One of the fun things that we did at 3600m (11,800′) in the Himalayas was make snow angels!  We thought that it would be particularly fun to try this now, seeing as we had loads of spare snow! As you can see, they’ve turned out quite well!  Who said school is no fun!? Especially in […]

Yay! School is closed which means a day off, playing in the snow… or does it? Unlike students, plants don’t like having a ‘snow day’ and as a result – plant people have to be in looking after them!  This, of course, doesn’t mean that there’s no playing in the snow. First we must check […]

Spring is the best time of year to repot and split orchids and at Writhlington spring starts early. One plant that needed drastic attention was this old plant of Odontoglossum cristatum. A lovely cool growing species from Colombia. It has been growing on the same piece of cork bark for about seven years and it […]

New year is a time we think about all the lovely people we work with around the world. So Happy New Year to our friends in Durban both at the Botanic Garden and at West Park School. Happy New Year as well  to the pupils and staff at the Erica Primary School in Cape Town, […]