The following retail plant nurseries and garden centers are known to carry a good selection of gingers. Some are small one-person operations, and may not be open regular business hours, so you should be sure to call them before visiting. For a more complete listing and commentary on retail nurseries located in the Gulf coast states, go to Maradee's list of nurseries.

NORTH FLORIDA

LIZ AND RICHARD'S BIRDS AND BLOOMS, 13855 NE 47 Avenue, Sparr, FL (between Gainesville and Ocala), Phone 352-620-8681, Email birdandblooms@yahoo.com
From Liz: "Generally open 7 days a week, unless we have a show (those are usually Fri-Sun) maybe once a month, or unless one of us has a doctor's app. So we tell people to stop by and if the gate is open, then I am somewhere around :) . If someone is making a special trip out our way then I always recommend that they call ahead of time, so they do not make a wasted trip out here. If someone calls or emails I can give directions, if you need more info for your site just let me know, and thank you again."

OLIVE ROAD NURSERY, 1615 Olive Rd, Pensacola,FL 32514, Phone: 904-477-9862

JUST FRUITS AND EXOTICS, 30 St. Francis Street, Crawfordville, FL 32327, 904-926-5644, Brandy Cowley-Gilbert, e-mail justfruits@hotmail.com.
Recently expanded into growing and retailing gingers, very good selection, good quality and excellent prices. This place is a little out of the way, but well worth the trip. Lots of other unusual plants besides gingers, too. Call first, hours are irregular.

TALLAHASSEE NURSERIES, 2911 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL, 850-385-2162
A large nursery and garden center, usually has a pretty good selection of gingers. Prices are average or above.

THE GAINESVILLE TREE FARM at Adams Eden Nursery, 15321 NW State Road 121, Gainesville Florida (Just 6 miles north of the intersection of Highway 441& SR 121) Telephone (904) 418-0484 (Website no longer active)
One of the best selections of gingers at any retail nursery in Florida.

CENTRAL FLORIDA

OUR KID'S TROPICALS, 17229 Phil Peters Road, Winter Garden, FL 34787, 407-877-6883, Larry Shatzer, e-mail ourkidstro@aol.com Catalog available.
This is a fascinating place to visit, located on a large lot behind a residence. The place feels like a jungle with lots of growing tropical plants, birds and reptiles. Larry grows a variety of tropical plants and hybridizes some of his own gingers. Near Disney World, and it's like a side attraction.

JENE'S TROPICALS, 6831 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg, Florida 33710, Phone (727) 344-1668, Fax (727) 381-4415, E-mail jtropical@ibm.net
On line list of 11 gingers and will do mail order.

CROWLEY NURSERIES AND GARDENS, 16423 Jomar Rd., Myakka City, Florida (10 miles east of Sarasota), 941-322-0315. Mr. Crowley specializes in gingers.

ACE HARDWARE, State Road 3, Merrit Island, Florida
According to Russ at Aloe1023@aol.com, "Believe it or not, they have had quite a selection of gingers of all kinds, and the folks that run the nursery seem to beknowledgeable about them."

SOUTH FLORIDA

NATURAL SELECTIONS EXOTICS, 1401 SW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315 PHONE (954)523-2428
Just last August (Aug 2002) Enid and Sam opened a new nursery near the corner of Davie Blvd. and Andrews Ave. in Ft. Lauderdale. Enid has been well known to her customers for years for her wonderful eBay listings and her mail order site. She seems to have a knack of finding the unusual and she offers them to her customers are reasonable prices and top quality. She carries a wide selection of gingers including many that are hard to find elsewhere. Any ginger collector living or just visiting in South Florida should not miss a chance to stop by there. Check the web site or call for their hours, I think they are ususally busy packing and shipping plants to their mail order and eBay customers on Mondays and Tuesdays.

TROPICAL PARADISE EXOTIC PLANT NURSERY, 5060 SW 76 Ave., Davie, FL 33328, PHONE 954-791-2029, FAX 954-791-7858, e-mail Joseph Fondeur, tpnursery@AOL.com.
I visited this place once and was really impressed. They had a great selection and reasonable prices.

