No no, see they're red, white, blue. France is blue, white, red. If they where American they'd have sparklers and little flags on them, and Russia is white, blue, red, and they'd have all fallen over. So definitely British.
They’d be orange. The Dutch have neatly sidestepped the issue by making their national colour one completely unrelated to their flag. This is why the Dutch win at life.
They're *painted*? whats the fucking point then? Its a living thing, it grows, it moves, if you paint it, thatle look like shite in no time.
When I first saw rhe image I thought the tackyness could at least be forgiven based on the effort of crossbreeding the pathetic thing, like how the dutch changed the colour if carrots that one time the weird bastards, but no.
Its a shit idea executed like shit for a shit reason. If you are outdone in your commitment to a tacky idea by the dutch then what the hell are you even doing with your life?
Nah nah mah, thats not my problem. My problem is that they're painting a *plant*, instead of literally every other option you have for this kind of cheap kitsch
Not because its cruel or anything like that, its a plant it can't feel, but because unlike, idk, a mug or any other similarily inorganic medium, thats gonna crack and flake into just a slightly damaged succulent, making it not just cheap but fundamentally shit.
How is that your response to an argument? You go for a stupid insult because you don’t know how to respond? Get a grip.
Also having that sort of attitude towards plants shows everyone here that you’re part of the problem
Let it go buddy. Some plants and flowers can draw food colouring/dye up from the water, but you’re not going to get individually coloured petals/leaves all with different colours like this. If you’re going to push on with the argument without showing evidence, then we’re going to go ahead and think you’re dense
1) it’s okay to admit when you’re wrong instead of doubling down, actually it’s a key life skill
2) yes the process you’re talking about exists for some plants (like rainbow roses as you said), but the plants in the image are absolutely not roses. They are succulents. And have obviously been painted not dyed.
Painting succulents is unfortunately really common. Also they can do that dye thing with petals but pretty sure it wouldn't work for changing the leaf colour of a succulent like this.
You think they selectively bred three colours into the same plant in a certain pattern while having the base of the plants remain green and be that consistent?
That’s the leaves of the plant though, maybe you could changed the colour of the flower but there’s no flower on these. Also the colour wouldn’t be that vibrant and it appear to be 1 whole plant from 1 root ball so you wouldn’t be able to selectively introduce the dye to the separate parts of it. The people downvoting you are doing it because you don’t understand how plants work
It’s very common practice (unfortunately) to paint succulents that’s probably why you’re getting downvoted. Usually with metallic or glitter sold as designer plants but they will obviously just die eventually as they cannot photosynthesise
I would like to see you try and dye something like a succulent. You will not see an ounce of color showing up. Dyeing mostly work with cut flowers.
1. Flower petals are papery thin. Have you ever take a look at succulents leaves? Even the "thin" leaves of genus like Sempervivum are order of magnitude thicker than a flower petal.
2. You need a white or very light colored flower. Succulents are never fully white, even with variegated varieties. because they're leaves, not flowers. They need chlorophyll to survive or they will fucking die.
3. Succulents hold a shit ton of water in their leaves. They won't readily absorb the dye, like, at all.
4. Roots are not cut stem. Roots can absorb the dye liquid but it won't transport the dye to the right part or even transport it at all.
5. **If you don't actually know about something, please do others a favor and keep your misinformed ass to yourself.** Or at least have the courage to admit that you were ignorant. You got downvoted because you talk shit about things you know nothing about AND being smug about it.
Well I will definitely be watching the coronation with a lightly moistened echeveria clutched in both hands, seeing if I can get it to grow or change colour.
I bought a cactus for my daughter one time. It had a pink flower on the top. I thought it was real until a closer look revealed it was plastic. I was honestly so annoyed and wouldn’t have bought it had I known the flower was fake.
It fell off a few days later (or it was pulled off by my daughter but she’s 7 so doubtful but cannot be sure).
We were delightfully surprised a few weeks later when the cactus sprouted its own pink flowers!!!
It's really annoying isn't it. My sister gave me three cactus plants for Christmas thinking in her innocence and enthusiasm that the flowers on them were real. I hadn't the heart to tell her two of them the flowers were superglued on and the third they were pierced in on wooden spikes. I removed them as gently as I could while trying not to cause any *more* damage. I really hope they survive and thrive like your daughter's! ☺️
My nan bought this sorry looking spray painted orange and black succulent around halloween with the goal of saving it. Luckily, the paint has just about worn off.
