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The other day I was at this party, and the house it was held at was her parents' house. The mom is this crazy-insane awesome gardener, who has had her importer's license for over a decade. She has these gorgeous, well-established plants growing there that are only recently available here. Her gardens have been pictured in some of my favorite garden-geek media, so I kept having moments of things looking familiar. So the daughter, also a hort-head, was showing me and some other folks around. It made me no end of happy to wander around and see all these beautiful specimens, and chat with people about the benefits of this, that or the other variety of plant. It's so rare to meet people who're that thoroughly geeky about plants. It's a bit bittersweet that thi- also means I'm getting offered cuttings of things that there's no way I can grow at my little troll-hole apartment, but oh well. Some day, balcony.