"Sacha" wrote

" RHS Garden Wisley
Don't forget, if you want to take one of the orchids from the Orchids
in the Glasshouse display home for a suggested donation (cash only),
pop along to the Glasshouse today or tomorrow between 1 -
2.30pm.http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Wisley/What-s-on "


Well that is a bit more sensible than Kew. When we went for a walk around
just after the orchid festival they were dismantling the displays and the
orchids were in a pile outside the glasshouse in the freezing weather. I
asked a gardener and he said they were all destined to be composted although
the expensive Vandas would be sent back to the nursery. So thousands of
Phalaenopsis were just thrown onto the compost heap when Kew are always
asking for money donations. Is it just me?
They could sell them off at a couple of pounds each and at least recoup some
of the outlay.

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Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK