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Protect These Two at ALL COSTS

by John Cole|  September 5, 202312:26 am| 25 Comments

This post is in: Garden Chats, John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House"

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Protect These Two at ALL COSTS

I ran across this the other day, and attention plant people, you are not allowed to buy plants online anywhere other than Botany Tropicals. This is why:

I think these may be the last true souls on planet earth, and they are here in West by God Virginia, and they must be protected at all cost. Every time I watch this video I smile because they are just so kind.

Here is there website again.

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    1. 1.

      Jay

      September 5, 2023 at 12:33 am

      Thank you John.

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      Yarrow

      September 5, 2023 at 12:42 am

      I love them! Their enthusiasm for their plants and people is heartwarming.

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      moonbat

      September 5, 2023 at 12:43 am

      OMG, they are adorable! I’m now looking for an open space on the sill so I can buy a plant from them.

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      frosty

      September 5, 2023 at 12:45 am

      OMG I need Plant 911 so badly! Our (possibly) 100-year-old lilac’s leaves have turned brown and are falling off and it’s too early in the year. I have to find out if something weird is going on.​
       
      ETA: All my other disasters are from neglect, natch.

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      Yarrow

      September 5, 2023 at 12:45 am

      Also check out their greeting cards. I love that they’re from the Homo Card Co. Great name.

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      Enzymer

      September 5, 2023 at 12:47 am

      Oh they are so sweet!!!! Bookmarked

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      SiubhanDuinne

      September 5, 2023 at 12:54 am

      They are adorable! Where in WV is Hinton located? (Off to ask the ever-helpful Mister Google.)

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      Kristine

      September 5, 2023 at 12:56 am

      I sub’d to their newsletter!

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      Yarrow

      September 5, 2023 at 12:56 am

      @SiubhanDuinne:  Southern West Virginia. The accents take me right back…

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      Alison Rose

      September 5, 2023 at 1:00 am

      John, how come you don’t have that adorable accent?

      I love these darlings and I want nothing but good things for them always. Definitely gonna order something, although even they could not turn me into someone who does not kill a plant within weeks of bringing it into my home. I have the blackest of black thumbs. But that’s okay because I am 99% sure my cat would either knock it over, eat it, pee in it, or all three.

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      Argiope

      September 5, 2023 at 1:01 am

      The plant my colleagues sent me after my mother’s death 6 years ago lasted all this time. It was my first indoor plant, which my mom would have loved since she grew things in and out of doors. But this week it succumbed very quickly to some kind of fungal condition, and I need to replace it since Plant 911 is not yet operational and this one is, no doubt about it, a goner. Now I know where I’m going to find the new one. Thanks, JC.

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      Jay

      September 5, 2023 at 1:51 am

      John Scott-Railton
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      14h
      Vivek Ramaswamy’s team is crafting absurd tweets so you can dunk on them.

      Your engagement is the goal.

      You are being rage farmed.

      All Twitter’s algorithm sees when you quote tweet is a signal to further boost the content.

      Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
      Sep 4, 2023 · 3:25 PM UTC

      https://nitter.net/jsrailton/status/1698718930393575714#m

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      Betsy

      September 5, 2023 at 2:00 am

      Pillars of the community.  My little town wouldn’t be worth living in if not for the gay bakers, makers, community volunteers, activists,?stylists, real estate agents, shop owners and photojournalists— but our state reps and congresscritter wage endless psycho-vangelical war on The Ghey Menace.  It makes me boil.

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      Sfinny

      September 5, 2023 at 2:30 am

      Love this.  I have been looking for succulents and these guys have some amazing ones.

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      Kristine

      September 5, 2023 at 3:25 am

      Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

      Nominated. If I can manage it on my phone.

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      Betty Cracker

      September 5, 2023 at 5:19 am

      Awww. I love the “No Hate In My Holler” shirt!

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      p.a.

      September 5, 2023 at 6:16 am

      Seeds of change.  West Virginia!

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      Spanish Moss

      September 5, 2023 at 6:34 am

      Made me smile too. 🙂

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      satby

      September 5, 2023 at 7:31 am

      They’re adorable and have some things I want to order, as soon as I get my monthly “moochers on the government teat” deposit.

      In the meantime, after disappearing during the last two heatwave days, latest porch kitty and presumed Bitchleen sibling was captured this morning and is safely ensconced in the isolation bedroom, awaiting transport for a neuter tomorrow. Girl kitty is out of heat and back to acting like a feral nutcase, so once I capture her from under the furniture in the same room and she goes to be spayed, we’re going to try a different foster to expose her to other people. If she never comes out of her shell she may be unadoptable and she’ll come back to me, because she wouldn’t survive as a barn cat or released as a true feral. Everyone light a candle she decides other people are cool.

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      HinTN

      September 5, 2023 at 7:33 am

      Bought their last two “Your cornbread ain’t quite done in the middle” cards. I cannot wait to send them!

      Thank you, John. That made my morning.

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      Geminid

      September 5, 2023 at 7:39 am

      I heard about another West Virginia plant operation; this one grows Chinquapin trees for sale. These small nut trees were well known to country folk growing up in central Virginia but are now scarce. I don’t know the grower’s name, but he lives not too far from Monterey, Virginia where he sells his trees at the biannual Maple Syrup Festivals. A friend plans to buy a few there this Fall.

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      Ramalama

      September 5, 2023 at 8:00 am

      Sending this link to my gay uncles in the DC area, tout de suite. They know a shite-ton of people, and are very supportive of small businesses esp those of the homo variety. Both uncles had trouble in the early times (pre-AIDS) holding down jobs with corporate ‘Merica (like “You’re fired because so and so told us you’re gay, buh-bye”), and so went out on their own and have developed a business savvy that has them sitting pretty now.

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      Miss Bianca

      September 5, 2023 at 9:55 am

      OMG, they are adorable. I love that they have a “metaphysical section” in their plant store! And that they serve as a community meeting space! Even tho’ I have a grey thumb I may just have to dial up their website and look through it for “hardest to kill houseplants!”

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      currawong

      September 5, 2023 at 8:20 pm

      Well, they look awesome.

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      Sarah

      September 5, 2023 at 9:20 pm

      @frosty: I’m in WMass & a neighbor just had to cut down his decades old Lilac because of a disease of some sort (long covid brain forgetfulness as to what it was). Our two also suddenly look bad so I’m hoping it’s just the incredibly nasty summer weather we’ve had. I did find this link that might help

      https://gardenerspath.com/plants/ornamentals/lilac-diseases/

      @john – thank you for the link! They are delightful & I’ll order a plant or several when we get back from vacation

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