On a recent trip to an unnamed nursery, I was granted backstage access to a secret room with plants owned by several luminaries. The manager generously gifted me an aloe vera cutting from a plant that belonged to Jim Morrison (before I knew you couldn’t propagate aloe vera from leaf cuttings).

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My mind started racing, is there an underground market for famous plants?

Toni Morrison’s Bluest (English) Ivy?

Kali Uchis’ Calathea?

ZZ Top’s…...philodendron?

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Has anyone heard or read anything about well-known people and their plants? I’m fascinated and would love to hear any anecdotes. Thanks in advance!

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(P.S. My once a-Doors-able aloe vera leaf cutting has predictably withered in the soil in which I planted her, but I loved her madly in the time she was in my home. Here she is in her hey day)