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Billbergia 'Pink Patches'--WOW!

12 years ago

I saw this plant at the shop at Strybing Arboretum (SF Botanical Garden) and did not buy it. It was $25 and I try to avoid spending so much on a single plant.

However, I think I've decided I "need" this plant, if anyone has a pup. I have nothing to trade in the way of Bromeliads, but plenty of others. Lots of cool growers, but not exclusively. Examples: Passifloras membranacea, 'Mission Dolores', x exoniensis, bogotensis, etc. Deppea splendens, D. obtusiflora, Pseudomiltemia filisepala, a gazillion Begonias, 5 kinds of Agapetes, etc...

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splinter1804
12 years ago
I think you missed a good deal at $25 as it's a nice mature plant.

All the best, Nev.
mark4321_gw
Original Author
12 years ago
It is a stunning plant. However, I try to avoid paying that much at Strybing. You would be amazed at the plants (4 or 5) that I bought at their half off sale in December, for a total of $12.

I think I spent $25 there twice. Once for a 1 gallon Passiflora parritae, the other for Salvia libanensis, which I think was only grow there in the U.S. when I bought it.

I have been contacted by someone willing to sell me this plant at an extremely reasonable price.
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