Finding houseplants

Day Lewin

Hi all. Does anyone know a good place in or near Dublin with a good range of houseplants for sale.
I am on the lookout for Araucaria Excelsa (Its a large conifer-ish looking pot plant) also called the Norfolk Island Pine
and also for a bit of Tolmeia
The latter is never offered for sale because everyone just gives each other scraps, off the plantlets that form on the upper side of the leaves, -- hence its common name of "piggyback plant"
But none of my friends has one right now!

All suggestions gratefully received

kylith

I'm pretty sure you can get Norfolk Island Pine in Johnstown garden centre: johnstowngardencentre.ie

looksee

There's a blast from the past, I haven't seen a piggyback plant in years, used to be all the rage, those and the ones with fleshy leaves that grew little plantlets all round the edges of the leaves, can't remember what they were called.

rje66

looksee wrote: »

and the ones with fleshy leaves that grew little plantlets all round the edges of the leaves, can't remember what they were called.

Bryophyllium daigremontianum
Aka mexican hat plant, , mother of thousands , by chance!!

Day Lewin

Thanks for the contributions folks

@looksee, that's the one! But it is also known popularly as "Devil's Backbone" while the nickname "Mother of thousands" is given to several other plants: principally Saxifraga Sarmentosa, that one with the plantlets dangling on tiny threads like baby spiders

NB If anybody has one of those, I'd love a couple of those babies, too! The tricolor form is charming and the plant is really pretty and useful as an easy trailer.

findersteve

They have it on their online gardenstore for €59.95
http://www.dyg.ie/garden-blog?page=1