Plants and compost

Does anyone know of good places to buy plants - especially 'indoor' pot plants - and potting compost.

 

List (small selection of places):
- Robinson's Mall - now moved to the back area near the escalators to the cinemas
- Valencia Town Square
- Valencia area roadside stalls
- Bishop Epifanio St
- Tabo Market (EJ Blanco St, near Provincial hospital)

 

i assume you mean 'indoor' potted plants.''

i dunno but most shade plants should grow indoors ok.

there's a lot of roadside plant venders on the upper end of the duma/valencia road and there's a huge plant vending area on the north east corner of the valencia plaza; you should be able to find most any tropical plant at either location. also check out apeke garden across from the n.e. corner of the plaza.

compost?
you can get vermicompost at green farms, i think i paid p250 for a 50kg sack about 5 years ago.
alex also has an EOM product and fish hydrolysate.

here's a map to the vermicompost plant;
Google Maps

the vermicompost facility is a few meters beyond the google map link. the road in to the facility is a little mysterious but turn off buñao rd at the ice plant and take the native/gravel rd to the end of the rd, keeping to the right. there are green farm signs on the building.

 

sorry about the map link: try this
Google Maps

 

In my country we call them 'pot plants' but I can see the confusion with a certain narcotic, so let's call them 'potted plants'.

I am most interested in orchids and used to grow them indoors in the UK - although they can be placed outside during the Summer (I rarely did that as 'Summer' was so short it made the effort almost pointless).

I had Phalaenopsis as they seemed rather easy to grow and would flower continuously for many months - these were commercially grown in heated greenhouses in Europe (at some cost) and so I was surprised therefore to find that here (at the plant place within Robinson's complex), where I assume the cost of production is very low, they are about two to three times the price I paid in the UK.

 

I think you might mean the roadside plant centre just at the City Limits - if so, then yes, I went there and they sell a very large bag of compost for P75 (I previously paid P50 for an (approx) 1kg bag at the plant centre within the outside space of Robinson's Mall) and it is sold DRY, so it means it is lighter to transport, does not mess up the car and you get a bigger volume after adding water at home. So thanks for your information.

Still looking for places which sell Orchids.

 

if you're up some adventure; about 5 years ago, i was at an orchard grower on a through road between the n. hiway and larena, maybe on buñao rd. or in that area. you could cruise the area asking at sari-sari stores or... alex at green farms might know.

also, there's usually a lot of orchid venders at the annual temporary christmas/holiday tent village.

 

And where is this 'village' located please?

 

i dunno for sure; it used to be in and around quezon park, taking up the parking spaces, but then i think it got moved to the open area between the go hotel and don bosco . i've only been to the quezon park site cuz that's where i usually park.