{"id":3243,"date":"2010-04-29T20:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T00:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2018-05-28T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T17:43:58","slug":"anatomy-of-a-plant-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Plant Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 2010 Gardens Illustrated<\/em> arrives in the mailbox.<\/p>\n

Two-page spread depicts in photographic splendor Carol Klein’s sumptuous spring-blooming choices to grow underneath Cornus controversa ‘Variegata.’<\/p>\n

What’s this Prunella-like, spiky, dusky pink-flowered wunderkind with the lush foliage? A calamint maybe? Lamium orvala, you say? Never heard of it.<\/p>\n

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(Photo courtesy of UK Hardy Plant Society)<\/p>\n

This photo is responsible for the ensuing mad dash to the computer. The excellent Hayefield<\/a> blog kept by Nancy Ondra profiles it under “Three Neat Plants” for May 2009, along with Symphytum x uplandicum ‘Axminster Gold.’ Which despite being a comfrey, is very<\/em> rare. I love comfreys — tough, happy, durable plants for shade — but rarely do they reach out and grab you through the monitor, Videodrome <\/a>style. This ‘Axminster Gold’ had me by the lapels.<\/p>\n

And look, Digging Dog has it for 2010! — no, sold out. After much frantic clicking, a single source for the comfrey is found for $20, normally what I could consider an absurd amount to pay for a plant. But it’s apparently the only one available in the whole world<\/em> at this moment in time.<\/p>\n

And that, my friends, is the anatomy of a plant purchase, one that’s left me breathless and short $31 (including shipping) without setting foot out of the house. (Never did and probably never will see the movie Videodrome but the reference comes in handy.)<\/p>\n

Now, back to this Lamium orvala…maybe there’s a cheap seed source…<\/p>\n

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