ZONE TEN NURSERY, P.O. Box 970478, Miami, Florida 33197. Our location is 18900 S.W. 186 Street, Miami, Florida (no mail service at this address), Fax: 305-255-8052. , e-mail: zten@bellsouth.net , Phone: 305-255-9825
"Zone Ten Nursery is a retail operation that originated in the early 80's with Tom and Linda White's collection of rare and interesting plants gathered from tropical and subtropical areas around the world. We are currently propagating over 240 species and varieties of plants - everything from Florida natives to flowering gingers and heliconias to rainforest trees. These plants are available to the general public at our nursery at very reasonable prices. Sorry, we do not ship plants. If you are planning a trip to the nursery and would like to review the plant sizes and pricing, you may request an electronic copy of our current price list via e-mail."
Has listings for many Alpinias, Costus, and others. No mail order sales. There is a separate Ginger Page with photos and descriptions.

Richard Lyons Nursery, 305-251-6293, richard@rarefloweringtrees.com , 20200 SW 134 Ave., Miami, FL 33125 A small selection of gingers.

Greendale Nursery, Inc. 28300 SW 177 Ave, Homestead, Florida 33030, E-MAIL sales@greendalenursery.com - Listings on their website for a good selection of Alpinias, Costus, Curcuma, Hedycychiums, Globbas and Kaempferias.

LARIMER'S EXOTIC GARDENS, 12102 Stringfellow Rd, Bokeelia, FL 33922-2865 (near Ft. Myers), 941-283-2990
This listing was provided to me by Bill, CTK8@aol.com, who says they have a good selection of gingers.

TROPICAL WORLD NURSERY, 1 Tropical World Way, Boynton Beach, FL 33437, 561-732-8813
This listing was provided to me by Bill, CTK8@aol.com, who says they have a good selection of gingers.

CARRIBEAN EXOTICS, Boynton Beach, FL 941-498-5687

JESSE DURKO'S NURSERY, 5151 Sw 70th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, phone 954-792-2297

EXCELSA GARDENS, 12839 25th St N,Loxahatchee, FL 33470-4724, 561-790-3789

GARDINO NURSERY, PO Box 83-2024, Delray Beach, Fl 33483, Phone: 1-888-323-1333 0r 561-272-1416 FAX: 561-495-7383, E-mail rareflora@aol.com. They have several gingers listed and are starting to offer mail order sales.

LOUISIANA

GARDEN DISTRICT NURSERY, 2504 Government St, Baton Rouge, LA 70806-5405, 225-383-3514

TEXAS

ANOTHER PLACE IN TIME, 1102 Tulane Street, Houston, TX 77008, 713-864-9717
I stopped in here while on a business trip to Houston. They have a nice collection if not a large one, and prices are very good. My only complaint, they do not carefully mark or identify the plants by genus and species.

FERRILL'S FOLIAGE, Noreen Ferrill, 355 COUNTY ROAD 2288, CLEVELAND, TEXAS 77327
281-592-5067 -jbavery@quixnet.net
Call before coming. Located outside of Cleveland Texas which is about 60 miles northeast of Houston and about 70 miles west of Beaumont. "I'm a country nursery growing lots of things including gingers. Growing over 60 varieties of ginger".

AMERICAN BULB SEED FARM - Kris Fleming has a very nice collection of gingers for sale here, including a wide variety of summer flowering Curcumas. It is located just northeast of Houston on highway 1960, address is 6249 FM 1960, Dayton, Texas 77535. Phone number is 936-258-1815. Email address is americanbulb@yahoo.com

The Plumeria People, 910 Leander Drive, Dept. PP, Leander, Texas 78641
This nursery is now under new ownership. Richard Eggenberger was the original owner. Harry Leuzinger is the new owner and manager of the Plumeria People. Harry says, "We still do quite a few tropical plants but we have limited our shipping to plumeria and few southern bulbs. Our retail site is a place of beauty when it's hot." e-mail address is: leuzinger@jumpnet.com

TEAS NURSERY COMPANY, INC has five locations in the Houston area and offers several gingers for sale by mail order. Catalog Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1603 Bellaire, TX 77402-1603 Toll Free Number: (800) 446-7723 In Houston area: (713) 664-4400 FAX # (713) 295-5144

NORTH CAROLINA

I sell ginger's at our local farmers market. My email address is: hortperson@msn.com . My address is Bill Caudill, Caudill's Nursery, 1416 Woodland Drive, Charlotte, NC 28205

CANADA

TROPIC TO TROPIC PLANTS, Delta, BC, Canada, 604-943-6562


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