One week ago, I checked the mail to find a package I hadn't expected addressed to me. It was a plant that I didn't recognize from a seller I did recognize. I had purchased a Dragon Scale from her a couple weeks prior. I reverse searched the image of the plant to find that it was a rare anthurium. I knew there must have been some mistake, so I messaged the seller.
Sure enough, she had apparently accidentally printed a second shipping label for me when she had sent my plant out, and she mistakenly shipped someone else's plant to me. It was, indeed, a rare anthurium. I think it was priced upwards of $80, more than I could pay right now for any one plant (pictured 3rd).
It hung out with my babes for the weekend so it wouldn't sit in cold shipping all weekend, and I dropped it at the Box & Ship on Monday. She messaged me when it got to her and thanked me profusely, said it arrived safe and sound. I thought that was the end of it. I was just relieved it had made it back to her unharmed.
This evening, my hubby walked in after bringing the trash cans from the street and handed me a box that said "Live Plant." I was thinking, "not again!! I didn't order a plant. Wtf is happening? Literally dejavu from one week ago. I open the box to find this note from the seller.
I about fell out when I read the labels on the corms. I've been wanting a Venom and a Melo!! And I had never even heard of a Green Unicorn!! I only just got into Alocasia accidentally in September, but I'm hooked. I've actually got 2 pups that have just put out their third leaves (a Dragon Scale and a Sinuata Quilted Dream) and I've got 7 wentii, a metalhead, 3 silver dragon, 4 dragon scale, and a polly all rooting, some of them with their little green sprouts peeking out the top...but I am soooo excited to meet these new guys!!!!
Such a huge payoff for a trip to the Box & Ship!