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"solaara" wrote
can anyone tell me where I can buy paphiopedalum (ladies slipper)
orchids, .. The ones on line are expensive and they don't seem to get
them in the garden centres..!!!!!!!!!!!!solaara


I've recently seen some Paphs in a Wyvales GC at Windlesham amongst the
usual Phals (also had some Cattleyas and Dendrobiums) and there were lots in
the GC at Syon Park the other day so they are around if you look. Longacres
GC at Bagshot always has a good display and are notoriously cheaper/better
than most.

Is Syon park your natural habitate Bob? I was up there on Sunday doing a
rare plant fair! (always Easter Sunday apparently because the GC is shut)


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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea