West Coast Tropical Plant Source

There was a great article in the local Victoria paper today about a tropical plant site in Delta BC. He sells bamboo, bananas, flowering ginger, eucalyptus, succulents, palms, grasses, and ferns. All sorts of stuff. His website has a printable catalogue. Anyone been there???

http://www.tropic.ca/

Glenda

Glenda thanks for the link. Lots of interesting plants and good information there. If only I had an acre or 2.... His place sure looks nice

I wish!!!!!!! ;)

Sure looks interesting. I wonder if any of our North Vancouver gang have been there. If we have an RU in Vancouver some day that'd be one for the list for sure.

Shannon

I ordered some things from him last year - bananas, elephant ears, hibiscus syriacus (sp?) and just sent another small order in last week. He was very good to deal with.
Heather

Heather you will have to post many pictures of your garden this year. You have so many beauties that we would love to see blooming! Ü

Heather, your garden it a beauty already, I'll be drooling over it soon...

Hmm, maybe a midnight raid, I know where you live LOL!... and you can blame it on the deer! ROFL

After checking my garden this morning, I thought you had already been here, Linda. LOL !

twasn't me this time, must've been the real thing. I hope they didn't do too much damage.

There was an article in yesterday's (Sunday) Vancouver Province newspaper about tropicals/bananas and I think it is the same guy mentioned above. Would anyone like me to scan the article for them?
Liz and Sunrize(Dawn) are the resident "trop-pros". Hopefully they will surface soon and give lots of info. and advice!

It's Ray Mattei's place. I've dealt with him for a few years. He's a really nice guy. He had a fire at his greenhouse a few years back and lost a lot of stock. I haven't been to his place but Liz went out one year and picked up some stuff I'd ordered.

Happy Anniversary Jeanne.
I was out to his house and his greenhouse a couple of years ago. He is a nice guy. Drives a bus as a real job. When his greenhouse burned down there was local talk that he was giving up the plant business. He had no insurance on the rental greenhouse and his wife wasn't too keen on having all his customers traipsing through the garden every day. But he got it back together. He's well thought of here in the gardening community.