Male: Well, you know, there is a whole group of plants, the alpines in desert plants. That I think are often over looked. I am here with Rex Smurfit, now Rex.
Rex: Yes, sir.
Male: You have got a great collection of neat little plants here. Can we go over a couple of these?
Rex: Certainly.
Male: Now, I have to pick up this one first of all, this one is unique, what is this?
Rex: Now, what did you call it?
Male: I call it a spider plant.
Rex: Nice, I said you were close. It is a simple vibe of them that came from the mountains of Turkey and it is called octopodes, simplevidum octopodes and it is not hard to see why.
Male: No, not at all.
Rex: And this little stolones produce little offsets, little babies.
Male: Okay, is it flower though?
Rex: Yes, it has a little short flowers with pink flowers on short stems.
Male: Now, you got this now, I think you mentioned this one was very unique.
Rex: That one is ten years old and it is a little north Daphne from the mountains of Northern Italy and it lives in crevices in the Limestone Rock.
Male: Okay.
Rex: And then they are very old and then they are very slow growing and you see this one, is has gone to be full of bloom. Now, when that flower is about another week or so, it sense this whole structure.
Male: I was going to ask you about that if it was like the standard Daphne.
Rex: Beautiful scent.
Male: I guess that is how it is going to attract the insects and very touch bushes.
Rex: Well, they have a short life, you know short season from waking up to setting seed in winter, six weeks maybe. So, they have to get along with it.
Male: Very beautiful. Now, what is this that you have gone on the rock here?
Rex: That is a Saxifraga from Europe, from the mountains of Europe and again Saxifraga is the sexiest rock and the work fraga is break, and I say they do not actually break the rock. They live in a little fishes and crevices and the roots kind of trait into the rock.
Male: Interesting, and again flowers stem---
Rex: This is coming up to flower, has it again, that will be white flowers on this mahogany red stems that is very attractive.
Male: How do you get in to set in stone like this?
Rex: There you start on white, that is the perfect example. This is a little plant from Wyoming, the mountains of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, it is called the petro-python which is related to this virus.
Male: Really?
Rex: Yes, that is why I started this as seedlings that I braced this year, you will see that that is not like this.
Male: Oh, okay I mean just put it in a little---
Rex: In the little holes in that piece and hopefully it will be like this eventually.
Male: I know, I got to see this one, this one looks really nice.
Rex: That is a quite an uncommon plant but after three years, this comes from the deserts of Nevada, it is called the--- what did I call it this morning? And in the desert, they make this huge map that you can literally walk on. It is so hot and tight. For else, it is a little hard to achieve when it is a little soft.
Male: Well Rex, you have really given us a great little--- I guess you could call it sampler as some of the desert plants on the outline plants. Can we come back in a little while?
Rex: Certainly, let us do it.
Male: Great.
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