Gesneriads Archives - Growing With Plants

EASTERN EUROPE REINVENTS A CLASSIC

November 12, 2013

Once as common as ferns in a Victorian Fernery, the Florist Gloxinia and Cape Primrose, (Streptocarpus) they fell out of fashion in the late…

A hardy gloxinia -Sinningia tubiflora

July 13, 2010

I think I have finally mastered growing Sinningia tubiflora, one of the many new ‘hardier’ gesneriads, those plants in the African Violet family, which…

Achimenes

November 4, 2007

A line-up of Achimenes showing the variety and diversity between various species and named varietites available. Isn’t it funny how even though one may…

thmells and thounds like Smithiantha

September 13, 2007

Smithiantha ‘Big Dots Rule’ This summer I decided to grow a number of more unusual Gesneriads, all members of Gesneriaceae, the family which includes…