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Help me Locate this Plant - Hydroponics Ahoy!

SquashuaSquashua __BANNED USERS regular
edited March 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
No Mary Jane here.

I was in a hoity-toity furniture store a couple weeks back. Very "modern" furniture.

One of the constant decorations that adorned the shelves was some sort of water-based plant. Basically, they had decorated a lot of store with various clear vases with different loops, and in these water-filled vases were plants. Very pretty plants.

I'd like to locate said plants (probably not available at the local Home Depot or Lowes) and decorate my home with them.

I tried to ask a couple of salespeople about the plants, but they were very stupid and not only did they say I was the first person to ever ask them about the plants over the couple of years they've been open, they had no idea what the plants were.

Any suggestions?

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Bamboo, maybe? It can grow in water, and you mentioned "loops", which reminds me of some of the shaped bamboo plants I've seen. The link has a picture of one that's been shaped into a helix.

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  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Pictures of the plants in question would be extremely helpful if possible.

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  • SquashuaSquashua __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    I know. I didn't think to use the pic thing on my camera and the place is down in freaking Miami. It didn't look like bamboo.

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Some kind of description of the plants would be good.

    Size of plants
    Size of leaves
    Texture of leaves
    Color of Leaves
    Color/texture/thickness of Stem
    etc.

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Were they alive? Do you know if they were actually living in the vase, or were they simply cut and regularly replaced?

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  • SquashuaSquashua __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    There were way too many of them to be regularly cut and replaced. Additionally, the roots had grown substantially.

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  • GafotoGafoto Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    We need more info about the plants, they could be just about any kind of plant.

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  • Bliss 101Bliss 101 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I suggest you send the store an e-mail or call them and try to get in touch with whoever is responsible for buying and taking care of those plants. Someone in that store has to know what they are.

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  • SquashuaSquashua __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    I'll go down and check it out as soon as I can. Which might be months. :|

    Meanwhile, anyone have a good link to a page that lists plants that might be grown indoors using only water (and possibly light chemicals) that don't require soil?

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