Yo, Karin!

Aye, there are people in Toronto. I am one of them :-)

then there is Liliya, she's not on the forums but sells named varieties in Toronto torontoviolets.wordpress.com

TAVS (Toronto African violet society) has a sale end of September at the botanical gardens. If you go to the meetings, there are usually plants for sale or in the raffle.

and there is also the Lakeshore African violet society, which I don't belong to yet, so I don't know what they sell/trade and when. But their show was amazing and I bought a bunch of nice leaves there.

if you mail order, there is bloomlovers.

oh, and then there is the Facebook group I started. "African violet and gesneriad swap canada".

ok, so much for a quick FYI, tell us more about yourself. Where are you located, what are you looking for, what have you got to trade etc?

karin

Wow! That's a lot of places to check:) I'll definitely join your fb page! I'm still relatively new to growing these. I live in downtown Toronto at church and wellsely. I'll upload some photos of the violets that I have. Off hand I have kei-yoki, rob's dodo bird, pixie run, and pink bubblegum.

Interesting plants, though I haven't heard of pixie run. Pixie runaround and pixie runaround sport come to mind...

I'm way on the west end, long branch, wouldn't mind trading, but have to fix a bug issue first. Hopefully it'll be taken care of by September. (Else I'll have been growing out 200 plants for nothing)....

Karin

Pixie runaround. That's what it is:) it's a variegated mini trailer? It's finally starting to bloom:)

I tried to find the fb page but i can only find one called "african violet and gesneriad swap". no "canada" in it. can you send a link? By the way, I also have Silver and Gold african violet. Any others I had don't have names or I wasn't able to save them from a past mealy bug infestation:P

Here's the link!

I have pixie runaround sport (which is a chimera) - but have been looking for the original runaround ;-) yes, it's a variegated mini trailer, and quite a happy one!

Ohh I want one! Haha. Hanks for the link

I posted all of my photos in my other discussion "Is this an african violet". meant to put it here. Duhh

Lol, it happens... Nice plants!

i'd definitely be interested in pixie runaround and the red one you said you don't like all that much....

I just got a pesticide, so I will be treating everything this week. I know for sure my petrocosmea have soil mealies (lucky they're in a fish tank/terrarium), and some of the AV's did (I re-started everything). so this should wipe the slate clean and I should be able to share plants in good conscience in a month or so.

If you like girl leafed plants, I have a few, toronto belle, peppermint girl, Denver doll (it's variegated so it doesn't conform to description), Persian prince and mini minx, probably more - I have to check my list.

also a bunch of trailers.

not too many frilly/ruffly ones, which you seem to like ;-p

blue dragon may spare a leaf though.

And I have starts of supposedly yellow ones, if you're into those. Golden plume and sunkissed rose....

Ah well, send me a message either here or FB (more likely to see it there, I admit) and I can send you a link to my list....

karin

Did you see, there are currently three people on kijiji offering named african violets - one's in north york, one in mississauga/brampton, one near yonge and adelaide (if i remember correctly)....

i've dipped my collection once, two or three more treatments, and i'll be good to share plants too btw :-)

Wow Karin, that is a beautiful chimera (Pixie Runaround sport). The flowers are so large and the little leaves are so, well,,, little! Very beautiful! Rosie