African Violets and Gesneriads: My first post to this forum courtesy of gessiegail, 1 by KatyMac

KatyMac wrote:
I received the plants I ordered from gessiegail this afternoon and got them with their little wick drinkers soaking in my kitchen garden window. They are all just lovely and were packaged so carefully it must have taken Gail hours. I think I did one no-no, one of them had it's soil all over the leaves and I rinsed them off without even thinking. Then... I remembered they don't like their leaves wet. I patted each leaf dry with paper towels and apologized abjectly! I hope it's not too disappointed in me. I will do my best by them Gail. I did warn you my track record for house plants is pretty pitiful.