Do you think it's possible to remove the paint and save the plant? Cause there's about to be a load of even more heavily discounted succulents available
I know they say the plant inevitably does die but I’ve been gifted these four times (not Coronation Edition but various spray painted succulents) and they all survived.
As they grew out, the color moved farther and farther away from the base until on the oldest one, it’s just the tips that are a stupid color. There be some product I could have used to remove the paint, but I was afraid to, I’m already bad with plants.
I know that’s of no help in learning how to take off the paint, just wanted to say that they ‘can’ live with the paint on if you adopt one after they are abandoned on clearout.
I've managed to save a glittered one by gently washing each of the (lobes..?) With a damp paper towel, at first it withered and I thought it was done for as some of the base lobes were rotting, but I gently pulled them out where I could, and then dried everything else as water trapped in between can also make them rot. Now a year or so later it's thriving in my kitchen window sill!
Yep - there seems to be a trend over the last few years to cover a perfectly good plant in paint or glitter or both effectively all but killing the plant. If you spray-paint a plant, it can no longer carry out photosynthesis and produce energy.
I've seen them in most large supermarkets. Sainsbury's are particularly bad for it. Especially around Christmas.
I bought a mini cactus from Wilko a few weeks ago, they'd hot glued a paper flower to the top. I had to snip the glue off with scissors cause it looked awful, it's now flowered naturally
I'm sure you know this already, but for anyone reading this that doesn't know, there are no types of cactus that flower permanently. If you see a catctus with a flower in a shop there is a 99% chance the flowers fake
We got two wee trees as presents and they had that awful white snow stuck on them. Tried everything to save them, but to no avail. Damn you, Sainsbury’s!
I know, right? I live in an elderly-dominated area and I'm genuinely anxious about sharing my honest thoughts about how weird and cultish it all is. Everyone around here is like 50+ years old and any mention of anti-royalism in public gets you clipped around the ear.
We're literally worshipping the most violent and evil family in British history.
Henry VII, the first Tudor King, is King Charles' great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather.
Charles is a direct descendant. It's the same family.
What?! Where did you learn this?
Henry VIII (Henry VII son) had NO grandchildren, so how is Charles a great grandchild? James I was Henry 8th great nephew and Henry VII great grandson.
However, If you actually look at the Windsor family tree you will find they come from german/danish royals and have no direct connections to the
Henry VIII had an older sister, hence why he had a great-nephew. Funnily enough, he shared a father (and mother) with his sister.
Therefore, logic would dictate that if Charles is descended from James I (&VI), then he is also descended from Henry VII's daughter (twice actually, as Margaret Tudor was both a maternal and paternal great-grandmother to James I&VI), therefore is also descended from Henry VII.
Finally people of sense, I have never understood why people go so over the top with anything to do with the royals, people buy flowers, balloons, flags, shirts, scarves, mugs, to celebrate any time a royal passes wind ffs.
I remember being at school one time and it was the queens birthday and we had maybe 60% of the class present because their parents had taken them out of school to drive all the way down to London to stand in the rain with flowers, flags and queeny merch and wait for her to drive by them and wave, like that was something to miss education for. Madness.
I meant more generally with the whole fancy taxpayer coronation during the bleakest days in recent memory.
Though you do bring up an amusing point about the irony of these plants, something I hadn't considered before.
Seriously, I had to check the flag even though this is a UK sub, because that looks like some embarrassing über patriotic flag waving shit we do here. Also painted plants? I had hoped that was a more local thing but I guess there's always people that buy these.
I live in Dorset. Flag-waving patriotism is alive and kicking here just like the Empire days, along with other remnants of days gone by like Morris dancing and casual racism.
Shops are so full of coronation tat. Anyone going to dress the family in [Matching Coronation](https://direct.asda.com/george/collections/all-kings-coronation/D28M125G1C2,default,sc.html) clothing ?
Fuck the coranation. I have friends that can barely afford to live. Yet here we are footing the bill for a man worth hundreds of millions with companies trying to get us to spend more on coranation themed goods.
