Saintpaulia: African violets remain popular houseplants and more than 2,000 cultivars are available

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"We get a lot of what we call collectors, who tend to be lookingfor something unusual, such as variegated foliage. Semi-miniature, miniature and trailing varieties are all very popular. "In garden centres you tend to only be able to find the regular,standard sizes, I'd say we tend to sell a reasonable number of unusual Saintpaulia. We sell them as plugs, rather than flowering plants. We propagate them ourselves and tend to source a lot from the US, where there is a lot of new breeding going on.