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Dec 9, 2015 11:14 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
I did find a source for Bidens pilosa (aka Bidens alba), commonly known as Spanish Needles. I was checking my bookmarks and remembered the Florida Native Plant Society is always directing people to this website for the Florida Wildflowers Growers Cooperative. They don't have Frogfruit, but they do have a lot of hard to find native plants for those interested. Here's the page for Spanish Needles, but you guys know you can click up top to go to the main page: http://www.floridawildflowers....

Seriously though, I can't let anyone pay for something so common. The Suncoast chapter of the FL Native Plant Society sets up twice a year at the USF plant festivals. I've gotten some great plants at great prices from them. I love what they do. But sometimes I see them selling things that I know I can literally go dig up on the side of the road. Like my Spiderwort! So I kind of roll my eyes at some things, but if they can get someone to buy it, more power to them. And more money for their club and their cause! They do frequently sell out of plants. I usually rush to the bromeliad club first and make my way back to the native plant society later and sometimes there are already plants that are sold out. That's great though, that so many people are demanding native plants. Until we create a market for them, there won't be a market. Still, no one should have to buy Spanish Needles seeds. They're everywhere! I picked one off my quilt today! Let's not even talk about my shoelaces! Rolling on the floor laughing

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