News &c
Society shop The Royal Horticultural Society is opening a houseplant shop in the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent this October. It's going to be called RHS The Plant Space and will include - alongside houseplants - 'a carefully curated selection of RHS lifestyle and homeware products', according to the presser. There will also be fortnightly workshops, too.
Plant plants Fascinated to read in the RHS Orchid Review about a new paper on orchid epiphytism - the ability for plant species grow on other plants, usually trees. The study published in the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology found epiphytism evolved separately 14 times within the orchid family, although 95% of epiphytic orchid species all share the same common ancestor.
Vote plant Plant Heritage's 2023 Threatened Plant of the Year shortlist includes the large rhizomatous Begonia 'Lettonica' and Tradescantia 'Quadricolor' (if you're thinking, no way is this threatened, I have one, you need to read this piece by tender Tradescantia National Collection holder Avery Rowe. Voting opens on July 3.
Upping sticks After a decade, houseplant shop Forest London are moving premises from Frogley Road in East Dulwich to North Cross Road, opening mid-July. Read the announcement here. In other shop moves, Plymouth-based Nook Houseplants are moving from The Barbican to Ebrington Street
Served rare Tickets are available to book now for A Planty House: The Rare Plant Market event on August 12 at The Hackney Social in London. The event is a @aplantyhouse collab with @aplantprescription and @plantedaddiction: you can expect rare plant sales, live talks, plant raffles and a bar. Tickets are free but you need to reserve in advance.
Plant recall Ficus 'Ginseng' plants were withdrawn from sale in certain stores in France after the Meloidogyne enterolobii parasite was found in the substrate. More info on the recall here.
Get Hornsea I adore vintage china, so I am chuffed to see Magpie Gifts are resurrecting these absolutely classic vintage Hornsea plant pots. So good! (Did you know all the pots pictured in the plant pics in my book Legends of the Leaf are based on actual pots owned by me and the illustrator Helen Entwisle? Hear about it here.
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