Dibleys Nurseries

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On the seventh of this month, my wife and I went on what we now call our annual pilgrimage, we went to the Dibleys Nurseries about thirty miles from our house. Once again when we entered the great greenhouse we were mind-boggled by the wonderful sight of all the colorful plants. I wanted to take hundreds of pictures but was just stunned by the sight and hardly took any. I will post as many as I can in this blog, just to give you all an idea of what it was like. I personally didn’t think it was as good as last year but I think they were recovering from sending so many plants to the Hampton Court show that was on from the 6th to the 11th. Even though I,me stocked up with all my plants at home I just couldn’t resist purchasing some more, and Ann just had to have a couple that took her fancy and when in the big greenhouse she exclaimed loudly that she just had to have one plant that caught her eye. Lynn Dibley who overheard her came over and said she could have it and took it off to the shop for us to pick up on our way out. This plant is called, Streptocarpella Boysenberry, its very much like Streptocarpella Saxorum. The plant is not advertised in the catalogue, and I didn’t see another on show so I hope Lynn didn’t get into trouble selling it to us.
There is no charge for going around the greenhouses, only a charge if a person wants to go around the gardens, as it was drizzling we just spent our time looking at the plants and chatting to the workers who were very busy cleaning and sorting among the plants. For anyone who is smitten by Streptocarpus, then I fully recommend a visit to this enchanting place, that is if you can find it because it’s not signed too well and one can easily get lost in those narrow, one car wide lanes.

• 30 Jul, 2010
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