A neighbor, who dabbles in gardening (not too much because of health issues, but I managed to get her to join my gardening club}, emailed me two days ago. She had found this plant at our local WalMart ! She said it was the only one there -- she was in there reasonably early in the morning. Unbelievable. I think that the truck just accidentally dropped this plant off and the rest were bound for stores much further south. I double checked with this WalMart and also made a trip today to the one in town. Nope -- the people in their garden dept., had never ever seen it. before and I even showed them a picture.
Ah, well --- (sigh); one of these days.