When you’re just getting started collecting violets, one of the first questions you may have is, “Where do you buy your violets?” Here’s a list of my favorite violet sources. If this source is on the list, it means that I have ordered from them and had a good experience. When available, I’ll also include my unboxing video from each source.
Appalachian Violets
Hickory, North Carolina
Offers starter plants; standards, trailers, semiminatures, and miniatures
Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/usr/cvvioletry
Gary’s Violets
Portage, IN
Offers starter violets and streptocarpus
Linda’s Secret Garden
Groveland, Florida
Offers standards, trailers, semiminiatures, miniatures, and begonias
Lyndon Lyon
PO Box 249, Dolgeville, NY 13329-0249
This is the nursery of AV hybridizer Paul Sorano. They offer their own hybrids as well as other hybrid standards, semi-miniature, miniatures, trailers, and chimeras. Also offers a selection of Ukrainian hybrids, gesneriads, terrarium plants, rex begonias, and other houseplants.
Petals and Leaves Cutting Gardens and Nursery
1930 Moe Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926
Offers large standards, standards, semi-miniatures, miniatures, and trailer plants and leaves. Also offers plant care products, planters, and pots.
The Selective Gardener
6011 Martingale Lane
Brentwood, TN 37027
The online store for Optimara plants and products. Offers Optimara standards, miniatures, leaves, Optimara fertilizer, pots, and various plant care products. Also offers terrarium plants, ferns, fittonias, begonias, and kalanchoes
Woodland Blooms
Redgranite, WI 54970
Offers starter plants, large starter plants, and budding or blooming standards. Violet sizes offered include standards, semiminiature, and miniatures. Also offers episcias.
The Violet Barn
Naples, New York, 14512
Run by the hybridizers of the “Rob” and “Ma” lines. Offers blooming-sized plants including standards, semiminiatures, miniatures, microminiatures, trailers, chimeras and Ukrainian hybrids. Also offers streptocarpus, terrarium plants, houseplants, and gesneriads