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05-14-2017, 01:55 PM
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My wife received a dyed blue one from the grandkids last year (made me want to gag but she loved it as grandmothers are wont to do). It actually isn't a bad white with nice red lip now that it's rebloomed this year. I might be even nicer that my other white/red lipped Phal. that I've had for years and had bought un-dyed.
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05-14-2017, 02:10 PM
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It doesn't evoque any special feelings to me, good or bad... I just don't buy them.
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05-14-2017, 02:20 PM
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I took a pic the lucky bamboo with fake orchid flowers I saw at walmart but Can't find it.
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05-15-2017, 12:49 PM
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OK, I don't like them but someone must. I'm happy to hear that these plants can survive and re-bloom.
I also didn't like the Chihuly exhibit that came to the Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix)--all that bizarre glass stuff was really distracting from the natural form, color and beauty of the desert plants.
Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should!
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05-15-2017, 01:25 PM
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I was at the DBG recently. At the entrance are some tall Chihuly glass sculptures with lots of long, spiky yellowish-green parts. A visitor from the Midwest asked me what kind of cactus it was. I told him it was a glass sculpture.
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05-15-2017, 07:29 PM
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I took a pic the lucky bamboo with fake orchid flowers I saw at walmart but Can't find it.
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Most of the lucky bamboo I've seen isn't even real bamboo. It's Dracaena.
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05-15-2017, 09:38 PM
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I was at the DBG recently. At the entrance are some tall Chihuly glass sculptures with lots of long, spiky yellowish-green parts. A visitor from the Midwest asked me what kind of cactus it was. I told him it was a glass sculpture.
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That was NOT me.
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05-16-2017, 07:24 AM
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OK, I don't like them but someone must. I'm happy to hear that these plants can survive and re-bloom.
I also didn't like the Chihuly exhibit that came to the Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix)--all that bizarre glass stuff was really distracting from the natural form, color and beauty of the desert plants.
Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should!
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Some might say the artistic statement was in the juxtaposition of the man-made and natural forms. But I can see that Chihuly's work could be jarring in that setting. Nestled among tropical foliage and flowers or in a lush manicured garden would be more effective.
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05-16-2017, 10:01 AM
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Out of curiosity, I bought one of these once. 3 years later, it is a great bloomer, very thick leaves, nice. Here is a picture of my formerly blue-dyed phal.
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05-16-2017, 10:48 AM
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Some might say the artistic statement was in the juxtaposition of the man-made and natural forms. But I can see that Chihuly's work could be jarring in that setting. Nestled among tropical foliage and flowers or in a lush manicured garden would be more effective.
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A lot of people did like the Chihuly exhibits at the Desert Botanical Garden. Attendance during both of them was far higher than other times.
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