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kiya ([personal profile] kiya) wrote2003-04-03 05:08 pm
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More plant stuff.

Meet Steve. I really don't know why this iris is named Steve, but I want to get me some Steve and plant it somewhere.

Posted here because I was discussing Steve with [livejournal.com profile] autumnesquirrel last night, and also because if I put a link to Steve somewhere I'll be able to find it later without finding [livejournal.com profile] oneironaut and asking pathetically, "Where's Steve again?"

Isn't Steve pretty?

(I have now lost 'Steve'. Steve, Stevestevesteve. It's not really a word, is it?)

Hee

[identity profile] leback.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The fern that Alexei and I have not yet acquired is named Steve. I've never been clear on the reason.

Steve, meet Steve.

[identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hi, I'm Steve, and I'll be your iris tonight."

[identity profile] keeps.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh. I want Steve.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2003-04-03 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I see that Wayside Gardens has smitten you.

Be careful. After resisting their blandishments for years, I suddenly ordered three rosebushes. I am now waiting to see if they have survived their first Minnesota winter.

WG's hardiness information is sometimes a bit optimistic.

And yes, Steve is divinely beautiful. I expect they just ran out of other names for irises, or else decided that in a genus called largely things like "Butter and Sugar" or "Irene," they wanted something manly. Cause it's blue, you know.

Pamela

[identity profile] briar24.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I particularly liked this line, "Maintenance-free, Steve reappears reliably every late spring to early summer in the sunny garden!"

I think... I want to marry Steve.
Steve sounds rather solid, yet, festive.

[identity profile] oneironaut.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I was disappointed by Wayside Gardens' website, but I grew up on their paper catalog and still consider it recreational reading. We had some really amazing gardening going at our last house, including one of my favorite plants ever, a Joseph's coat rosebush that cheerfully overgrew half the deck and bloomed for ages in half a dozen colors; that bush was entirely Wayside Gardens' fault.

And yes, Steve is divinely beautiful. I expect they just ran out of other names for irises, or else decided that in a genus called largely things like "Butter and Sugar" or "Irene," they wanted something manly. Cause it's blue, you know.

And 'Isidore' wasn't good enough? ;)

Re:

[identity profile] briar24.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Though, with my history of depression, I don't know that I'd want to marry a Steve who was quite so blue.
:)

[identity profile] briar24.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You get the pickup-line-of-the-week award, hands down.
And an extra 3 points for your icon photo.
:-)

[identity profile] oneironaut.livejournal.com 2003-04-03 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And 'Isidore' wasn't good enough? ;)

I just realized what an incredibly stupid thing I said -- gift of Isis, not gift of Iris, and furthermore duh.

And it was so amusing until I realized I had my letters switched around. Woe.
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[personal profile] redbird 2003-04-04 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Steve is gorgeous.

If I had a plausible sunny patch, I'd give him a home.

[identity profile] qarylla.livejournal.com 2003-04-04 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh plants!

I name all of my plants. I don't always remember the names later, but I try.

I used to have a bamboo named Shinji... it died.

Now I have a bamboo named Louis, a mostly dead pine named Fred, an Ivy named Fern (umm, yeah), a Habanero (which is really, really happy) named Mike (though most of the time I don't bother with the name), four tiny cactus of the apocalypse, and a jade and aloe who are ninja and don't bother with stupid little names (I think).

Whoa. I guess I have a few more living plants than I thought.

[identity profile] frozencapybara.livejournal.com 2003-04-04 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I used to have a bamboo named Shinji... it died.

I had a Swedish Ivy named Shinji. I kept it alive for about a year and a half. Most of the time it was all wilty, sad, and pathetic, and barely alive. Then, one day, for no reason I could determine, it apparently said to itself: "Wait! Life IS worth living after all! I'm happy! I'm going to GROW!" And it did. For about a week. Then it sunk back into its former sad, pathetic state. And then it died.
Shinji really was the appropriate name for it.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2003-04-04 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
*choke*

They're on safe ground there. Absent the iris borer, almost all irises are butch.

Pamela
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[personal profile] pameladean 2003-04-04 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
White Flower Farms' website almost outstrips their catalog. Almost. I agree that Wayside's is but a pale shadow. And yes. I keep them and reread them. I think it was Susan Sontag who once, when asked what her favorite book was, asked if she could say "The White Flower Farm" catalog. This is essentially perverse, but still, I sometimes see the point. WG's prose is different but so evocative.

Pamela
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[personal profile] larksdream 2003-10-01 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Tough AND carefree... I like that in a Steve...