goldfish plant is literally one of my faves! I love her weird flowers 🌷
As per usual. A video that is an excellent blend of educational and comedic entertainment! Bravo!
Okay i need a walking iris now, i had no idea it exists. I love the smell of iris flowers! Can the walking iris be inside year round?
YES its a tropical plant, like all of the others we grow.
i think i’m going to get one too. they look cool and it’ll be the closest thing to a water lily for now
No it’ll walk out on you duhhhh 😂💗
@@plantedinwv9043 omg😂😂
Lol, meh, not a big thrill. So many other amazing inexpensive plants out there. Happy gardening!
Secretly a moth 🙋🏻♀️ thanks for the snack recommendations!
You're becoming my fave plant youtuber. Great plant content, but your humour throughout the video's the best! 😆
Absolutely!
I randomly got a Black Pagoda about 6 months ago at a local nursery in Los Angeles. It was hanging above their checkout counter and I had to ask what it was because I had never seen one. The shop employee told me it was probably 3 years old. It’s fully grown, full and trailing in about a 6 inch pot for $25. I love it. Love your videos! Thank you for the new suggestions
I got a giant hanging pot of black pagoda about two years ago-- i love it! It definitely doesn't get enough love in the houseplant community.
I am a congregation of moths, but I prefer our proper group name, an eclipse of moths.
Thank you as always for a hilarious and informative video! The vocabulary buffet is nearly as erotic as the macro shots.
Here in zone 7b/8a of the NC piedmont, cast iron plants are perennials, and caladiums are an amazing annual. Hearing word that there is also now a perennial rex begonia for our zone. I grow flags and irises that came from my great-grandmother - I adore their foliage but not the cloying scent. The flags looooove the perpetual wet areas of the garden.
I have a black pagoda lipstick plant. It was just two cuttings and stayed that way for ages because I lived in a very dark and cold flat. Now that it lives near a bright window it's flourishing, it's lush, it's gorgeous. Of course though... it waited until November to flower... so I'm not gonna see any colourful blooms any time soon because they just fall without getting much sun now (hopefully I'll get some next summer)
good luck!
I’ll just comment as we go here - 1. Calissia and tradescantia are my FAVORITE! I hate how under rated they are. They got pretty big on the taplap but even then it was $30 a 6” pot or so. I collect them. I have a pot of every calissia I can find and a pot of every tradescantia I can find. I love them!
a pot? tradescantia got from 1 pot to 10 in less than 1 year 8( calissia also filled up 3 pots starting from this spring till now from just 2 tiny pieces... i love them for that though...
they are such crack!!! buying rare ones off etsy is my drug of choice 😆
Oh yay a fun and really informative, interesting video from Nick ! I had a walking iris years ago -it was a great houseplant... I got it from a Rutgers U. greenhouse plant sale ( lots of goodies) Neomarica is rarely available now in stores. Instead of following the “rare plant” demand I wish there were some growers who take chances on producing the more uncommon ones. Sigh... it all comes down to -of course -financial gain. Hey I was introduced to plant passion when I was 5. After chores were done my Granny would put peanut butter sandwiches in her smallish pocketbook and we would walk maybe 2 miles to the cemetery. It was an old one in Newark NJ... I loved it because there were wonderful sculptures, and especially the oval pictures of the dead embedded in the headstones. I digress.... after sitting on the steps of a wealthy monument we rested, and ate the sandwiches. Then oh fun...we’d walk around and after respectfully acknowledging the deceased, she would teach me to only take 3 small pieces of whatever caught he fancy growing in front of the headstone- but only from the back of the plant. No visible damage, and with 3, at least one would root. Geez she would almost fill that pocketbook....we didn’t go often, and her small garden was amazingly gorgeous. I now have a cemetery just down the road, but it’s all plastic flowers and doodads because at about 4 pm there is a herd of about 17 deer that come out and eat anything that grows. Apologies for the length of this, but seeing the clip of stealing the grave flowers made me remember and crack up!! Thanks again for showing a great selection of plants 🌿🌱🌻
I love this story ❤️
I love your everything about you and your content. ❤️
Thank you so much!!
