Hi,

Thank you for generously offering leaf starts of such beautiful varieties of violets! I would love to have a few of your starts (especially the Russian red!) and would gladly pay shipping. Hope we can work something out :)

We're about a month out now ...

Haha, yes. Just wanted you to please keep me in mind/add me to your list (just found your other thread and will migrate there). Thanks, and cheers.

I received this "leaf propagation extra" labeled

Katy, this isn't Optimara Loretta. But its beautiful.

Thank you for your generosity. Please keep my in mind also and let me know how much postage you want. I can't wait to start growing these beauties!

Gail, I just happened to notice this is an old post from July of last year, but PM me about some leaves.

Thanks perle. I clicked on "FOLLOW" on your page but the "message" button won't come up. Try me.

Okay, I sent you a pm. Hope it goes through.

Looks like Lyon's Red Rocket.

A couple of my starts that I thought was Optimara Loretta turned out to be Lyon's Red Rocket too.

Unfortunately, I wasn't very disciplined with my labeling of my starts ...

I was going to say that it looks like Lyon's Red Rocket, there is a picture of mine in my ideabook called African Violets on my profile page. Aegis, how does your Loretta do for you? I special ordered leaves last year and have two plants, but no blooms yet.

No Loretta blooms for me yet. The plants seem to grow kind of slowly.

I think that all of my other starts have bloomed at least once.

Fortunately, I do have one Loretta starter with the identifying tag.

I have put my two Lorettas in two different locations to see if that makes any different. I have had mine a long time too, I am kind of disappointed in this one. I ordered Clementine leaves at the same time and both of the plants I got from those leaves are coming into bloom now.