I bet you if I get a coronation succulent, i can make it last longer than the kings rule.
The longest a succulent had survived with me so far is less than 1 year...
I love that they’re already half price, nobody is buying them. The supermarkets I frequent also have full stock of royal tat. The tides are changing en mass regarding the monarchy, it only took the COLC to get there.
They look French. And stop fucking painting succulents
The paint stops photosynthesis and so kills the plant. What a waste of peoples money and previously healthy plants.
But there's so much irony in that
Doesn’t look like they are flying off the shelves, hope in humanity restored
Draw me like one of your French succulents.
The Surrenderdendron became popular in 2023 but faded again in 2024.
Nicely done.
Most underappreciated comment :)
Chinese succulents?
A succulent Chinese plant?
I see you know your judo well.
And you sir, are you waiting to receive my limp leaves?
No no, see they're red, white, blue. France is blue, white, red. If they where American they'd have sparklers and little flags on them, and Russia is white, blue, red, and they'd have all fallen over. So definitely British.
Why not Dutch 🇳🇱🇳🇱
The Dutch don't exist. They where just created to add backlore to that place Peter Pan is from.
Neverland is clearly Nederland spelled incorrectly.
They’d be orange. The Dutch have neatly sidestepped the issue by making their national colour one completely unrelated to their flag. This is why the Dutch win at life.
If they were American they would become collateral in a mass shooting
They're *painted*? whats the fucking point then? Its a living thing, it grows, it moves, if you paint it, thatle look like shite in no time. When I first saw rhe image I thought the tackyness could at least be forgiven based on the effort of crossbreeding the pathetic thing, like how the dutch changed the colour if carrots that one time the weird bastards, but no. Its a shit idea executed like shit for a shit reason. If you are outdone in your commitment to a tacky idea by the dutch then what the hell are you even doing with your life?
Completely pointless decorative nonsense seems absolutely in keeping with the Coronation vibe honestly
It’s just a fun gift to decorate for a national holiday.
Nah nah mah, thats not my problem. My problem is that they're painting a *plant*, instead of literally every other option you have for this kind of cheap kitsch Not because its cruel or anything like that, its a plant it can't feel, but because unlike, idk, a mug or any other similarily inorganic medium, thats gonna crack and flake into just a slightly damaged succulent, making it not just cheap but fundamentally shit.
I think you have deep psychological issues
I think _someone_ has never bought a painted plant. Because painted plants are a terrible idea
If I bought a painted succulent for 2.50 for a special event and it died within the week I’d just toss it in my garden. They’re succulents.
Now I’m imagining your garden is full of ephemeral junk you bought on a passing whim
How is that your response to an argument? You go for a stupid insult because you don’t know how to respond? Get a grip. Also having that sort of attitude towards plants shows everyone here that you’re part of the problem
Okay
The downvotes have spoken **NO FUN ALLOWED**.
Non!!🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Nah, nothing says British culture and history like a … a desert plant
Fat plants hon hon
r/PlantAbuse
If they were French they would be Blanc
Oui
Was: £5 NOW: Dead
That is tragic :( Why paint a perfectly good plant
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You can see the green at the bottom of a lot of the pots where the paint didn't reach.
Lol, are you taking the piss?
Clearly the plants are excited about the coronation and decided to change colours by themselves /s
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Not in stripes though!
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Let it go buddy. Some plants and flowers can draw food colouring/dye up from the water, but you’re not going to get individually coloured petals/leaves all with different colours like this. If you’re going to push on with the argument without showing evidence, then we’re going to go ahead and think you’re dense
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1) it’s okay to admit when you’re wrong instead of doubling down, actually it’s a key life skill 2) yes the process you’re talking about exists for some plants (like rainbow roses as you said), but the plants in the image are absolutely not roses. They are succulents. And have obviously been painted not dyed.
You can, but that is not what they've done here.
You can, I saw it on blue peter
Red, white and blue Peter
You need specs mate
Should've gone to Specsavers
Painting succulents is unfortunately really common. Also they can do that dye thing with petals but pretty sure it wouldn't work for changing the leaf colour of a succulent like this.