OMG the “expensive annuals” comment has me dead. I see people buying Persian Shields on Etsy for $20-40, talking about “it’s a rare plant.” GIRL. NO. They are $3 every summer at Lowes smh
I love to see some recreation of posing with your plants like the Victorian Middle Classes used to do.
You should be in Harvard kid. Creative, funny and highly educated. Plus you grow tropical plants in your frozen tundra, what kind of wizardry is this?
I love my unpopular cheap plants, majority of my plants are those.
Of ones mentioned, I have callisia repens (and other callisias, they're lovely, basket plant being my fav); Dischidia ruscifolia green and variegated; had caladiums but didn't keep them post dormancy, might retry; got some coleous in the garden (San Francisco weather allows all year yay) ... next to some rex begonias, got that snake plant but it's a single stalk atm -- from some place got the milky way cast iron tiny plant lol; got an anthurium superburm from the local plant shop that also sells poppers and use to sell floggers, and course black pagoda lipstick plant and also like 3 other lipstick plants (and SO many goldfish plants, iirc they're semi related)
If don't have, I suggest, for usually well priced: codonatanthus, streptocarpella, and there's so many nice cissus beside the super popular discolour (my discolour is going wild atm though, it's so pretty).
...so I need a walking Iris lol
why👏does👏noone👏talk👏about black👏pagoda👏lipsticks??
one of the prettiest leaves ever - absolutely stunning pattern, super easy to grow and propagate, don't need to water often, flowers indoors (like wtf, nothing does that for me), doesn't get bald at the top like some popular hanging plants 🤮 and I love the odd coloured flowers. this plant brings me so much joy.
also, its pet safe!!
I bought one of these having no idea what it was and man is it beautiful, purple veins from the bottom and a super badass pattern on the top. I was like how the fuck have I never heard of these before?
@@givemewhiskeynow thank you for listening to my ted talk and joining the black pagoda rebel fanclub 🍃
aroid aesthetic
Woah that Rex Begonia is beautiful
Thank you, I barely grew it lol
But if I don't focus on killing overpriced aroids and species orchids, how am I supposed to have a beautifully dramatic extension of my self-hatred?
My grocery store has Callisia repens for like $3 right now, I was planning on getting one anyway but it's nice to know I have your full support :)
Ah yes! You were right... a constellation! Thank you for guiding me to it!
For some reason Aspidistra are expensive in the UK. I don't know why.
“These flower in spring, not that you care” You crack me up dude 😂
Philodendron Split Pea Soup had me lolling in a very full train just now 😂😂😂
Iris are my favorite flower, so even though it’s not technically an iris, that walking iris is one I need to own. Thank you for bringing them to my attention. Also I’m regretting not buying one of those massive rex begonias from Lowe’s…I was nervous because I killed the only rex begonia I’ve ever had, but maybe they will get them in next spring and I can try again.
I love the way you put such effort into your plants. The plants leaves are always so well cared for. Can you do tips or ideas about which plants suits best for your home and personality? I will be looking forward to it! Yaay! 🌱❤️
I'll put that on my list.
this is the gayest plant vlog i have ever seen, subscribed!!
Caladiums survive bc they evolved with their chloroplasts restructured, so they don't look green.
I always want planty youtube people to mention coleus plants, I know they wont but I think of it anyway for a few seconds before I watch the video. They are sooooo colourful and can have crazy leaf shapes and like you said, people try so hard to get a bit of white or light green with their green plant. I love u for appreciating them :')
It's the chase.
Love coleus, not sure it's California friendly though.
Yes!!! The callisa reopens! Mine is as huge as yours and I bought as a 2” pot about a year ago. Grows so fast. The more you trim it, the fuller it gets.
Youre fucking amazing and hilarious. Killin it
lol i felt like you showing off the callisia basket was like a victorian lady lifting up her giant skirt 😂
Your sense of humor slays me! Haha great video! I'm secretly a congregation of moths pretending to be a human, btw. Sssshhhh
We Stan moths on this channel.
