Who doesn’t love to get home from a hard day at the coal face to find that your previously ordered plants have arrived? I have heard tell that are some strange folk out there who wouldn’t get quite as excited as me, but this could be apocryphal. A parcel is a wonderful thing and one containing horticultural jewels is even better.
This cardboard box arrived today from Fibrex Nurseries, it contains three different ferns, an abutilon, a correa and a grewia (no me neither). The plants are healthy and generous in size, they were packed immaculately wrapped in newspaper and bedded in shredded paper. Not a piece of plastic in sight. Great service, great ethos. Just perfect.
Off The Edge Gardening 
I bought 8 lovely pelargoniums from them last September, all lovely plants except one that died despite overwintering them all in the conservatory. Your ferns look much healthier than ones I have just taken delivery of! I have used several online nurseries and just beginning to understand which ones I prefer. And I so want a Correa, but have spent so much this year so far on new herbs, perennials and climbers. I shall put it on the list for next year 😀
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I’ve got some correa cuttings on the go, not this one which is C. backhouseana ‘Alba’ but a pink/yellow one that I can’t remember the name of at the moment. You are welcome to one if they root. 🙂
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The white one looks lovely. You must have the Correa ‘Marian’S Marvel’ The pink one ‘dusky bells’ looks rather nice too. If you do manage to get rooted cuttings then I would love one, but I might sneak one of the white ones onto my birthday list (even though that is not until October… ) 😉
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Correa schlechtendalii, I knew it was a dodgy name! Cuttings looking good, they are at a client’s and they say you can have one. 🙂
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What a wonderful company, no plastics! I would also get very excited about a post full of plants 🌱💗🌿
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It is a wonderful thing!
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How exciting! I am on the lookout for ferns, so will bookmark your post for future reference.
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I would Helen, I’ve certainly nothing but praise for them.
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That looks and sounds good to me. xx
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🙂 x
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I haven’t thought to try Correa cuttings, but will forthwith. I’ve planted two new ones this summer, and am waiting for them to flower. Hopefully soon.
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This was a fluke really because the mother plant had been blown out of the ground in the storms and after I replanted it I cut it back to give it more of a chance. Mum looks rather poorly still, the kids are looking fine!
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Yes, perfect. not fair. I just got a parcel that was put in the wrong mailbox. It was medication than men are embarrassed to talk about. I had to drop it back into the missorted slot.
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