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"Charlie Pridham" wrote
"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)


I worked there for a season decades ago when there was a summer only Bank
within the GC. It was Cogswells GC then.
Still have a look around when in the Isleworth/Brentford area which we have
been a lot lately (long story).
Sorry I missed you there last weekend.
Doing any more fairs up this way, the Saville Garden perhaps?


I am up at Sunbury in September (6th) doing a clematis festival with the
British Clematis society and at Chenies Manor in Bucks 19th July, but we
will not be back in Syon Park untill next Easter
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea