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The problem at Exotica is mis-management and pure laziness on the part of the owner. He has no list of inventory. He puts his propagation efforts into plants with no idea of demand. Most local nurseries don't know he exists. If he simply would have supplied local nurseries with an availability list he would not be in the current situation.
The owner advertises the place as "organic" but the reality is that he is too cheap to care for the health of the plants. If a plant looks troubled, the owner will tell you the problem is "jet chem trails". Most of the plants are kept in shade to reduce watering costs. Upon taking a plant home you may find that it too weak for sunshine and after a while starts exhibiting symptoms of some harbored virus. Consequently anything you buy there should be treated with copper-ammonium or similar before you introduce it into your plant collection.
The main worker there is Leo, who is the only reason they didn't go into chapter 12 sooner. He and his brother have single-handedly cleaned-up and re-organized the property, turning it into more of what you would expect from a nursery and less of random collection of plants with roots breaking out of the pots and into the ground. If you buy anything there, you need to ask Leo if it is really a graft of the true cultivar or just some random seedling cross-pollinated by all the closely-packed plants. More often than not it is the latter.
The owner's mother is often there. She is nearly deaf and won't wear a hearing aid. Consequently, you always need to bring pencil and paper to communicate with her. Why she is on the premises in the first place escapes me. She constantly moves unmarked plants from propagation areas into the front ("so people can buy them") and now the identity of the cultivar is lost.
There is also another woman or two who works there on occasion. They know where the main sections of plants are but not too much about the plants themselves.
