Natland Pleione

We have been lucky enough to have been nominated for the MyLocal awards for Cumbria Garden Centre/Nursery of the year. This is both a huge honour and opportunity for us to get some visibility and support for what we are doing and we would be incredibly grateful if you could take a couple of minutes to click on the link below and vote for us, and if possible share the link with others. Vote for Natland Pleione | My Local Awards I did contact Rick Astley to ask if he would co

Exciting times are upon me. I am working with a supplier to try and develop a testing process, suitable for us all to use at home that will identify the two major thorns in our collective Pleione growing backsides - Pleione Virus-Y (PVY) and Pleione flower break virus (PlFBV). I am aware that there are tests available for lots of other virus which can affect orchids, including Pleione, but the one that has been rampaging through collections and feeding the incinerators and co

We all have plants that we keep, that for some unknown reason are reluctant to flower, well this is one of mine - Pleione Eiger 'Turtle Dove' A delicate flower nodding gently in the greenhouse this morning. It must be 4 or 5 years since this last flowered for me. It has built up nice bulbs each year but no flowers, not until now.... Welcome back. There are lots of buds appearing now and the warmth of the last few days has really brough things along... Happy growing Stu

Exciting times....