Good morning Folks, Yesterday I took a ride to the outer Miami area in search of $2.00 orchids and low profile pots for a few of my adenium. We (my neighbor and I) stopped at a garden shop and saw this beautifully proportioned ceramic pot shaped like a turtle, it had adequate drain holes which is difficult to fine in any of the ceramic pots and the tag I thought read $10.00. It was out in the very hot sun and weighed about 15 lbs. I picked it up and almost dropped it because it was so hot. I carried it about 20 yards to the sales desk and the clerk informed me that the cost was $110.00. Rain had washed off the first 1, but on very close inspection I saw he was right. I just gotta remember that if it sounds too good to be true, then it isn't . I just thought you might get a chuckle out of my embarrassment. My search goes on.

Jim

I expected that from you, Jim!!! What a goofy mistake!

Just ribbing you, of course. Or "of coarse"

I bet that was a cool looking pot. Had you bought it, the next day some fool would have stolen it! You bet.

Maybe we can build one out of hypertuffa....

Well I'm thinking I'll find what I need if I travel to the Florida tundra! But your right and I didn't think of that; it would defiantly get stolen even if I could have afforded it.

Jim

Screening? What do they screen for? Nice plant there!

They screen for age, children under 18, ability to pay association costs, and prison records. They asked for permission to put the sign in my front yard and I said O.K., the adenium is one of my favorites, I think if you click on it you get a better view of the caudex.

Jim

jimsned2 said:Good morning Folks, Yesterday I took a ride to the outer Miami area in search of $2.00 orchids and low profile pots for a few of my adenium. We (my neighbor and I) stopped at a garden shop and saw this beautifully proportioned ceramic pot shaped like a turtle, it had adequate drain holes which is difficult to fine in any of the ceramic pots and the tag I thought read $10.00. It was out in the very hot sun and weighed about 15 lbs. I picked it up and almost dropped it because it was so hot. I carried it about 20 yards to the sales desk and the clerk informed me that the cost was $110.00. Rain had washed off the first 1, but on very close inspection I saw he was right. I just gotta remember that if it sounds too good to be true, then it isn't . I just thought you might get a chuckle out of my embarrassment. My search goes on.
Jim

Hahah
aha that sounds like me. I never wear my glasses. You should have insisted in $10. The one was washed away? That makes it $100 off from MOTHER Nature!

A shrewd merchant would have told you the rain washed the TWO first 1s, making this an $1,110 pot. At that price, they had better come up with a very good provenance story. A $5 antique butter churn is just that: an old butter churn...boring! But, make it into the butter churn that Martha Washington used to make butter for the shortbread cookies George loved so much, and it's now a national treasure. Publicize the story and you'll have a representative of the Smithsonian museum at your door in less than 2 days. Jim, I say you should have bought the pot at $110 and worked on a good provenance story to cash in on this. Who knows, that nursery might still have said pot.

Best of luck with that.
Sylvain.

A very pretty white!