I just bought one of each variety of toad lily they had at Plant Delights
today (at least, the purple and white ones), but am still looking for
certain others.

Big Bloomers has them for much less, BUT, they sell the Raspberry Mousse
tricyrtis, and that is only so colorful and spotty because it has a mosaic
virus, as some nurseries have verified and documented. (For the details,
Google the following: Paradise nursery tricyrtis virus .)

So, I don't want any tricyrtis from Big Bloomers. I want mine to remain
what they are supposed to be. That's why I won't buy them on the half-price
sale at Gurney's catalog sales either (they have Raspberry Mousee also).

In the 70s, everyone in the nursery business was raving about an attractive
new dieffenbachia, and it sold like hotcakes. Then growers realized it was
really ordinary dieffenbachia infected with a mosaic virus that caused it to
look very striking, but the infection was responsible for tremendous losses
in the industry, at least in central FL where there are a LOT of nurseries.
Don't want to go back there.

I am specifically looking for Amethystina and Empress. If you have seen
these cultivars anywhere in the area, where?

Thanks! laurie (Mother Mastiff)