might want to ck out this link...(may be available other places i don't know)..but they have pics of the optimaras
http://www.buyafricanviolets.com/leaves.php
buyafricanviolets.com.....expensive leaves but good pics
think that the one they call pamela..(which is sold out)....looks like. one of the 4 i posted recently
or maybe even south dakota..as they look similar
Bob
I looked around and Selective Gardners sells their leaves for two for $ 6.00
When the link above Sells one Leaf for $ 7.50
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Selective Gardner all in our sticky !
http://www.floriculture.net/selectivegardener/optimara.cfm?x_cartid=746142262AgFJ655741787
That is where I got my Annabells from the new Southern Bells Series ! It's exclusive to them and I'm pretty sure they are part of Optimara. The owners last name is Holtkamp !
My Annabells leaves that you can only get threw them are $ 9.00 a set I love my plant. It's on SPecial now !
I have thought of buying a few ones I really want like some of the little's and variegated ones.
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When I joined a local Av group the group started in 1955 and had a lot of ong time growers. A guy there had given me a lot of Silverglades they were beautiful ! He oftered me them all I was stupid. Ok to make the story short one of the long time growers came to my house to visit. I did not have much of any plants and if I had a few leaves down that was it . lol I had no light stands. I always remeber her putting down the Silverglade plants all in bloom given to me. She said I hate these Silverglades they remind me of Optimara plants they are all dull , look the same, plain walmart plants I would never gorw them. lol I was new and did not know what to say so I said nothing.
I find Optimara's named plants one of the hardest to get a hold of. They are the easiet to progate, grow and always blooming ! Their good for the novice grower and the long time grower. I would much rather pay the cost of Selective Gardners and buy blooming good size plants like my Annabelle and buy their leaves all at a low shipping cost and get 100 percent guarantee on healthy blooming plants then bid high just to get a tiny plant that may be in poor condition when it arrive to your door, or too small for the general novice or anyone to keep a live. You pay the high shipping and they may refund plant money but your out of the high cost shipping with nothing to own . Or you can pay buyerto get another tiny plantlet shipped . What if that plant is the same way fallen out of the pot covered with dirt , no roots. lol Then your our of two high shipping and have nothing.
I have learned that Optimara are excellent plants ! Excellent for anyone to grow . And I plan on buying some more Miniatures, hope to see more of the new Southern Bells series !, and leaves from Optimara Selective Gardners.
Now I do wish they did not pay growers to mass grow them unamed by seed and leaf and wish they named them all ..but I guess we will just have to live with it in order to get beautiful growing blooming plants !
My two cents worth . lol
allison...that certainly was a good 2cents worth.....appreciate the insights very much
Thanks Bob I also say be careful what you say to new growers. Look how they talked to me if you owned an Optimara it was low class, from the getto lol Could you only imagine me living in my little trailer lol . Made me afraid to buy an Optimara. Now look people pay large $$
to buy named one ! And I love them :))
he he well Allison..i have never cared what other people thought...i have always done what i felt like doing....i left the "joneses"...far behind long ago....now the Joneses" can keep up with me...lol
Bob I have a 'New Mexico' I grew by leaf ! Would you enjoy it :))
I had a couple Opt. Tennessee I sent them to people in their boxes who live in Tennessee !
I have a couple of the littles I've sent to people . One leaf gives many babies.
I also grew Rhapsodie Clementine I grew by leaf I sent to April in her box as it was on her wish list !
They progate and grow super well !
The two little I have and got many of them have given them to so many people the.
Optimara Little Amethyst (6937) 11/19/1988 (Holtkamp) Semidouble-double purple-red/thin white edge. Black-green, ovate, pointed, hairy, glossy, serrated/purple-red back. Miniature
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Optimara Little Rhodonite (7494) 02/09/1991 (Holtkamp) Single-semidouble pink/darker center. Medium green, plain, heart-shaped, hairy. Miniature
allison...gosh you have so many...i just can't imagine how i could keep up with them the way you do...you must be very organized..which i am not.....lol...it IS interesting to read about the history of Holtkamp and now his son wolfgang..