Welcome to Dibleys' 2008 Chelsea Flower Show page.
Friday, 30 May 2008
Chelsea Gold! We're very pleased to announce that we've won another Gold Medal at this years RHS Chelsea Flower Show. That's now our 19th in 20 years! posted at 11:43
Friday, 23 May 2008
2008 Chelsea Collections. Have a look at our excellent value Summer Catalogue Collections including our Chelsea Collections and collections of the new streptocarpus varieties. > Click here to see the collections posted at 21:13
Miss Wales visits our Chelsea stand.
posted at 16:00
Photos from Chelsea.
Joe Swift with Lynne Dibley
The Chelsea Gold Medal
BBC Radio Wales interview
posted at 01:53
Thursday, 22 May 2008
19th Gold Medal for Dibley's at Chelsea Flower Show. Award winning North Wales based Dibley's Nursery, have won their 19th RHS Gold Medal to add to their extensive collection! This makes Dibleys the most successful Welsh nursery to ever exhibit at the show! Lynne Dibley said "This is our 20th Chelsea Flower Show and this year the response from the judges was overwhelmingly positive. We work very hard all year on new introductions and travel the country attending flower shows. A gold medal at Chelsea really is the culmination of all of that hard work. To win an RHS Gold is just the icing on the cake. Our display this year is quite different from previous years but it goes to show that one doesn't always have to stick to tradition to win a gold medal"
Around 250 streptocarpus and begonia plants grace the stand in the floral pavilion but Streptocarpus 'Alissa' is looking like the star turn! The first commercial yellow Streptocarpus ever seen at Chelsea, this variety has been bred on the nursery and is the result of over eleven years of specific breeding to achieve this colour. Yellow is a recessive gene in Streptocarpus so this has been the holy grail of Streptocarpus breeding for many years. 'Alissa' is named after Lynne's 11 year old niece.
The other two new plants are Streptocarpus 'Rebecca' and Streptocarpus 'Targa'.
Notes to Editors: * Lynne Dibley is available for interview *The Stand is located at GPD/4 *For further press information or to request images please contact Rosie Harkness @ Rose Tinted PR. Tel: 020 3076 1331 / 07958 704266 E: info@rosetintedpr.com *Dibleys Nursery is located at Llanelidan, Ruthin, North Wales, L15 2LG Tel: 01978 790677 Fax 01978 790668 Email info@dibleys.com
Three New Streptocarpus Launches From Dibleys www.dibleys.com
North Wales based Dibleys are the country’s leading breeder and grower of Streptocarpus, other Gesneriads and Foliage Begonia and for the Chelsea Flower Show 2008 they are debuting three new Streptocarpus.
A family run business which was started in 1976 began as a hobby, growing Streptocarpus and selling by mail order direct to customers. Today the core business is still Streptocarpus and they sell to over 200 Garden Centres and show specimen plants at all the top flower shows.
There will be approximately 250 streptocarpus and begonia plants on the stand in the floral pavilion but Streptocarpus 'Alissa' may prove to be the star! The first commercial yellow Streptocarpus ever seen at Chelsea, this variety has been bred on the nursery and is the result of over eleven years of specific breeding to achieve this colour. Yellow is a recessive gene in Streptocarpus so this has been the holy grail of Streptocarpus breeding for many years. ‘Alissa’ is named after Lynne’s 11 year old niece.
The other two new plants are Streptocarpus ‘Rebecca’ and Streptocarpus ‘Targa’. The former is a pale lavender with purple veining over three of the five neatly upturned petals, it grows as a medium sized strep’ and was bred by Lynne bringing the total number of Streptocarpus that she has bred and introduced to 44. Eighteen of the plants have received the prestigious Award of Garden Merit.
Streptocarpus ‘Targa’ is a good sized plant for the windowsill with deep purple velvety flowers and Chelsea Flower Show will be the first opportunity for the public to see this German bred plant.
Traditionally Lynne’s displays have been quite naturalistic but this year sponsorship by German ceramic company Scheurich has inspired her to use coloured glazed pots in a more creative way. 170 ceramic pots of various size, shape and colour will influence the whole feel for the exhibit. Lynne will also use aluminium as a backdrop in areas to add contrast to the very modern Scheurich designs and with the highly colourful plants the result will be more than vibrant!
Lynne and her Father Rex Dibley have received over 70 Royal Horticultural Society Gold medals in the last 20 years. The Chelsea medal tally is 18 Gold medals and 3 Anthony Huxley Trophies.
Lynne has just returned from her 4th plant hunting and photographic expedition to Zulu Natal in South Africa. She has been taking photographs for the reprint on her father’s best selling Streptocarpus book which will be on sale from the stand at Chelsea Flower Show. Her first trip to South Africa was with the help of the Merlin Trust who encouraged her to go and study Streptocarpus in the wild. Later visits were to discover some of the extreme conditions that Streptocarpus live in.
-Ends- Notes to Editors: Lynne Dibley is available for interview The Stand is located at GPD/4 For further press information or to request images please contact Rosie Harkness @ Rose Tinted PR. Tel: 020 3076 1331 / 07958 704266 E: info@rosetintedpr.com Dibleys Nursery is located at Llanelidan, Ruthin, North Wales, L15 2LG Tel: 01978 790677 Fax 01978 790668 Email info@dibleys.com
Chelsea Gold!
Joe Swift with Lynne Dibley
The Chelsea Gold Medal
BBC Radio Wales interview
