Ohio Greenhouse Helps Out ‘CSI: NY’
October 21, 2008 Alan Hirt of Hirt’s Gardens in Medina, Ohio, is accustomed to getting phone calls from people looking for hard-to-find plants. But when the producers of “CSI: NY” called with a plant request, well, that was a new one.
The producers were seeking several Mimosa pudica–”the sensitive plant”–to feature in the Sept. 24 season premiere of the show, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. The show producers tracked down the plant at Hirt’s website.
The plant is nicknamed “the sensitive plant” because when touched, its leaves coyly close inward and droop, and then reopen within minutes.
“They were looking for this flower because it figured into the plot,” Hirt says. “It had been found at a crime scene, or something like that. We are one of the few greenhouses that grow and sell this very unusual plant.”
Hirt admits he doesn’t watch “CSI: NY,” but he caught the episode online. “I just watched the part that has the plant,” he says.
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