This is not a new idea, but as my knowledge grows of horticulture and the impact is has on the average joe, I am starting to see a new group emerging from normal society. I will call these people "Desperate Horticulturalists". We all know one, or have once spoken to one, they are the people that say they are really into plants and horticulture, but the reality is that it is all in their head. Secretly they have a very small garden usually consisting of a few pot plants, which they know nothing about. Without this one or two plants in their life, they do not feel complete. I can understand the people that can't afford a garden or live in apartments and have to 'green up' their small existances with a balcony of random herbs and the most common a strappy, wilting cordiline.
But these people try to deceive the common house guest, by puting green things outside a window, to trick them into thinking that, even though they came into the apartment or house from a cement forest, that the rear or the window leads to a lush, exotic rainforest.
I guess they are trying, but who are they really fooling?
