Property News · April 3, 2022

Are you ready to ‘plant-flex’?


Showing off your expensive houseplants on social media is the latest thing in blingIt seems I have got to that awkward age when I am simultaneously old enough to recoil from the new vocabulary of hipster-speak, yet still young enough to know that within a week or so I will find myself using it. The whole raft of new, often colourful gardening terminology that has accompanied the sudden influx of younger and more diverse voices into horticultural media, largely thanks to platforms such as Instagram, fascinates me. My favourite term is one I learned only yesterday from my suitably bearded and tattooed Instagram buddy @botanicalotter: plant-flexing.Adapted from 90s US rapper slang, to “plant-flex” is the horticultural version of performatively displaying one’s wealth via the use of status symbols – in this case the status symbol might be something like a variegated monstera. The idea that a humble houseplant can now be equated to a sports car or fat wad of cash might seem surprising, but single leaf nodes of some must-have species now sell for tens of thousands of pounds on online auction sites. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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