If you find an interesting Hoya, I definitely recommend scooping it up. Hoyas are commonly referred to as Wax Plants and are typically grown for their blooms, but their succulent leaves have been found to be quite attractive to many, mainly due to how different they can appear. There is so much to love about Peperomias! They are considered 'tropical succulents', meaning they require small amounts of water, so I find them to be very low maintenance as I don't have to watch over them as often as some of my others. My favorite thing about Peperomias as I collect them is the many differences and similarities I notice between the species, each with their own characteristics that may mimic the traits of another. It’s a genus that is very rich in diversity, currently with over 1500 species.

Basically, my job is all about plants, plants, and more plants!Īmong a few other groups of plants, I tend to gravitate toward the genus Peperomia. On top of that, I am the 'Houseplant Expert,” which of course coincides with the curating aspect, so I help clients and customers select their plants for their space - whether it is just a small plant for a bedroom, or a large array of plants for an office building or lobby. My main purpose is to curate the selection of indoor plants at the store, which is a balance of carrying timeless plants such as Pothos and Spider Plants as well as stocking new, popular plants such as Philodendrons and Peperomias. It should have lasted forever, but Lefty’s obsession with running the town-and Tony’s obsession with Lefty’s beautiful showgirl wife, Geri-eventually led to the betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest debacles in mob history.I am the head buyer at Urban Jungle, a plant shop located in South Philadelphia.

For years, it was the perfect arrangement-Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with their weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. No one knew more about casinos than Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best friend and partner, Anthony Spilotro, virtually ran Las Vegas for the mob.

the shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the neon money-making machine it created: the multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry of Las Vegas. From Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy -the #1 bestseller that became Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award–winning film GoodFellas-comes the brilliantly told true story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge, Mafia-style.

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