More plant stuff.

[kiya]

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 autumnesquirrel last night, and also because if I put a link to Steve somewhere I'll be able to find it later without finding 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?)

Comments

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[leback.livejournal.com]

The fern that Alexei and I have not yet acquired is named Steve. I've never been clear on the reason.

Steve, meet Steve.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

"Hi, I'm Steve, and I'll be your iris tonight."

[keeps.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I want Steve.

[pameladean]

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

[briar24.livejournal.com]

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.

[redbird]

Steve is gorgeous.

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

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

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.