Almost every retail nursery I've ever been into grows Heliconia. Jessie Durko, out off Griffin Road west of the Turnpike has dozens of varieties. All along Flamingo Road, but mostly near 595, there are nurseries with great selections.

Land sylvia gordon,signature tree farm,boyton botanicals,excelsa gardens,jesse durkos,marposa,b and c tropicals.all of these grow them.I dont know how many are in your area but they can tell you who they ship to in your area

Right around the corner from Jesse Durko is Heliconia Paradise, he has an extensive collection. That's assuming he is still there. I know the nursery was for sale, he wants to retire to Hawaii.

Searle Brothers sale is this week-end and he has a few varieties that are nice mature sizes.

I wish we had so many great places to buy tropicals. There is not much around here, but MRT garden center, and it has all the usual stuff, once in awhile something different. There are a few backyard operations, but you have to know somebody who knows where they are. Of course, there's Crowleys, but that's so far away from me.

Thanks - I'm in Davie now, so these all seem to be right around the corner. I'll have to go exploring. I did find an interesting nursery on Griffin near 205 Ave - Joe's Nursery (Joe looks to be an indian). Got some trees from him really cheap.

I'm 5 min away from Joes and if you want a big honking clump of Bahai jacquinii just let me know and I will dig it up for you.

Coffeemom, you are very generous - YES, I would love to have a Bahai jacquinii.

I'm off of Orange and Nob Hill. Please let me know how we can get together.

I have a black-stemmed heliconia, noid to me, that you may have a start of if you'd like to bring a shovel and dig (can't dig myself with artificial hip and other one having same birth defect). You can see the black stems here at this link. Oh, and I'm near SR 84 in Fort Lauderdale.

Girlsaylor

Here is a link that might be useful: black stem heliconias

Girlsaylor, thank you so much for your offer - I'll have to check to see if I can get someone to help me dig :)

Oops - I forgot to write - my computer dies and I had to re-register with a new name. I was "wert9wert" and am now "smiles99).

We can get together sometime after columbus day email me
sjkdavis at bellsouth dot net.

If your in florida a good place is plantfinder.com.Alot of the growers wont sell to you unless your at least a landscaper but if they have something you want they will always tell who they've shiped to in your area.

Thanks CoffeeMom and Chuck.

Hey Coffeemom, I had to google columbus day to find out when it was :) :) :). Will email after the 13th.