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ECONOMICS I

I didn't mention that I got a beautiful bouquet from my husband for Father's Day.

It was mostly green things but there was some queen anne's lace mixed in.

I grew up with this flower except, when I was a kid in Pennsylvania, it was a weed.

It grew everywhere.

Here we have the law of supply and demand in full flower, so to speak.

When a plant, no matter how lovely, is ubiquitous, no one wants it. It is a weed.

But in a place of scarcity like the deserts of California, which is most of the State, there is no wild queen anne (or even a sedate one) and so the flowers are in short supply.

Bingo!

A dollar a stem in the wholesale market.

I wonder if they were flown here from back east?

I doubt it.

But maybe. They didn't last all that long. Two or three days tops.

Anyway, we enjoyed them and are happy to have had them on our dining room table.

A reminder of the distant past.

Labels: flowers, holidays, horticulture, nostalgia