Streptocarpus (common name: Cape Primose) are hardy cousins to the delicate African violet. Streps are beautiful houseplants that will provide many months of spectacular flowers in hues of blue, ...

Streptocarpus (Streptocarpus) are commonly known as cape primrose, but don’t confuse them with the common primrose (Primula vulgaris), a perennial plant you may have grown outdoors at home. While the ...

I don't know how old I was when I discovered that growing plants was not really difficult. Of course I had the luxury of parents who loved to garden and an indoor greenhouse in which to play around ...

Cape Primrose, botanically known as Streptocarpus, has leaves that resemble primroses, and was discovered near the Cape Province of South Africa in 1818. Members of the gesneriad family of about 130 ...

Streptocarpus hybrids, flowering pot plants that deserves more attention than they receive and which are easy to grow. Their trumpet-shaped blooms (in many pastel hues) often have frilled edges and ...

To produce new ornamental plants by combining Saintpaulia ionantha and Streptocarpus, two closely related genera of the family Gesneriaceae, protoplast fusions were accomplished. Various tissues were ...

Keeping houseplants is a great way to connect with nature during the many hours we spend working and relaxing in indoor spaces. Foliage plants are certainly soothing in this regard, but when indoor ...

Raised by Lynne Dibley of Dibleys Nurseries and exhibited at Chelsea for the first time, the flowers have yellow lower petals in striking contrast to the baby blue upper petals. The first year that ...