Those plants looked crammed up in that locked box.
Unfortunately plant theft is on the rise, I know they have security cameras at Lukas and Leu Gardens now...sad but true. I've seen people post on Social media plants being stolen out of their yards, now that's really crazy.

If you look at Instagram, the Do-it-yourself Pest control place by me in Oviedo is now selling rare plants, they have some Pink Princess plant ( I think around $400.00), they keep them inside where they can keep an eye on them. A couple weeks ago they had Monstera Adonsonii Variegated $1800. It must have sold because it is gone now! I can't imagine paying that for a plant . I have although found some good deals on the clearance rack, that were under 12.00. Anyway it is still fun to stop in and check out what's on display and see how expensive they are.

Look up on Instagram...they don't ship, you have to come pick it up, she said she's working on how to ship them. I will say they are very healthy plants.
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I could think of a lot I could do with $1800.

Me too.

Oviedoplants does have some nice things at good prices. I'll have to remember that if we ever get to travel down that way again. I considered selling a good sized Pink Princess plant but I put it in the ground instead.

Alice they could get bolt cutters at the same Ace Hardware and snip the locks in no time. Or wire cutters for the cheap chicken wire.
I pilfered some spent marigolds seeds at HD one time, dropped them before I left. I couldn't go through with it. These 2 books mentioned by Sally and Gina in older posts are really calling to me, I'll have to check out if they come in a Kindle version.

I could redo some hardscape in my garden for 1800 bucks or better yet buy a beautiful purebred horse.

The horse is two in one = lots of fun with lots of manure for the garden.

I could put in a driveway!

Yeah who has $$$$$$ to spend like that on a plant? Not me

Maybe a firepit and set of good chairs..several loads of mulch and guys to spread it..

Just to fuel the fires here, I went to a plant sale at a guy's private garden last weekend. There was a vendor there with a few little pots with starts of Pink Princess in them. 3in. pots, plants maybe 6in. tall. $200 each. My friend and I laughed out loud, she said "I have a Pink Princess that's 3ft tall and I could make 10 divisions like that out of the babies in the pot". And she got her plant at Ace Hardware a couple of years ago for $20.

The shoe dropped when my garden helper came to work yesterday, and I was telling her about those plants. She said "was this at Rob's place?" and I said it was. She said she had given those plants to Rob for FREE! Good Grief.

They're not rare plants, they propagate easily, people can buy them at a big box store or a hardware store garden center. What are people thinking?? I have to figure it's something to do with people marketing plants online, and plant nuts not going shopping at actual nurseries as much as they used to. It's easy to list a picture of a beautiful big plant, put the word "Rare!" in the headline and put a huge price tag on it. Some fool will buy it . . . and when it arrives, it's a tiny little start.

We need more plant swaps to be happening, and we need more people to start going shopping, and trading plants again. This idiocy will stop once things get back to normal, I hope.

Monstera deliciosa 'Marmorata is up to $1,601 on Steve's Leaves right now and it has a little less than 2 days left. It does nothing for me. It's not a nice variegation. Even searching other examples of it, I don't see the appeal. It looks like a sick leaf. Meanwhile a black maranta is up to $151 next to it. That is one I have wanted for over 10 years, but I won't even spend that much for it. I guess if I were to propagate it, it would be worth it. It will go up a few hundred dollars by the end.
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dyzzypyxxy said:Just to fuel the fires here, I went to a plant sale at a guy's private garden last weekend. There was a vendor there with a few little pots with starts of Pink Princess in them. 3in. pots, plants maybe 6in. tall. $200 each. My friend and I laughed out loud, she said "I have a Pink Princess that's 3ft tall and I could make 10 divisions like that out of the babies in the pot". And she got her plant at Ace Hardware a couple of years ago for $20.

The shoe dropped when my garden helper came to work yesterday, and I was telling her about those plants. She said "was this at Rob's place?" and I said it was. She said she had given those plants to Rob for FREE! Good Grief.

They're not rare plants, they propagate easily, people can buy them at a big box store or a hardware store garden center. What are people thinking?? I have to figure it's something to do with people marketing plants online, and plant nuts not going shopping at actual nurseries as much as they used to. It's easy to list a picture of a beautiful big plant, put the word "Rare!" in the headline and put a huge price tag on it. Some fool will buy it . . . and when it arrives, it's a tiny little start.

We need more plant swaps to be happening, and we need more people to start going shopping, and trading plants again. This idiocy will stop once things get back to normal, I hope.

Yeah I have been to a couple sales at Rob's. He ALWAYS inflates the prices horrendously....and reselling plants like that that you get for cheap or free is plant flipping. Its irritating.

Why do people have to be such jerks?

Gina1960 said:

Yeah I have been to a couple sales at Rob's. He ALWAYS inflates the prices horrendously....and reselling plants like that that you get for cheap or free is plant flipping. Its irritating.

Not only irritating, it is sleazy and unethical.

You have to admit he has done a fabulous job landscaping his place.....I can;t imagine when he had to have bought that land to have been able to afford that much space in Sarasota. But jeez he has such a hugely inflated ego about it. He is on many of the Facebook pages I follow.
We are having a local sale and trade event here that the page I am a co-Admin on for Gainesville is hosting. We got together with a local nursery who is welcoming us to do it free of charge at their place, there is a food truck, gelato, boba tea....it promises to be a lot of fun. The last one we had was at a girl's house here who was a member of our page. But she is extremely hard to like and hard to network with. She got mad about something on the page and left the group and unfriended everyone. SO we just reposted the sale we were going to have from her house to this new venue. It promises to be so much better in so many ways

Good luck and success on the up coming plant sale Gina. I wish I could see it. Hope you have time to post some of the plants here. And the weather cooperates.

Went to the really good nursery near me. I could hardly find any 6 inch pot for less than 35 or 40 bucks. Red aglaonema that I got at the depot maybe 6 years ago for 9.99 was like 40.
3 inch pot .. 12 or 15 bucks..Is this NJoy? I dont care for this plant anyway.


Well .. nice to think I have "hundreds " of dollars worth of plants that are mostly from swaps and letting little things grow big.

Wanted satin pothos 0nce.. not for this price.

My hoya from a cutting 3 or 4? years ago looks almost exactly.like this



At least this place takes good care of the plants.

$54.99 on the Hoya ~ seriously?!? That is getting crazy.

Nurseries were surely hard hit last year, but . . I guess it's their choice to sell half as many plants for twice the price, or not. They'd get by with less staff if they have less inventory. Does it make business sense? I don't know but we'll see. When wholesalers get back up to speed and the availability of plants is better again, will prices go down? Do prices ever go down once they've gone up?

Only if we resist.

Gardeners have the option of trading plants among themselves, and growing what they have, I suppose. It's sad though.

It certainly pays to shop around. I find if you hit the box stores, and even the Walmart on delivery day, you can find some really good deals. I live close to Apopka growers and know for a fact they deliver the same plants to all the local garden centers/nurseries, including the box stores around here. I know because I've seen the same truck on the same day, same guy stocking the plants when I'm doing my browsing....

This variegated hoya was at Lowe's for $12. something, the same day the same plants just slightly larger were at a local nursery for $59.


This Monstera was $6.98 at Walmart

I would love to spend a day visiting the Apopka growers. Driving through that town there appeared to be hundreds of growers, I did not have a lot of time, we were on our way to visit friends and I only made a few stops before having sensory overload.

I never go to our closest WalMart, although it is a newer store, only 2 years old, you have to walk through most of the store to get to and from the plant dept. and it is very small with only a few plants. Maybe I need to find another WM? That monstera is gorgeous.