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Create your own plant
OK. So you've got some plants in your garden that you just love and some that maybe causing some hassles. Imagine being able to put in an order to have your very own designed plant turn up next week via courier.
What would it look like? Would it flower? Would it be a foliage plant? Or could it even be a foliage plant that flowered and grew as tall as an oak?
If I designed my own plant it would have to be a tree because there are so many trees that I like some aspects of but find other characteristics unappealing or inconvenient. Take for example the mango tree. I love mangoes and I also love bananas. Imagine a tree that would only grow to a height of 3m, produce mangoes in summer and bananas in winter and flowered like a jacaranda.
Or, imagine a rose that constantly flowered, never had a dormant period and flushed different coloured roses each season. Your imagination could run wild couldn't it?
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I've enjoyed your creative and imaginative recent posts! What a fun concept to design your own plant. I'd like a minature rainbow rose bush that had every color flower in the rainbow. It would just look happy in my windowsill. I also wish I had low-light mutants of all my favorite houseplants, so I could grow them in my window-less office.
Posted by: nelumbo | January 25, 2006 12:15 PM
And I would like an instant replacement for the self sown tree that died last year. It was in our courtyard and kept the rooms cool in summer and had a lovely umbrella shape. But I would like it to never shed leaves and purple berries which created constant mess on the stones. While we're dreaming, I would like Carlton to finish in the top 8...
Posted by: Val | January 26, 2006 5:56 AM
Look at www.happycolors.info to brighten up your flowers and your mind !
Posted by: Sandra | October 19, 2006 10:57 PM