Well, this day was penciled into our diaries a while ago and it’s finally dawned on us that it’s now quickly approaching! Our Orchid Celebration Evening is a great oppertunity for you to meet and get information from our growers of all ages.  We will have talks throughout the evening about recent expeditions, along with […]

Hello again everyone!  It’s been a while, but I’m pleased to be back to blogging!  A lot has happened in the past month (including a lot of work for me) so I’ve decided to condense it down into one – convenient post! Firstly I would like to say a big big big ‘Thank You’ to […]

This morning Simon Pugh-Jones and Zoe Barnes from the Durban team were interviewed on radio Somerset.

Well the tropical weather of Durban is a distant memory and the great new friends we made are 6000 miles away. We will never forget the amazing time we had but it’s back to work in the Writhlington Labs. Here we are at Tuesday’s Lab Club, sowing seed of Epidendrum radicans (the pod split in the school greenhouse […]

We have had an amazing day again in Durban. It started with a trip to the West Park School in Malvern on the outskirts of the city. We started with a school assembley where Simon and Lauren talked to the school. We then had a tour of the impressive permaculture work that the school is […]