Species Specific Forum : Growing Orchids and Hybrids

trey.sanders · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:36 pm Post subject: London Orchid Show 2010

Does anyone have a vendors list for this year's show?

I will be attending on Saturday, 20 March is anyone else going on that day?

Cheers
Trey

Debbie · Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:12 pm Post subject:

Anil and I plan to go on the Saturday, Trey. Hope to see you there.
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Freyja · Seedling Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 157 Location: Essex

As I work in Waterloo I have got myself a preview ticket and intend to go back again on the Saturday.

I have been trying to dig up a list but can't find it this year. It is normally on the RHS site but I find it doesn't tend to go up until Feb.
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Debbie · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

Hope to see you there too Freyja, we'll all have to find a way of identifying ourselves. I found Trey quite by chance a couple of years ago, can't rely on chance every time.
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Freyja · Seedling Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 157 Location: Essex

We could all wear an orchid Laughing

I have got to admit I am really looking forward to this one as I get to leave the the other half at home (not an orchid fan yet) and he hates ending up as the pack horse for all the plants I buy.

I will keep an eye out for the vendor list for you though Trey
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admin · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:42 pm Post subject:

tom · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject:

i remember when i bumped into Debbie,aaaah memories Laughing

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Freyja · Seedling Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 157 Location: Essex

Bill
I will be taking a supermarket shopping trolly if I can get it up the escalators at Victoria station Laughing

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Debbie · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject:

It was a very soft bump Tom! Very Happy

Freyja, that's ideal, there's no-one to see what your spending. Don't worry about the stairs, just go round to the other entrance.
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trey.sanders · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:09 am Post subject:

Hi Debbie and Freyja, hopefully I will see you there.

I have noticed some vendors have mentioned their attendance on their own websites.

Cheers
Trey

Freyja · Seedling Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 157 Location: Essex

It will be good to meet new people, they always give me new ideas on what to buy/grow next Laughing

I'm looking forward to meeting you all this time Smile

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Debbie · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:03 am Post subject:

I can give you great advice on what to kill next Freyja, and how to do it! I've come to the conclusion that almost every orchid that flowers for me does so in desperation - a last gasp before they turn up their toes completely. I'll try for a while after I've moved, in the hope that I'll have better - or at least more stable - conditions and therefore more success, but if I don't I will seriously consider giving up.
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Freyja · Seedling Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 157 Location: Essex

[quote="Debbie"]I can give you great advice on what to kill next Freyja, and how to do it! quote]

Yes please Debbie! Laughing

I have lost my share of plants for one reason or another, mostly because I think my house is warmer that it is. I am going to have to try more with the cooler growing plants with just a couple of small/compact orchids in a warm cabinet I have set up.
So I think I am already an expert on the killing (but can always do with more advice on the subject) it's the growing of them that I'm still having problems with Sad

Saying that I will still buy inappropriate plants in the hopes I can get them to gorw, we all do it every now and again Rolling Eyes

Don't give up though, you will only see a plant going cheap in some shop and buy it and it will all start all over again, Orchids are just as big an addiction as chocolate or smoking.

Cat
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Debbie · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:28 pm Post subject:

Oh dear. Yes, you're so right. There were a couple of pretty phals in Sainsburys yesterday afternoon - I found myself examining them to see if any were reduced... There is no hope. Rolling Eyes

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Saila · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:44 am Post subject:

Are you two trying to find a cure for "Orchiditis"? At least you Debbie should know the answer: once you've got it you cannot get rid of it - not at least before you got rid of your bank account... Laughing

Saila, smitten by the same illness
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