How Green was my Thumb

Tessa is always out there in search of the perfect garden. Not an easy thing but we persist. We are homestead people so prim reduction is priority number one. And we really had to do something about our dependence on four prim cycads to fill out those empty spots in the garden bed. Just won't do to dedicate 300 prims to landfill when they could be so much better used for intimate poseballs.
Which was what led us to Maria's Garden Center.
Owner mariarowena Mayo claims to have "The biggest collection of 1 Prim Plants, 1 Prim Trees 1 Prim Flowers 1 Prim Tropicals". Also on offer is "Gothic Aquarium" - ewe! black sharks with blood dribbling down their cheeks? and Gorean Food. We don't claim to be experts on the ways of Gor but we had always cherished the illusion that they ate each other.
We quickly found our cycad and it was terrific. Much more realistic than our previous one although a real cycad tends to slightly squatter than the one we got (except in sprouting season of course). We tried to fix this by fiddling with the z axis but it just looked distorted. But all in all it was more than acceptable.

Then we went a little nutty. We bought several one primmers, a hibiscus which has now been converted into a hedge, a bromeliad (Tessa LOVES bromeliads) a sunflower, a sago plam and even a money tree just like the one that Tess's pilot has in RL.

Wow!
In a moment of folly I even bought a beehive which emits terrifying clouds of bees. No stings as yet.
Off-prim islands and mountains seem to be the landscaping thing of the moment and Maria has plenty, replete with appropriately seething waters and crashing waves. A castle wouldn't be a castle without one. Tess's sim is sadly littered with such items so she declined the opportunity to buy. But there were some interesting ones there including an enormous iceberg for only L$600. Tess had visions of Cap'n Jack Aubrey chasing through the Roaring Forties and once more walked away.
No wonder the Naiman guy, who is always bemoaning his fate, gets pissed. Still, it works in fashion and any other field of human endeavor. If you've worked out how to do something, so can everybody else. This brings prices down and guess who benefits? Yes, everybody.
A word about one prim plants. They're getting better all the time but am I alone in thinking that it's hard to beat the more conventional multi prim versions with flex. But the prims...................
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