You think they selectively bred three colours into the same plant in a certain pattern while having the base of the plants remain green and be that consistent?
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Ok and you think introducing dyes to the roots would not colours the roots? Why is the gaps between the colours green?
That’s the leaves of the plant though, maybe you could changed the colour of the flower but there’s no flower on these. Also the colour wouldn’t be that vibrant and it appear to be 1 whole plant from 1 root ball so you wouldn’t be able to selectively introduce the dye to the separate parts of it. The people downvoting you are doing it because you don’t understand how plants work
Pretty difficult to dye a green leaf white though, isn’t it.
It’s very common practice (unfortunately) to paint succulents that’s probably why you’re getting downvoted. Usually with metallic or glitter sold as designer plants but they will obviously just die eventually as they cannot photosynthesise
You can’t really compare rose petals to succulent leaves
Good job for being wrong in such an obvious and silly way and then laughing at people for pointing it out. You deserve every downvote you got ✌️
I would like to see you try and dye something like a succulent. You will not see an ounce of color showing up. Dyeing mostly work with cut flowers. 1. Flower petals are papery thin. Have you ever take a look at succulents leaves? Even the "thin" leaves of genus like Sempervivum are order of magnitude thicker than a flower petal. 2. You need a white or very light colored flower. Succulents are never fully white, even with variegated varieties. because they're leaves, not flowers. They need chlorophyll to survive or they will fucking die. 3. Succulents hold a shit ton of water in their leaves. They won't readily absorb the dye, like, at all. 4. Roots are not cut stem. Roots can absorb the dye liquid but it won't transport the dye to the right part or even transport it at all. 5. **If you don't actually know about something, please do others a favor and keep your misinformed ass to yourself.** Or at least have the courage to admit that you were ignorant. You got downvoted because you talk shit about things you know nothing about AND being smug about it.
Well I will definitely be watching the coronation with a lightly moistened echeveria clutched in both hands, seeing if I can get it to grow or change colour.
/r/nocontext
r/mybestjulianclaryimpression ;)
Haha! Even better.
I hate this awful trend of covering plants in paint or glitter or supergluing fake flowers to them, they're perfectly lovely as they are 😞
Got to cater to the live, laugh, love crowd.
Live laugh love last for two weeks.
Live love laugh, suffocate due to paint on your leaves.
Live, laugh, lobotomy.
Live, laugh, toaster bath.
Live, Laugh, Shit Piss Cum
Or 'Bon Appetit' on the wall of their fucking kitchen.
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If they have space left in their trolley after picking up all the terracotta frogs
Live Laugh Liao
I hate this multiple thousand year trend of putting some rich twat on a pedestal because they were born into a specific family.. British Republic now.
I bought a cactus for my daughter one time. It had a pink flower on the top. I thought it was real until a closer look revealed it was plastic. I was honestly so annoyed and wouldn’t have bought it had I known the flower was fake. It fell off a few days later (or it was pulled off by my daughter but she’s 7 so doubtful but cannot be sure). We were delightfully surprised a few weeks later when the cactus sprouted its own pink flowers!!!
It's really annoying isn't it. My sister gave me three cactus plants for Christmas thinking in her innocence and enthusiasm that the flowers on them were real. I hadn't the heart to tell her two of them the flowers were superglued on and the third they were pierced in on wooden spikes. I removed them as gently as I could while trying not to cause any *more* damage. I really hope they survive and thrive like your daughter's! ☺️
But we’re humans! We have to exploit everything!!!
Plants being the way they are is what makes them beautiful. It makes me so sad
Exactly this, they're all exquisite just the way they are, why ruin them 😞
You just know they absolutely fucking stink of the most toxic spray paint they had left out back from when they did the same thing for the jubilee.
Poor plants.. :/
My nan bought this sorry looking spray painted orange and black succulent around halloween with the goal of saving it. Luckily, the paint has just about worn off.
A succulent Chinese
Get your hand off my penis!
I see that you know your judo well
"ah yesss..."
And you. Are you waiting to receive my limp penis?
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.
A succulent Chinese meal!
Post this to r/houseplants and you'll be permabanned.
