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On The Ledge

Episode 238: Dendrobium orchids and more with Kevin Wigley

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

I visit orchid grower Kevin Wigley to find out more about this fascinating family, including Dendrobiums, Coelogyne and Psychopsis.

For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/orchids-dendrobiums

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0:00.0

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1:00.9

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1:39.9

Hello and welcome to On the Ledge, the podcast about houseplants, and don't worry, you can still listen even if you have no window ledges in your home.

1:55.5

Yes, this is the house plant podcast, started way back in 2017, bringing you house planty chat and info pretty much every week since then.

2:03.1

And in this week's show, I visit Sun Colfield, which is on the outskirts of Birmingham, to chat to orchid grower Kevin Wigley about some of the plants in his collection.

2:14.8

It has occurred to me that I have not done enough episodes on orchids in this podcast over the last five and half years.

2:24.8

So that's something I'm going to try to put right over a couple of episodes.

2:31.1

And that's because this is an incredible family of plants, many of which make fascinating specimens

2:37.6

to grow indoors or in a greenhouse. So join me as I chat to Kevin Wiggly about his collection

2:45.9

and some of his favourite plants. Kevin, I am joining you in your orchid room.

2:53.5

It's busy in here.

2:55.7

That's one word for it, yes.

2:57.2

Where did this all start, Kevin?

2:59.4

How did you get to having a whole room full of orchids?

3:03.0

Oh, wow.

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