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| Does anyone know of a Denver/surrounding area (Boulder, Longmont, Co. Springs) nursery that has a good selection of tropical annuals? I'm particularly looking for variegated tapioca (Manihot esculenta 'Variegata') and variegated shell ginger (Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata'), maybe some banana plants and/or cannas too. I can order online but would love to find a local source if possible.
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| Hi Amy, It's nice to see you around here again! Call Paulino's. I don't know if they have the exact things you're looking for, but they do have a very large selection of tropicals. (You might just want to go and look around. It's a great place to walk around in in winter!) Gotta go. I have to get ready for a trip, and I'm not movin' too fast. I'm getting over pneumonia! Can't go too long without some kind of a catastrophe! ;-) Hope you find what you're looking for, |
Here is a link that might be useful: Paulino's
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| Please feel better soon - I can't imagine doing your job whilst under the weather...hope you're on the mend! Thanks for the heads up, I will definitely head up there - I trust your good opinion enough to make the drive. :) Take care! |
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| Amy- I made the venture up to Paulino's as a treat on my birthday last year (Feb 28) based on Skybird's recommendations and it was so much fun Im going back again this year. It was my last stop in a tour of Denver nurseries and by far the best. Skybird- |
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| Jill, Except for a black and blue butt where I got a mega shot of antibiotic 11 days ago, I’m doing fine! I think maybe the chicken soup I made helped as much as all the antibiotics! Maybe!!! Got back from a 3-day last nite and was so exhausted I slept for 10 hours! My eyes are open again today!!! I’m glad to hear things are going better for you again. Hope to see more of you around here if you have time. And I hope to see both of you at at least one of the swaps this year. It’s been a while since we’ve seen you at one of them Amy. Amy, let us know if you found what you were looking for if you get over to Paulino’s—or maybe something else you decide you like. I don’t recognize either of the names you posted, but then I never really worked inside with the tropicals very often—and they’ve enlarged the greenhouses and added more houseplants since I left there anyway. If you get over there, since you’re looking for something very specific, ask for Mimi (Paulino). She buys all the tropicals and knows exactly what’s there! I will add one word of caution! With our low humidity out here, a lot of tropicals don’t do very well. At the garden center where I worked before Paulino’s I worked inside with the house plants most of the winter and they had a ginger—no idea if it’s similar to what you’re looking for—but I spent a couple days one time trimming all the brown tips off because they weren’t selling. After I got them cleaned up they were put on sale and we got rid of most of them, but this was in an environment with higher humidity than most places out here, and they still didn’t do well, so be sure it’s something that’s worth spending the money on before you get it. And, I would kind of think they’d have banana plants, but do you realize how BIG those things get? And I don’t know if they have cannas in winter, but they’ll have plenty of them by the time they start selling the bedding plants—and they may have the bulbs (is that what cannas are???) available now. Skybird P.S. Jill, I just checked and you haven’t signed in on the Who’s Here thread yet this year! I’ll be looking for you over there! :-) |
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