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Gotta have a butterfly-wing plant? Get it tomorrow

Posted Sep 24, 2010 by Loren Omoto

Updated Sep 24, 2010 at 07:50 PM

We got lots of calls and emails after Kim and Pumpkin showed off their cool new butterfly-wing plants —Christia obcordata. Everyone wanted one; no shops had them.

I got an email just a short while ago from Annie Sprague and Mitch Armstrong of Exotic Tropical Plants, which has a nursery in Palmetto and does a lot of shows. They got wind of the Dirty plant lust going on here, and told me they’ll have butterfly-wings at a plant sale at their home, corner of 14th Street and 39th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow.

The butterfly-wings are in 1-gallon pots and sell for $8. They’ll also have a few “mother” plants for sale. And they’ll have lots of other stuff:

“We specialize in rare and unusual tropicals, passion vines and other butterfly-friendly plants, landscape plants such as crotons and hibiscus in colors you don’t usually find,” Mitch writes. “We have some gorgeous Pipe Vines, Double Purple Datura, Plumeria Pudica, Areca Palms, White Bird of Paradise, Tibouchina heteramalla, Rangoon Creeper and more.”

I’ll see you there! (But not at 9, so leave me a plant! ) If you can’t make it, they’ll be at the Saturday Morning Market in St. Petersburg on Oct. 2 (9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Al Lang Stadium), and also at the Tropiflora Nursery Fall Festival in Sarasota next weekend.