Walking Iris!! Yes I love those and their flowers and love that you’re talking about them!! Used to have them growing in my backyard and I’ve been thinking about them. Yes they would always bloom after a rain so liking water tracks. Would they work as a houseplant?? I suppose just without the fun of it “walking” and popping up all over outside.
Yes! They do great indoors and you can perch them somewhere like a less contrived spider plant.
Hey Nick's Plants 😍🙏🏼❤️
LOOOOOL HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN YOU BEFORE? Seriously your video had me busting a guy laughing. Big big fan.
Thank you!
In Australia, plants that are hip length go for 59 dollars and up. Like um no thank you, it's almost the same price of what people would sell for toilet paper in the pandemic.
hahaha
Honestly, the first line of this video made me instantly subscribe! Lol
I thought of it in the shower.
I have a mini wondering dude! (the first one) it was a 4in pot for $3 and I have it in a 7in pot rn and I've had it for about 3 months and it's grown huge!! I have so many cuttings I don't even know what to do with all of them!! 😭😭 It's such a fun plant, never heard anyone even know it existed!
they're so fun!
Love coleus!!! theyre so colorful and come in sooooo many varieties. I had a hanging basket with wedding train coleus and dragonsblood coleus but I went away for a few weeks in the fall and it succumbed to frost.
Yes they're very tender. At least they're cheap.
I never knew that was called a walking iris. I remember seeing them sometimes in some malls in Canada. They look quite nice and lush once they are mature with babies hanging. I would add gesneriads. Basically all of them. They are so easy to care for and propagate, and most of them to flower. They are so giving. Streptocarpus alone are one of the best flowering houseplants I've had in that the flowers are big and showy and they can basically bloom all year with decent light. AND their flowers when cut last for weeks, usually around a month for me if cut right within a few days of the buds opening. I grow them all over even where I don't see them because I use the plants for cut flowers so have the beautiful flowers in a small vase where I can see them. Just change the water once a week and trim the bottom of the cut stems when they look brown to prolong life. Oh ya the plants are cheap too, usually 10-20 dollars.
Your Videos are always better and better :) and the greatest plants are the ones wich grow like Crazy in your circumstances :)
For me my Ficus Lyrata, my Ferns, my Syngoniums, my Epipremnums, my Trandescanthiae and my Rhipsalis. Last but Not least my calatheas.
Bought a Lipstickplant a year ago , reduced and i always wanted it.
What should i say...its meditating...not growing, not dying, sometimes a yellow leaf, to tell me: Aah , you know, i won‘t tell you what i want, but.....
Then i turn to my sanseverias in Full light and a lot of water and they sing:) Life is beautiful :)
( and sorry for my Bad englisch )
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High cheekbones, hilarious and smart personality, and AMAZING hair, can you please stop
how are we mere mortals supposed to compete
Thank so much :)
You are absolutely adorable I truly enjoy your videos but I do spill a lot of coffee from laughing
put it in a spy cup next time :p
I am, in fact, a moth swarm in a human suit.
I just discovered your channel and what youtube treasure! Damn algorithm for not giving me the treasure sooner!! I love love love your personality ❤😂❤😂 Subscribed right away. FYI I am moth woman lmao!
Sitting in my car procrastinating going into office for work. Watching this video, you make my day! You're so funny!
Is it a bantel sensation 🤔 sansevieria?
I thought you said “Florida toast” - and spent the next few minutes considering why. Conclusion, maybe Floridians don’t like their toast to be very toasty, which would explain the lack of color and name. Then you picked it up and called it a Ghost.
There is a plant species that I don't like. Begonias. IDK why.
I would never have paid more than I did for it tbh
Have been missing your videos!! The witticisms in this one tho' 😅. Excellent! This may be your best video to date. BTW, you lifting the callisia reminded me of a cancan dancer lifting her skirt🕺.
gurl I AM LIVING for this channel!!!!!
You are great 👍!
