Questions We Are Often Asked: African Violets
September Gardening: African violets are not so difficult to grow as some claim.
Today, the named hybrids of Saintpaulia ionantha run into thousands, including miniatures. Yet little more than a century ago the plant was unknown in cultivation, lurking on the forest floor at 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation in what is today Tanzania. But in the final years of the 19th-century that was the German colony of Tanganyika. There, in Tanga province in 1892, it was discovered by district commissioner Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire (1860-1910). He sent seeds back to his father, an amateur botanist in Germany.
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