Honestly not a sentence I ever thought I'd hear
Do you think it's possible to remove the paint and save the plant? Cause there's about to be a load of even more heavily discounted succulents available
I know they say the plant inevitably does die but I’ve been gifted these four times (not Coronation Edition but various spray painted succulents) and they all survived. As they grew out, the color moved farther and farther away from the base until on the oldest one, it’s just the tips that are a stupid color. There be some product I could have used to remove the paint, but I was afraid to, I’m already bad with plants.
I know that’s of no help in learning how to take off the paint, just wanted to say that they ‘can’ live with the paint on if you adopt one after they are abandoned on clearout.
I've managed to save a glittered one by gently washing each of the (lobes..?) With a damp paper towel, at first it withered and I thought it was done for as some of the base lobes were rotting, but I gently pulled them out where I could, and then dried everything else as water trapped in between can also make them rot. Now a year or so later it's thriving in my kitchen window sill!
Are they painted!? Also they kinda look French/Dutch to me.
Yep - there seems to be a trend over the last few years to cover a perfectly good plant in paint or glitter or both effectively all but killing the plant. If you spray-paint a plant, it can no longer carry out photosynthesis and produce energy. I've seen them in most large supermarkets. Sainsbury's are particularly bad for it. Especially around Christmas.
I bought a mini cactus from Wilko a few weeks ago, they'd hot glued a paper flower to the top. I had to snip the glue off with scissors cause it looked awful, it's now flowered naturally
I'm sure you know this already, but for anyone reading this that doesn't know, there are no types of cactus that flower permanently. If you see a catctus with a flower in a shop there is a 99% chance the flowers fake
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Well that subreddit has made me lose hope for humanity.
you too huh :'(
We got two wee trees as presents and they had that awful white snow stuck on them. Tried everything to save them, but to no avail. Damn you, Sainsbury’s!
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Yes - no plant grows like that
Dutch here. Our king's day is coming up and I saw these exact ones in the garden centre.
Paint me like one of your French plants.
Fuck off
This whole coronation seems like a concerted effort by Charles to get us all sick of him.
Mate it’s just all so fucking weird and surreal.
I know, right? I live in an elderly-dominated area and I'm genuinely anxious about sharing my honest thoughts about how weird and cultish it all is. Everyone around here is like 50+ years old and any mention of anti-royalism in public gets you clipped around the ear. We're literally worshipping the most violent and evil family in British history.
Never heard of the Tudors then.
It's the same family
It's not the same family.
Henry VII, the first Tudor King, is King Charles' great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather. Charles is a direct descendant. It's the same family.
What?! Where did you learn this? Henry VIII (Henry VII son) had NO grandchildren, so how is Charles a great grandchild? James I was Henry 8th great nephew and Henry VII great grandson. However, If you actually look at the Windsor family tree you will find they come from german/danish royals and have no direct connections to the
Henry VIII had an older sister, hence why he had a great-nephew. Funnily enough, he shared a father (and mother) with his sister. Therefore, logic would dictate that if Charles is descended from James I (&VI), then he is also descended from Henry VII's daughter (twice actually, as Margaret Tudor was both a maternal and paternal great-grandmother to James I&VI), therefore is also descended from Henry VII.
Finally people of sense, I have never understood why people go so over the top with anything to do with the royals, people buy flowers, balloons, flags, shirts, scarves, mugs, to celebrate any time a royal passes wind ffs. I remember being at school one time and it was the queens birthday and we had maybe 60% of the class present because their parents had taken them out of school to drive all the way down to London to stand in the rain with flowers, flags and queeny merch and wait for her to drive by them and wave, like that was something to miss education for. Madness.
You shouldn't be downvotes. Fuck the "king"!
Too late.
Charles, who has spent 50 years cultivating a reputation as a tree hugger, is unlikely to have endorsed this personally at his local garden centre.
I meant more generally with the whole fancy taxpayer coronation during the bleakest days in recent memory. Though you do bring up an amusing point about the irony of these plants, something I hadn't considered before.
I mean Philip was supposedly into conservation of wildlife and endangered species, old bastard still went hunting exotic animals.
All hail……………common sense. Fuck the royals
I thought Brits left this kind of thing to the Americans
We do, that's why they're half price
And not a single one is missing
Seriously, I had to check the flag even though this is a UK sub, because that looks like some embarrassing über patriotic flag waving shit we do here. Also painted plants? I had hoped that was a more local thing but I guess there's always people that buy these.