I thrive on sarcastic intelligence, you are hysterical 🤣
thank you!
walking iris aka neomarica, translate at spanish is something like newgay hahahahaha (literally)
hahahahaha
I'm in Queensland, and I can assure you that you pay far more for plants than we ever do or would. We can get Cebu Blue rooted cuttings from $5 and up. You just have to know where to shop.
Clicked so fast. 🙆♀️💃
Miss philodendron “golden goddess” is one of those common plants that I’m just absolutely in love with, I adore the growth pattern and the contrast between the vibrant leaves and the pink stems
I absolutely LOVE Caladiums and it really surprises that the plant community sleeps on them. They have the gorgeous big heart shaped leaves and verigation that isn’t unstable like a certain monstera. the best part is that they’re so cheap here in South FL! I can pick up a 5 inch pot at my local nursery for $3! I’m definitely going to look into that iris you mentioned because unlike the majority I actually like flowers LOL
Your soothing voice, your quick wit and your spot on anecdotes had me hitting the subscribe button less than 3 minutes in 💚🌱🪴🌿
Thank you!
I hate to admit this but I am actually over 10 thousand moths puppetting a human skin. The reason I grow Hoyas is because I want to find the one with the most delicious nectar and then grow thousands of them on which my children can feed.
I might be a moth... no, but really I have 5 cats and every night I have to take moths out otherwise the cats will jump on me for hours trying to catch them... so yes definitely emotional turmoil
I love your humor I am always laughing out loud with you not at you
Seeing Beyonce reminds me of a previous video where you said, "who's
delivering this, Beyonce?" Ha ha haaaaa gosh I missed you
Anthurium superbum is literally so underrated I can’t sing it’s praises enough. I have grown it in a multitude of conditions and it has always continued grow beautifully- been in my collection for well over two years and never given me a reason to dislike it…but also have only grown two leaves 😂 it’s not gonna take over your house any time soon. Black pagoda is also so sexy I love hanging it in a window so you can see the purple veins. Just confirming that you do in fact need them🤷♀️
Thank you!
i wish caladiums got more hype, my pure white florida moonlight is one of my favorite plants that i own, that and my dwarf banana
god you're so fucking funny. i enjoy your videos so much! :D
haha thanks
I have a turtle vine and its my favorite! I got a cutting for a dollar. Mine is more lanky though cause I live in the dark north.
I’m laughing so hard HAH, you are so good
A video about affordable giant plants would be divine.
Affordable and giant don't mix since it takes resources and time to grow plants. I would recommend big box stores for relatively cheap plants in general.
My anthurium super bum lives in a cold room in Colorado without a humidity and does great in winter.
Ferns are indeed the worst plants. They hates me first, I'm just hating back.
OK I literally love your attitude and sarcasm😂 my husband heard you talking on another video and asked who you were mad at 😆 I said oh sweetheart,.. That's just him. He's gotta be my twin 😂😂 he agreed🤣
I'm mad at the world and I take it out through my videos :p
@@phytosexual oh cute.. I take my anger out on the ground while I'm planting new flowers😂
Nick and Nick’s plants are so beautiful
Thanks :)
🦋what?! There is no emojis that are moths?! I object! As usual, I love your videos!
Great video, Nick.
I’m so confused by the title because by me (upstate NY) ALL of these plants are rare. The ONLY one I’ve seen in stores by me from NY to NJ to PA to CT is the begonia Rex. Although caladiums grow along roadsides here I’ve only seen them in one house and one restaurant ever. I’d sure love to have your issue of having “common” houseplants by me. All they sell (sadly) is endangered species that are hard to come by normally like podocarpus salignus and yavia cryptocarpa for example.
Didn't know I was a congregation of moths in human skin and a trench coat until now. Nectar do be good.
I enjoy your humor, dry but also silly. I'm going to go find you on Instagram.
I’m back, let me know if you want to do Christmas in Rockefeller Center
Hey Nick... do you like fish sticks? Yeah? Well that makes you a fish! lololol
Oh my god..so funny!!
Yep!! You are the male version of Kaylee Ellen! That make laugh so hard!
I actually learn a lot from you and some of it’s not even from the plants you’re awesome kid
New gender just dropped: congregation of moths pretending to be a human