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Exotic Orchids for your home: Chaotic Exotics; Enjoying Colorful Hydrangeas for Shady Gardens; Dave's Favs: Cuphea, Chaenorrhinum; Desert Big Horn Sheep
Exotic Orchids for your home: Chaotic Exotics
Jim Kotsybar is an accredited orchid judge and avid orchid collector. His nursery, Chaotic Exotics, specializes in exotic and unusual orchids plus stunning "blue" cattleyas. Many of the orchids seen today are easy to care for, providing blooms over a long period. Jim revealed with latest stunning hybrid today which he has since named Slc 'Crimson Chaos'. Jim is also founder of the Coastal Valley Orchid Society which encourages the public to explore a passion for orchids.
Chaotic Exotics, set within the flower and wine growing area of the Lompoc Valley/Santa Rita Hills Wine Region, is open by appointment.
To learn more or visit the nursery to purchase orchids seen today, please contact Chaotic Exotics.
Chaotic Exotics
5375 Campbell Rd.
Lompoc, CA 93436
805-736-0040
www.chaoticexotics.biz
To learn about enjoying, growing, and collecting orchids, check out these sites:
Coastal Valley Orchid Society
www.coastalvalleyorchidsociety.comAmerican Orchid Society
www.orchidweb.org/aos/
Dave's new greenhouse is a place to enjoy orchids, grow tomatoes or fresh salad greens, start seeds and
cuttings, or just relax among nature's living jewels. The greenhouse was an easy project to build in one
day using the innovative pre-installed brackets and panels, shipped directly to your door. The Mt.
Rainier Series greenhouse has lots of head room to accommodate large plants, hanging baskets or twining vines.
Sunshine Garden House
8'x12' Mt. Rainier Series
Call toll free for more information or to find a dealer in your area:
888-272-9333
www.gardenhouse.com
Special thanks to Mike Helle for coming out to help us build this gardenhouse for you to enjoy today!
Enjoying Colorful Hydrangeas for shady gardens
Gregg Lowery of Vintage Gardens offers one of the widest collections of hydrangeas in the country.
Via mail order, shop cultivars of the Macrophylla Mophead Hydrangeas seen today plus many diverse
species and cultivars to suit every garden. Hydrangeas are ideal for shady borders, patios or containers.
Located on the beautiful grounds of Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma, Vintage Gardens also offers a rich
array of antique and vintage roses.
Vintage Gardens
707-829-2035
www.vintagegardens.com
To visit the retail nursery at Garden Valley Ranch
Garden Valley Ranch
498 Pepper Rd.
Petaluma, CA 94952
707-795-0919
www.gardenvalley.com
Desert Big Horn Sheep
The footage of endangered Desert Big Horn Sheep provided by The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens.
To learn more about the sheep and the fragile desert ecosystem please visit the Living Desert.
The Living Desert
47-900 Portola Ave
Palm Desert, CA 92260
760-346-5694
www.livingdesert.org
Dave's Favs
Plants seen on today's show are available at independent garden retailers throughout the country and from select sources listed below:
Cuphea ignea
Cistus Nursery
22711 NW Gillihan Rd.
Sauvie Island, OR 97231
503-621-2233
www.cistus.com
Chaenorrhinum 'Blue Dream'
Native Son Wholesale Growers.
Arroyo Grande, CA
Please visit the Native Son website for a list of garden retailers
who carry fine Mediterranean, Native and drought tolerant plants.
www.nativeson.com
Additional plants seen on today's show courtesy of Monrovia Growers
Please visit their website for a list of retailers who carry fine handcrafted Monrovia plants
Additional information sources for today's show were provided by Pacific Horticulture.
Pacific Horticulture brings the best of West Coast gardening to readers quarterly.
Learn more and subscribe at www.pacifichorticulture.org
Dave's Levi Brand Denim Shirt courtesy of Heritage House
www.BoysSuits.com
Dave's Big Sur Jade Maori Punamu Necklace by Justis Daniels.
Available at Big Sur Local Color Gallery,
www.bigsurlocalcolor.com
