Late last year I kind of dismissed the Woolly Vagabond — an eco-friendly, plant-toting purse — as an imaginative but impractical accessory. While the purse could certainly let your plant “accompany you to the museum, on picnics and out to dinner,” as described by the green-minded product maker, I just didn’t see eco-fashionistas carrying around plants the way Hollywood celebs carry little dogs.

Now, I’m eating my words because a museum has sent out an invitation specifically to plant-toters.

The Hammer Museum invites your favorite plant to a Houseplant Vacation — a “cultural retreat for plants.” This month-long green holiday will pamper your plant as it’s never been pampered before. Not only will the lucky plants get to hang out on a light-flooded terrace, they’ll get their portrait photograph taken, experience “psychic plant healing,” learn some cultural plant history, and take in readings, performances, and musical events every Saturday.

Whose whimsical green idea is this? That would be Machine Project, the artsy L.A. nonprofit that’s collaborated with fruit foraging artist collective Fallen Fruit for Public Fruit Jams and encouraged mushroom foraging with FungiFest, among other green-leaning projects. Machine Project’s currently the Public Engagement Artist in Residence at the Hammer.

Want to get your plant pampered? Drop off your plant this Saturday, July 31, between 11 am and 6 pm. Hammer requests only healthy plants — “this is a vacation, not rehab,” notes the press release — and requires that you sign a one-page release waiver (PDF) agreeing not to hold the Hammer responsible “if my plant/s gets sick, is overserved, pollinates another plant, disappears in plant napping or otherwise, or if my plant/s enters into any other oral or written contracts while on Houseplant Vacation.”

Check out the full schedule of plant activities, RSVP for your plant to plantvacation@machineproject.com then carry your plant in your Woolly Vagabond to the Hammer this Saturday. Remember to pick your plant back up on Sun., Aug. 29 between 11 am to 6 pm, or else the Hammer will have the right “to employ or release into the wild” your best green friend.

Photo via Woolly Pocket

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