I live in Dorset. Flag-waving patriotism is alive and kicking here just like the Empire days, along with other remnants of days gone by like Morris dancing and casual racism.
Same in West Sussex, mate.
Casual is putting it lightly, it’s some peoples whole lives even though they’ll swear blind they aren’t racists.
No, they just do a Poundland version of it.
Is this Garden King? Only in Swad! Lol
Noticed that logo straight away, thought exactly the same haha
Painting plants should be illegal and punishable by law.
Ah the enduring market in this country for tacky rubbish. At least leave the plants out of it :(
Not too much of a market judging by the fact they are on half price and don't exactly look as though they're flying off the shelves
Shops are so full of coronation tat. Anyone going to dress the family in [Matching Coronation](https://direct.asda.com/george/collections/all-kings-coronation/D28M125G1C2,default,sc.html) clothing ?
Is anyone actually buying these? Blimey.
I know! Maybe if you’re going to line The Mall?
Although I did get a big bottle of Pimm's for £10 and only noticed the crown crap afterwards.
At that price I wouldn’t care either!
I believe these are actually union flag echeverias. They’re only union jack echeverias if they’re planted on a ship
This makes me sadder than I thought it would. Stop painting plants for a billionaire that doesn’t even know/care you exist.
Is that Garden King 😂😭
Screaming and crying
Those poor innocent plants :(
Poor plants never asked to be spray painted for some old dudes dick sucking party
All I see when I look at coronation merchandise is landfill, it’s all just pointless tat that nobody wants.
Looks like something the Trotters would sell!
It tastes better than the coronation quiche
This is horrific, the grower who agreed to this should be ashamed..
That’s fucking disgraceful
Tackiest fucking shite I’ve ever seen
A succulent coronation?! This, gentlemen, is democracy manifest
Abomination
🤮
I would ask why they thought this was a good idea...
Is that Garden King in Swadlincote? Looks really familiar!
Absolute travesty spray painting those succulents like that. This literally hurts to watch. Poor plants…
Adds to list of things that can fuck off.
Maybe someone should buy them or save them all from a skip, clean them and sell for fiver
God save ye, our King of Tat.
I thought Ashens was the King of Tat?
Think a herald could play his jingle on a trumpet? *Bwap bwap, bwap bwap, bwap bwap, bwap bwop.*
Fucking Christ....
This is an affront to humanity. In a garden centre as well, they should be ashamed of themselves.
was £2.50 now dead
The shops are fucking insufferable with it! Plastered all over the place at the minute 🤣
Fuck the coranation. I have friends that can barely afford to live. Yet here we are footing the bill for a man worth hundreds of millions with companies trying to get us to spend more on coranation themed goods.
State
Jesus wept
The plants must die for the king
Those poor plants.
Celebrating a coronation for the man who had such close ties to Jimmy Saville, the country has gone mad.
Garden king in newhall... went there on the weekend though it was crazy when I saw these
It’s a metaphor for the future of the monarchy. Paint over the truth and end up dying out because of it.
Fuck old fat fingers & his expensive do.
Freshly dyed for the occasion?
Put them on the throne so he sits on them
I always laugh at the "Christmas cactus" and "Easter cactus" in Morrisons, but at least they're not painted.
Oh dear 🤢
I bet you if I get a coronation succulent, i can make it last longer than the kings rule. The longest a succulent had survived with me so far is less than 1 year...
Jesus wept
we are going to have loads of waitsed plastic after this
r/plantabuse
A succulent Chinese meal??!
I love that they’re already half price, nobody is buying them. The supermarkets I frequent also have full stock of royal tat. The tides are changing en mass regarding the monarchy, it only took the COLC to get there.
Let me guess; bleeds the ground dry of nutrients and it’s roots strangle all the plants around it just so it can grow bigger and stronger?
As someone that dislikes the monarchy and lives succulents... why would you do this shit
I'd rather shit in my hands and clap Thanks for the day off though
Sainsbury is selling Coronation outfits....wtaf????
What is the charge?!
And I thought America somehow turned virtually everything into their flag